The Vermont Law Review has published an article authored by me and my Damon Key colleagues (and fellow law bloggers) Mark M. Murakami and Tred Eyerly. The article is an essay with our thoughts about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No.
Articles and publications
Monday Round Up
We’ve been meaning to post links to these items for a while:
- New Survey Date on Public Attitudes Towards Kelo and Economic Development Takings (from Volokh Conspiracy).
- Call For Papers: Planning, Law, and Property Rights – Fifth International Conference, University of Alberta (May 25-28, 2011)
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New Article: Recent Developments in Challenging the Right to Take in Eminent Domain
The Urban Lawyer, the law review published by the ABA Section of State & Local Goverment Law has published my article Recent Developments in Challenging the Right to Take in Eminent Domain, 42 Urban Lawyer 693 (Summer 2010). It summarizes several of the recent court decisions on public use and public purpose, although…
Materials And Links From “Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning” Seminar
Last Friday, I was on the faculty of Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning, a seminar on Hawaii’s unique water law.
My session covered “Water Rights, Property Rights and the Law of Settled Expectations,” and provided a crash course in Hawaii land use law, the interrelationship between land use law and water law…
Call For Eminent Domain Photos For Upcoming ABA Book
Here’s your chance to be a well-known “eminent domain photographer.”
The ABA Section of State and Local Government Law will soon be publishing a Handbook on Eminent Domain, and is need of photographs to illustrate it. We’re looking for high resolution, not copyrighted pictures for the various chapters to illustrate “public purpose,” “inverse condemnation,” “pre-trial,&rdquo…
Of Woodchucks and Prune Yards: A View of Judicial Takings From the Trenches
My Damon Key colleagues Mark Murakami and Tred Eyerly and I have posted our forthcoming essay Of Woodchucks and Prune Yards: A View of Judicial Takings From the Trenches on SSRN here, containing our thoughts on Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 (June 17, 2010), the…
Of Woodchucks and Prune Yards: A View of Judicial Takings From the Trenches
My Damon Key colleagues Mark Murakami and Tred Eyerly and I have posted our forthcoming essay Of Woodchucks and Prune Yards: A View of Judicial Takings From the Trenches on SSRN here, containing our thoughts on Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 (June 17, 2010), the…
“Takings International” Panel Report
My ABA State & Local Government Law colleague Andy Gowder has posted on his blog Grounded, a report and summary of the recent Miami panel discussion of Takings International: A Comparative Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Compensation Rights (Mar. 2010; $95 regular price; $75 for SLG members).
Takings International is a comparative study…
New Book: At the Cutting Edge 2009: Land Use Law from The Urban Lawyer
One of the benefits of doing your own blog is that every now and then you are allowed to engage in a little shameless self-promotion (what’s this “every now and then?”).
Well, here goes.
The ABA has announced the forthcoming publication of a new book by the State and Local Government Law Section: At the…
New Article On Florida Beach Judicial Takings Case
The most recent edition of State & Local Law News has an article summarizing the arguments in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 (cert. granted. June 15, 2009).
That case, which has been argued and is currently awaiting disposition by the Supreme Court, asks whether a state…

