Whatever you might celebrate at this time of year — Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or whatever (or even if you don’t celebrate anything except good cheer and gift giving) — here’s our suggestion for the gift for the takings nerd in your life: Professor Ilya Somin’s fantastic book, “The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City
Look what arrived in the mail, a copy of the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law’s recently-published Municipal Law Deskbook, edited by our friend and colleague, Oregon’s Bill Scheiderich.
We received a gratis copy because we authored the chapter on Regulatory Takings. The book is designed as a quick reference guide
We’ve covered this topic before (see here, here, and here), but we haven’t heard much about it lately. But thanks to this new article by colleague Dwight H. Merriam, we can get back up to speed.
In “Eminent Domain for Underwater Mortgages: Already on the Way to the Bottom of
A new article worthy of your time from The Urban Lawyer, the law review published by the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law: “The Power of Eminent Domain in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Should Common Interest Communities Be Compensated for the Loss of Asssments,” by James R. Conde.
The
To put on your to-buy, to-read list: lawprof Ilya Somin‘s forthcoming book about the Kelo case and the aftermath, available on June 5, 2015. (We’re in the process of organizing some book talk events with Prof Somin in the fall, and if you have suggestions for venues or want to host one, let us
It’s not often that we say a law review article is a “must-read.” But this one definitely is, especially for all you regulatory takings mavens: David L. Callies, Through a Glass Clearly: Predicting the Future in Land Use Takings Law, 54 Washburn L. Rev. 43 (2014). A pdf of the article is posted here
Worth reading: “Legislative Exactions after Koontz v. St. Johns River Management District,” an article by colleagues Luke Wake and Jarod Bona, recently posted to SSRN. Here’s the abstract:
Decided in June, 2013, Koontz v. St. Johns River Management District settled a long-running debate among scholars as to whether the nexus test &mdash
If you, like us, went to law school to avoid things like this:
then perhaps this recently-published paper is not going to be your cup of tea.
But seriously, folks, this one might be worth your time, even if you are numbers-challenged, because it is a look at the “holdout” issue from the standpoint of
The use of eminent domain for energy transmission corridors has become a hot topic lately. See, for example, the following posts:
A big thank you to our friend and colleague from Detroit, Dan Dalton, who sent us a recently-published book which he authored, “Litigating Religious Land Use Cases.”
This book discusses how to litigate such a religious land use case on behalf of a religious entity pursuant to the Religious Land Use and