Be sure to check out Northwestern Law Review’s symposium issue on “Reimagining Property Rights in the Era of Inequality.” which brought together “scholars of legal history, property, tax, land use, fair housing, environmental law, natural resources and water rights, family law, education, and constitutional law, to highlight new scholarship at the intersection of
Environmental law
NC: Generally-Applicable Impact Fee Is Subject To Nollan/Dolan/Koontz
We recommend you review the North Carolina Supreme Court’s opinion in Anderson Creek Partners, L.P. v. County of Harnett, No. 63PA21-1 (Aug. 19, 2022). It’s long (70 page majority, plus 19 pages of concurring and dissenting opinions), but worth your time because the majority concludes that legislatively-imposed fees, applicable to all, are “exactions” that…
Registration Underway – 19th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (Sep 29-30, 2022)
There’s still space for you to join us — preferably in-person, but remotely if that is not possible for you — at the 19th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, September 29-30, 2022, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg.
The American Law Institute was kind enough to post a notice about the Conference…
Ye Olde Law 608: Eminent Domain & Property Rights, S5E1 @ William & Mary Law
Is there a more appropriate place at which to study property rights and dirt law than William and Mary Law School? After all, it is a stone’s throw from Jamestown, the place where there’s a good argument the concept of property law and property rights first took hold in the New World. As…
Here’s The Full Speaker And Topic List For The Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (Sep 29-30, 2022)
By now, you know that the 19th Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference is set for September 29-30, 2022, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia (register here – space is limited – fee ranges from free to $195 – a bargain!). And you know that our colleague Jim Burling is this…
Cal App Channels Dickens’ Mr. Bumble: Bumblebees Are Fish Under Cal’s Endangered Species Act
A “fish” need not be “connected to a marine habitat” after all.
You remember that classic lawyer joke?
A company is on the hunt for a new CEO and decides to undertake the search from within existing management. The hiring committee schedules interviews with the company engineer, the company accountant, and the company lawyer. The…
“Something is very wrong with this picture.” Cal Ct App Calls Out CEQA (“fearsome weapon”), Tiburon’s “official hostility,” And “combined animus of two levels of local government”
Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows Tiburon, California, even if you’ve never stepped foot there. Yes, that Tiburon. Well, the beat goes on: the Agins litigation wasn’t the only time that the town and its residents combined forces to try and draw up the drawbridge and prevent the building of more…
Hawaii Land Use Law Conference, May 25-26, 2022, Honolulu – Join Us!
It’s back! After a hiatus on the in-person program, the bi-annual Hawaii Land Use Conference is back in-person (see here for a sample of one of our prior presentations at this conference).
May 25 and 26, 2022, downtown Honolulu.
The full agenda and speaker list has not yet been published, but here’s a summary…
Death By A Thousand Days: Presenting “The CEQA Gauntlet” Report
See if you can navigate this maze.
Even if you are not in California, this thing called “CEQA” (the California Environmental Quality Act) is something you might have heard of. An environmental reporting statute on steroids, CEQA is, according to this new report from the Pacific Research Institute, the main reason why California is…
2022 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain And Land Valuation Litigation Conference, Scottsdale: You Should Have Been There!
After a two-year absence in which we went remote, in the last week of last month (our usual spot on the calendar, between the playoffs and Super Bowl), we once again met in-person for the American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference.
Approximately 200 lawyers, judges, legal scholars, appraisers, law students…




