Articles and publications

Update: some have reported difficulty with finding the How Appealing link below. Here’s a direct link to the issue.

The latest issue of Appellate Issues, the quarterly publication of the ABA’s Council of Appellate Lawyers is out, and features our article, “Preparing an Effective Appellate Brief – The Expert View.”

Also included

Regulatingparadise Professor Patricia E. Salkin (of the Law of the Land blog) has written this review of Professor David Callies’ Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawaii (2d ed. 2010). The review is in the latest edition of the Urban Lawyer (43 Urb. Lawyer 1107 (2011)), the law review published by the ABA’s Section of

In our law review article on Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Fla. Dep’t of Environmental Protection, 103 S. Ct. 2592 (2010), we predicted that “the fractured opinions in the case will be a boon for academics who may continue the search for the ‘takings quark’ (if not woodchucks) in the pages of law

5330215_big To those who were able to join us this evening for the celebration of the publication of Eminent Domain – A Handbook of Condemnation Law, thank you.

The University of Hawaii Law School sponsored the reception, and it was good to see so many colleagues and friends in attendance. U.H. put the event

5330215_big Hold the date: on Tuesday, December 6, 2011, from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m., the University of Hawaii School of Law is sponsoring a reception at the Pacific Club, in Honolulu to celebrate the publication of Eminent Domain, a Handbook of Condemnation Law by the American Bar Association.

Since so many of the people who worked

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.