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Land Use Prof Blog

By Paul Boudreaux

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

Upcoming Brownfields Webinar

Posted on October 14, 2010
From my colleagues at UGA's Fanning Institute: Brownfields Redevelopment in Georgia Keeping Projects Moving Forward in an Uncertain Economy October 26, 2010 11:00am - 12:30pm FREE WEBINAR Register at: http://www.fanning.uga.edu/work/brownfields/brownfields_webinar...

Salkin on Social Networking and Land Use Planning Regulation

Posted on October 13, 2010
Patricia Salkin (Albany) has posted Social Networking and Land Use Planning Regulation: Practical Benefits, Pitfalls and Ethical Considerations, forthcoming in the Pace Law Review. The abstract: This article explores how social networking sites have been used or might be used...

Malloy on Real Estate Transactions and Entrepreneurship

Posted on October 13, 2010
Robin Paul Malloy (Syracuse) has posted Real Estate Transactions and Entrepreneurship: Transforming Value Through Exchange, Indiana Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 1105, 2010 . The abstract: This article grows out of a paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of...

Reiss on First Principles for an Effective Federal Housing Policy

Posted on October 13, 2010
David J. Reiss (Brooklyn) has posted First Principles for an Effective Federal Housing Policy, forthcoming in the Brooklyn Journal of International Law. The abstract: Federal housing policy is heavily funded and made up of a morass of programs. This article...

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Miller on Strategic Default

Posted on October 13, 2010
Meredith R. Miller (Touro) has posted Strategic Default: The Popularization of a Debate Among Contract Scholars, Cornell Real Estate Journal, Vol. 9, Forthcoming . The abstract: A June 2010 report estimates that roughly 20% of mortgage defaults in the first...

Vegas, Sodom, Gomorrah, and other bogeymen

Posted on October 13, 2010
I have been put in the unenviable position of defending Las Vegas against the claim that it is a racy, uncultured, highly sexualized theme park. I can't. But I can say that having lived in Las Vegas for 11+ years,...

Shirley Sherrod Gives First Speech Since Controversy

Posted on October 13, 2010
As I mentioned in a previous post, former head of Georgia Rural Development for the USDA Shirley Sherrod spoke Saturday night in Gainesville, Georgia. The occasion was a banquet celebrating the 60th Annivesary of the Newtown Florist Club, a Land...

Brown & Williams on Rethinking Adverse Possession

Posted on October 12, 2010
Carol Necole Brown (North Carolina) and Serena Maria Williams (Widener-Delaware) have posted Rethinking Adverse Possession: An Essay on Ownership and Possession, published in Syracuse Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2010 The abstract: In the wake of the present real...

Is Vegas a Sodom and Gomorrah Theme Park?

Posted on October 12, 2010
Contiuning in our Las Vegas theme, I ran across an article in the October issue of Smithsonian magazine by someone who dislikes Vegas even more than I. Journalist J.R. Moehringer lived in Vegas while collaborating on a book with Andre...

Richard Nagareda, RIP

Posted on October 11, 2010
Incredibly sad news: Professor Richard Nagareda has passed away, unexpectedly. Here is the Vanderbilt press release. His passion for teaching and scholarship has inspired students, lawyers, and scholars in land use as well as his own fields of mass tort,...

Peterson on Demystifying MERS' Land Title Theory

Posted on October 11, 2010
Christopher Lewis Peterson (Utah) has posted Two Faces: Demystifying the Mortgage Electronic Registration System's Land Title Theory, forthcoming in the Real Property, Probate, & Trust Law Journal. The abstract: Hundreds of thousands of home foreclosure lawsuits have focused judicial scrutiny...

Prum & Catz on Greenhouse Gas Emission Targets and Mass Transit

Posted on October 11, 2010
Darren A. Prum (Nevada-Las Vegas) and Sarah Catz have posted Greenhouse Gas Emission Targets and Mass Transit: Can the Government Successfully Accomplish Both Without a Conflict? The abstract: President Obama along with Congress has made it clear that there is...

Malloy on Adam Smith in the Courts of the United States

Posted on October 10, 2010
Robin Paul Malloy (Syracuse) has posted Adam Smith in the Courts of the United States, Loyola Law Review Vol. 56, p. 33 (2010). The abstract: Be it on topics of property, contract, commerce, trade, tax, legal history, or other matters,...

Nanda & Pancak on State Minimum Service Requirements for Real Estate Brokers

Posted on October 10, 2010
Anupam Randa (University of Reading) and Katherine A. Pancak (Connecticut--Business--Center for Real Estate & Urban Economic Studies) have posted Real Estate Brokers? Duties to Their Clients: Why Some States Mandate Minimum Service Requirements, published in Cityscape, Vol...

Korngold on Globalizing Conservation Easements

Posted on October 09, 2010
Gerald Korngold (New York Law School) has posted Globalizing Conservation Easements: Private Law Approaches for International Environmental Protection, forthcoming in the Wisconsin International Law Journal. The abstract: For the past thirty years nonprofit organizations have revolutionized open space and habitat...

Blumenthal & Turnipseed on the Polling Place Priming Effect

Posted on October 09, 2010
Jeremy A. Blumenthal (Syracuse) & Terry L. Turnipseed (Syracuse) have posted Is Voting in Churches (or Anywhere Else) Unconstitutional?: The Polling Place Priming (PPP) Effect, forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review. The abstract: A substantial social science literature has...

CityCenter - New Urbanism in Vegas?

Posted on October 07, 2010
We're having a little run of Las Vegas related posts this week, so I thought I'd post an excerpt from the recent New Yorker article on CityCenter: The complex is called CityCenter, and it is the biggest construction project in...

Ruhl on Ecosystem Services and the Clean Water Act

Posted on October 07, 2010
J.B. Ruhl (Florida State) has posted Ecosystem Services and the Clean Water Act: Strategies for Fitting New Science into Old Laws. The abstract: This Article explores the administrative reform potential that exists for integrating new knowledge about ecosystem services into...

EPA Announces Registration for 2011 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference

Posted on October 06, 2010
From Roberta White at EPA: Conference registration is now open for the 10th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference, which will be held on February 3-5, 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina.The multi-disciplinary program will include over 100 sessions and...

Lefcoe on the Uses and Abuses of Tax Increment Financing

Posted on October 05, 2010
George Lefcoe (Southern California) has posted Competing for the Next Hundred Million Americans: The Uses and Abuses of Tax Increment Financing. The abstract: Demographers predict that the US population will grow by one hundred million in 2050. Newcomers will settle...

Speaking of Las Vegas...

Posted on October 04, 2010
If you are in the running for one of the positions Ngai's previous post references (or, for that matter, just visiting Nevada's most populous city), be careful when considering where you stay. If you're not, then you might just be...

Fischel on the Persistence of Localism in Zoning

Posted on October 04, 2010
William A. Fischel (Dartmouth, economics) has posted The Evolution of Zoning Since the 1980s: The Persistence of Localism. The abstract: Zoning is the regulation of the use of land by local government. Although it is the most jealously guarded municipal...

Hiring at UNLV

Posted on October 01, 2010
UNLV is looking to fill openings in property and related courses, including land use, real estate, and environmental law. I'm happy to talk to folks about living and working in Las Vegas. Ngai Pindell Here's the announcement:UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS...

Lucy's UVa Report on a Different Path to a Housing Rebound

Posted on September 30, 2010
William Lucy (Virginia--urban & environmental planning) has authored a report titled A Different Path to a Housing Rebound. From the UVa press release: September 24, 2010 ? Changing demographics are the main cause of today's housing surplus, according to new...

Lawson-Remer on Security of Property Rights for Whom?

Posted on September 30, 2010
Terra Lawson-Remer (New School University) has posted Security of Property Rights for Whom? The abstract: Protecting the entitlements of some inherently requires preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. Yet much recent research regarding property rights and economic...

The Passing of Ken Groves...

Posted on September 30, 2010
Sorry about the recent dearth of posts. Here in Montgomery, we recently lost our visionary planning director Ken Groves after a short battle with cancer and its been a trying time. Here is an article that discusses the great planning...

A Report on the Impacts of Deepwater Horizon

Posted on September 30, 2010
I've blogged before about an informal "2nd Friday Symposium" held by the River Basin Center here at UGA. I wasn't able to attend the most recent event, so I asked Land Use Clinic student Greg Raburn to report. Here's his...

Mirow on the Social-Obligation Norm of Property

Posted on September 29, 2010
M.C. Mirow (Florida International) has posted The Social-Obligation Norm of Property: Duguit, Hayem, and Others, Florida Journal of International Law, Vol. 22, pp. 191-226, 2010 . The abstract: This article discusses and analyzes the sources and methods used by Leon...

Zasloff on the Secret History of the Fair Housing Act

Posted on September 29, 2010
Jonathan Zasloff (UCLA) has posted The Secret History of the Fair Housing Act. The abstract: The dominant scholarly consensus holds that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 was ?toothless? and devoid of enforcement; in the words of the pre-eminent scholars....

Planning the Future of Your Farm

Posted on September 28, 2010
Last Thursday I attended a workshop on "Farm and Estate Transition and Conservation Easements,"sponsored by the Madison-Morgan Conservancy at the Burge Plantation outside Madison, Georgia. The audience was a mix of landowners and lawyers interested in helping farm owners conserve...

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