Articles and publications

ZPLR_11_2011Here’s an article I recently published in the Zoning and Planning Law Report, Recent Developments in Regulatory Takings Law: What Counts as “Property?”, 34 Zoning & Planning Law Report (Thomson | West 2011).

If you subscribe to ZPLR, look for it in the mail (and if you don’t, you should).

If you are

Cover_42_3_ The Urban Lawyer, the law review produced by the ABA Section of State & Local Goverment Law has published my article Recent Developments in Condemnation Law: Public Use, Private Property, 43 Urban Lawyer 877 (2011).

The article “summarizes recent cases in which the issue was the power of condemnors to take property, including

Wade-front-page-small Thanks to the folks at the Environmental Law Institute, who have allowed us to reprint an article from a recent Environmental Law Reporter by William W. Wade, Ph.D., a resource economist with the firm Energy and Water Economics (Columbia, Tennessee). Bill is a frequent author and speaker on the Penn Central issue, and he’s

SLGN_cover_9_2011 The Fall edition of State & Local Law News features my article on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Carrigan and Guarnieri. From the Introduction: 

The U.S. Supreme Court decided two First Amendment cases this Term of special interest to attorneys practicing state and local government law. In Nevada Comm’n on Ethics v.

5330215_big The American Bar Association’s Section of State & Local Government Law has just published a new book on eminent domain fundamentals: Eminent Domain – A Handbook of Condemnation Law (available for preorder here).

I was privileged to author two chapters (Prelitigation Process and Flooding & Erosion), and my Damon Key colleagues Mark

Here’s what we’re reading this fine summer Monday:

What we are reading today:

George Mason U. lawprof Steven J. Eagle is familiar to regular readers of this blog for authoring the seminal treatise Regulatory Takings, now in its fourth edition. Talk takings and you will invariably be dealing with his scholarship.

Here’s the latest: Professor Eagle has recently posted a new paper, “Urban Revitalization and Eminent

VTLREV_coverAs we noted here (when we posted our article), the latest issue of the Vermont Law Review deals with the U.S. Supreme Court’s “judicial takings” case, Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, 130 S.Ct. 2592 (June 17, 2010). 

In eight essays, the authors of several of the many amicus