Articles and publications

An interesting and thought-provoking new article from Professor Donald Kochan that is definitely worth your time: The [Takings] Keepings Clause: An Analysis of Framing Effects from Labeling Constitutional Rights, 45 Fla. State U. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2018). 

As the title suggests, Professor Kochan doesn’t quite care for the phrase the “Takings Clause” when

Clare Trapasso has a Realtor.com piece on what a Justice Kavanaugh could mean for real estate, property, and land use issues, “What Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Could Mean for Real Estate,” where she correctly notes that “while commentators have been scrutinizing Kavanaugh’s record on hot-button topics like abortion and immigration, there’s been

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Here are the cases and other items I either spoke about or mentioned at today’s Transportation Research Board‘s 57th Annual Workshop on Transportation Law in Cambridge, Massachusetts:

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Here’s some of the things we’re reading or reviewing today, focused on the legal scholars and takings (with the last one being of general interest):

  • Michael Pollack, Taking Data, 86 U. Chi. L. Rev. ___ (2018) (“This Article proposes a new approach to regulating government investigations of data that has been shared with ISPs

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For those of you who subscribe, check your inboxes for the latest issue of the University of Hawaii Law Review.

Most worthwhile article in our view: Adam N. Miller, Up in the Air: The Status & Future of Drone Regulation in Hawaii.  (Sidebar: Mr. Miller will be one of our firm’s summer associates

Check out this recent article by lawprof Timothy Mulvaney, “Non-Enforcement Takings.” We’re used to situations in which government regulation results in a takings claim, but Professor Mulvaney asks about cases in which the government’s inaction is argued to result in a taking.

Here’s the abstract:

The non-enforcement of existing property laws is

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Here’s the printable brochure with the details on the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute in Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. We’ve plugged the program before so we won’t do so again, except to say that you really should attend because (1) it’s a very good program that won’t take much of your time (fly in for

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Here’s an article (“Murr v. Wisconsin: The Supreme Court Rewrites Property Rules in Multiple-Parcel Regulatory Takings Cases“), which we authored along with a colleague, published in February 2018’s Zoning and Planning Law Report, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Murr v. Wisconsin, the case about the “larger parcel” in

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Here’s the (draft) article from our poriton of the first panel at the 2017 Brigham-Kanner Conference, “Back to the Future of Land Use Regulation.” (Also posted on SSRN here.)

This is an expanded version of our talk (listen to the audio here) during the Conference during which the William

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For you land-users out there, be sure to check your inboxes for the link to the latest issue of The Urban Lawyer, the law review published by my section of the ABA, the Section of State and Local Government Law. With articles on privacy and public real estate records, neighborhood opposition to zoning changes