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
As 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
Since this is the season for self-congratulatory industry awards, we can’t overlook one of our industry’s highest honors, the Zoning and Planning Law Report Land Use Decision Awards (aka the “ZiPLeRs”). For those of you who do not subscribe to the Zoning and Planning Law Report, the “strangest, or at least more dramatic” land
U. Hawaii law student Stewart A. Yerton has published a comment in the most recent issue of the Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal, “Procedural Standing and the Hawaii Superferry Decision” How a Surfer, a Paddler, and an Orchid Farmer Aligned Hawaii’s Standing Doctrine with Federal Principles.”
From the Introduction:
This paper will
To all of you who attended the first day of the Hawaii Land Use Conference today, thank you. As promised, here are the items I discussed during my two sessions:
What we’re reading today:
The ABA has announced the forthcoming publication of a new book by the State and Local Government Law Section: At the Cutting Edge 2010: Land Use Law from The Urban Lawyer, edited by my colleague Dwight H. Merriam, and which is “[a]n essential resource for practitioners, planning professionals and students, this book provides