Zoning & Planning

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We’re in Detroit the rest of the week at the Mercy Law School for the venerable Land Use Institute, now in its 32nd iteration.

Planning Chair Frank Schnidman has assembled a great faculty including out Detroit colleague Alan Ackerman (above, talking about takings liability for flooding), and we’ll be spending the time talking inverse

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For those of you who subscribe, check your inboxes for the latest issue of the University of Hawaii Law Review.

Most worthwhile article in our view: Adam N. Miller, Up in the Air: The Status & Future of Drone Regulation in Hawaii.  (Sidebar: Mr. Miller will be one of our firm’s summer associates

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The William and Mary Law School has announced the recipient of the 2018 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize, Cardozo School of Law Professor Stewart E. Sterk.

He will receive the prize at the 15th Annual B-K Conference in Williamsburg, October 4-5, 2018

Sterk’s publications span a wide variety of areas, ranging from property

Space is filling up, but there’s still time to join us later this month in Detroit for the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute (April-19-20). 

We’ll let program Planning Chair Frank Schnidman explain all the reasons why, and we’ll add only these points: (1) it’s a very good program that won’t take much of your time

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This fall, I’ll be teaching a new course at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Here’s the description of Property Rights: Law and Theory (Law 608) from the course catalog:

Property rights and property theory have been essential components of Anglo-American law for centuries, and the protection of the right of

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Here’s the printable brochure with the details on the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute in Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. We’ve plugged the program before so we won’t do so again, except to say that you really should attend because (1) it’s a very good program that won’t take much of your time (fly in for

For those of you who have not recently attended the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference (just wrapped in Charleston, planning Palm Springs 2019), here’s a small sampling of the kind of thing we do.

It’s U. Virginia lawprof Molly Brady talking about the U.S. Supreme Court’s regulatory takings decision in

The last time the U.S. Supreme Court faced Williamson County in a merits case, the property owners made the mistake of not challenging that case’s “state procedures” requirement directly. An exchange with Justice O’Connor went like this; from the transcript:

Justice O’Connor: And you haven’t asked us to revisit that Williamson County case, have