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By Paul Boudreaux

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 11:17:06

Happy Halloween: Top 10 Haunted Homes in U.S.

Posted on October 31, 2010
From the Zillow Blog comes this entry: Top 10 Haunted Homes in U.S. Here's the list: 1. Winchester House, San Jose CA 2. Lizzie Borden House (you know, the girl with the axe who gave her parents 40/41 whacks), Fall...

Designing Tomorrow Blog

Posted on October 29, 2010
I've previously blogged about the National Building Museum's exhibition Designing Tomorrow: America's World Fairs of the 1930s. Now I've learned that the project has an official blog: the Designing Tomorrow Blog. Looks like a great way to learn more about...

Four Year Old Bicyclist Found Potentially Liable in Woman's Death

Posted on October 29, 2010
Here's The New York Times version of a story that I know is getting lots of play. Usually I'm one to give judges the benefit of the doubt but, in this case, my first reaction is, "Seriously?!" The suit that...

Owley on Changing Property and the End of Perpetual Conservation Easements

Posted on October 28, 2010
Jessica Owley (Buffalo) has posted Changing Property in a Changing World: A Call for the End of Perpetual Conservation Easements, forthcoming in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal. The abstract: Increasing environmental problems, including those associated with climate change, highlight the...

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Kelly on Eminent Domain: Justifications, Limitations, and Alternatives

Posted on October 28, 2010
Daniel B. Kelly (Notre Dame) has posted Acquiring Land Through Eminent Domain: Justifications, Limitations, and Alternatives, from the RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PROPERTY LAW, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010. The abstract: The primary functional justifications for eminent domain...

Stanford Law Creates Luke Cole Professorship

Posted on October 28, 2010
Stanford has created the Luke Cole Professorship in Environmental Law and Directorship of the Environmental Law Clinic. Deborah Sivas, who has been director of Stanford's environmental clinic since 1997, is the first Cole Professor. From the story on Stanford's website:...

The Effects of Aging and Auto-Centric Planning...

Posted on October 27, 2010
The Detroit Free Press recently ran an interesting article discussing how auto-centric development could be a big problem as our population ages and becomes increasingly less able to operate autos. If that happens, then there may be quite a few...

Crude Justice screening at South Texas

Posted on October 27, 2010
South Texas College of Law will be hosting a screening and discussion of the documentary film Crude Justice, produced by the Alliance for Justice, on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 4:00 (rm. 314, with refreshments!). The film chronicles the plight of...

Smith on Water as a Public Good Under GATT

Posted on October 26, 2010
Bryant Walker Smith (NYU) has posted Water as a Public Good: The Status of Water Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 17 at 291 (2009). The abstract: Is water a...

PIELC - Save the Date and Suggest Panels

Posted on October 26, 2010
From John Bonine re: University of Oregon's annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference: Turning the Tides: Creating a Green and Clean Future 29th Annual PIELC: March 3-6, 2011 The 2011 PIELC Co-Directors are currently planning an outstanding conference...

53 Minutes of Fun...

Posted on October 25, 2010
That's how one friend described the new documentary called "The Parking Lot Movie". I've been watching it this afternoon for free over at the PBS website and I tend to agree. If you are looking for a somewhat alternative view...

Salkin on Ethics in Land Use Issues 2009-2010

Posted on October 25, 2010
Patricia Salkin (Albany) is obviously trying to make the rest of us feel unproductive. She has posted her latest article, No Protectable Property Interest in Making Land Use Decisions and Other Ethics in Land Use Issues 2009-2010, from The Urban...

Saxer on Planning Gain, Exactions, and Impact Fees

Posted on October 25, 2010
Shelley Ross Saxer (Pepperdine) has posted Planning Gain, Exactions, and Impact Fees: A Comparative Study of Planning Law in England, Wales and the United States, from The Urban Lawyer, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2000. The abstract: Land development projects often...

Klass on Climate Change, Natural Resource Development, and Renewable Energy

Posted on October 23, 2010
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota) has posted Property Rights on the New Frontier: Climate Change, Natural Resource Development, and Renewable Energy, forthcoming in the Ecology Law Quarterly. The abstract: This Article explores the history of natural resources law and pollution control...

"So You Want to Go to Law School"

Posted on October 22, 2010
WARNING: This post is blatantly non-land use related. This morning in class my students mentioned this YouTube video. Using a animated film-making software called "Xtra Normal" (Slogan - "if you can type, you can make a movie). "So You Want...

2010 National Preservation Conference--Austin

Posted on October 22, 2010
Next week the National Trust for Historic Preservation holds its annual National Preservation Conference in the weird city, Austin, Texas, from Oct. 27-30. Looks like a great event, with the program available online. Featured speakers include New Yorker architecture critic...

Sheff on the Residential Landlord's Duty to Mitigate

Posted on October 22, 2010
Jeremy N. Sheff (St. John's) has posted A Tale of Two Cities: The Residential Landlord's Duty to Mitigate in New York, forthcoming in the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, Vol. 25 (2011). The abstract: The 2008 decision of...

Vermont Law's New Land Use Clinic

Posted on October 21, 2010
From a VLS media release: Vermont Law School has opened a new Land Use Clinic to train the next generation of land use lawyers and policy-makers who will work on a growing array of social, economic and environmental challenges across...

Too Dangerous to Walk Across?

Posted on October 20, 2010
The above diagnosis would be a real problem for a "crosswalk" since their primary purpose for existing is to faciliate the safe pedestrian crossing of busy roads. What happens though when the crosswalk and the street are not considered in...

Salkin on Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Land Use for Local Governments

Posted on October 20, 2010
Patricia Salkin (Albany) has posted Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Land Use for Local Governments, New York Zoning Law and Practice Report, Vol. 11, No. 2, September/October 2010. The abstract: Over the last two years a number of state level...

Owley Lippman & Levy on Preservation as Mitigation under CEQA

Posted on October 20, 2010
Jessica Owley Lippman (Buffalo) and David C. Levy (Morrison & Foerster) have posted Preservation as Mitigation Under CEQA: Ho Hum or Uh-Oh?, published in Environmental Law News, Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 18, 2005. The abstract: Many local, state, and...

Climate Change Conference at USC

Posted on October 20, 2010
From Cinnamon Carlarne: The University of South Carolina School of Law invites you to attend the forthcoming conference entitled, ?Three Degrees of Separation: Exploring Linkages between International, National, and Regional Climate Policy.? The conference will bring together leading thinkers to...

Ole Miss Announces EJ Writing Competition

Posted on October 19, 2010
From David Case: The American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (ABA-SEER) and the University of Mississippi School of Law are planning a national Environmental Justice Symposium at the Ole Miss Law School in Oxford, Mississippi on April...

Walmart Goes Urban (Kind Of)...

Posted on October 18, 2010
Long derided as the antithesis of sustainable design, Walmart stores are typically surrounded in a sea of asphalt parking with, at most, some decorated facades designed to give off the feeling that its anything more than a suburban megastore. Well,...

Power e-book on Constitutional Limitations on Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations, and Governmental Transactions

Posted on October 18, 2010
Garrett Power (Maryland) has posted Constitutional Limitations on Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations and Governmental Exactions (2010 Edition). This is a freely-available electronic casebook, searchable in PDF format. The abstract: This electronic book is published in a searchable PDF format...

Lund on Salazar v. Buono and the Future of the Establishment Clause

Posted on October 18, 2010
Christopher C. Lund (Wayne State) has posted Salazar v. Buono and the Future of the Establishment Clause, forthcoming in Northwestern Law Review Colloquy, This short Colloquy essay reflects on the Supreme Court's recent decision in Salazar v. Buono, 130 S...

Salkin on Ethics for Land Use Attorneys

Posted on October 18, 2010
Patricia Salkin (Albany) has posted Relationships, the Rules of Professional Conduct and Land Use: Ethical Quagmires for Land Use Attorneys, published in the Real Estate Law Journal (2010). The abstract: Much has been written about ethics in the land use...

Parking Problems...

Posted on October 15, 2010
One of the major tenets of Traditional Neighborhood Developments is to replicate the on-street parking you find in many urban areas. This helps slow down traffic which, in turn, provides a safer pedestrian environment. Historically though, some fire departments have...

Call for Papers & Commentary

Posted on October 14, 2010
You may have noticed that there has been an upswing in the number of new article abstracts posted here on the blog recently (in addition to the heated Las Vegas debate). I suspect that's because we are in the aftermath...

Levitin and Wachter on Information Failure and the U.S. Mortgage Crisis

Posted on October 14, 2010
Adam J. Levitin (Georgetown) and Susan M. Wachter (Penn--Wharton, Real Estate) have posted Information Failure and the U.S. Mortgage Crisis. The abstract: This paper argues that during the housing bubble, housing finance markets failed to price risk correctly because of...

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