Materials And Links From “Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning” Seminar

Last Friday, I was on the faculty of Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning, a seminar on Hawaii’s unique water law.

My session covered “Water Rights, Property Rights and the Law of Settled Expectations,” and provided a crash course in Hawaii land use law, the interrelationship between land use law and water law, and the limitations of the public trust doctrine.

Other sessions included “Hawaiian Water Rights – Where Culture and the Law Merge,” “Amendments to the Instream Flow Standards in East and West Maui,” and “County of Hawaii Water Use and Development Plan.” Also on the faculty were my Damon Key colleague Christi-Anne Kudo Chock; Dr. Lawrence Miike, Commissioner on the State Commission on Water Resource Management; and Lawrence Beck, Civil Engineer with the County of Hawaii Department of Water Supply. Dr. Miike is a physician and attorney, and the author of Water and the Law in Hawaii (2004).

Here are links to some of the cases and other items I spoke about:

• Regulating Paradise – Land Use Controls in Hawaii (2d ed. 2010), by Professor David L. Callies

• The Massachusetts case on the public trust vs. land court title

• Law review article on Hawaii’s law of vested rights and equitable estoppel

 If you could not attend and would like to purchase the materials or the audio recording, go here.