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By Paul Boudreaux

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

Beware: "Zombie Buildings Lurk Ahead"...

Posted on December 06, 2009
Well, the housing crisis now has a new addition to the default lexicon: Zombie Buildings. Sounds pretty scary, eh? Actually, this type of zombie might be even worse than the Night of the Living Dead version. Why? Because these ghouls...

Snow Day in Texas

Posted on December 04, 2009
Hard to believe, but I'm watching the snow come down in Houston. It's official: Houston this morning broke a record with the earliest snowfall ever recorded in the city's history. Texas is a big state (just ask a Texan) and...

(In)Famous Chinese Things...

Posted on December 04, 2009
When someone says "Chinese" as an adjective I typically think of food or maybe checkers. Rarely though do I think of synthetic building material. That should probably change now that Congress and some of the nation's leading plaintiff law firms...

Slate's More Humorous Take on "Stop the Beach"

Posted on December 04, 2009
Dahlia Lithwick, one of my favorite U.S. Supreme Court observers and probably one of the wittiest, dove into the debate this week over the merits of Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection following oral arguments...

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NYT: "Court Bars New York?s Takeover of Land for Columbia Campus"

Posted on December 04, 2009
For those of you who believe the courts are failing to provide an meaningful boundaries for eminent domain use in New York, check out this article on the New York Times website. This case is heavily influenced, and yet seemingly...

Remember Those Cases About Debtors Prison?...

Posted on December 04, 2009
What does a complete land use and development implosion look like? This story from the Guardian about Dubai's continued problems gives a good hint: Creditors of Dubai World are expected to reject a standstill agreement proposed by the company, threatening...

Titus' Take on Stop the Beach Oral Arguments

Posted on December 04, 2009
I have to say, Jim Titus is on the ball and he does his homework. Here's his follow up e-mail to me about Stop the Beach: I got into the oral argument yesterday at Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida...

Sea Level Rise in Georgia

Posted on December 03, 2009
As promised yesterday, today I'm blogging about sea level rise research and modeling being done here at University of Georgia's River Basin Center. (I've been privileged to work and be housed with the RBC for the past several years, and...

Stop the Beach analysis

Posted on December 02, 2009
So the oral arguments in perhaps the biggest property/land use case since Kelo were today. Check out Will Cook's earlier post for some of the news articles about the case. Ben Barros has a great post on the Property Prof...

Sea Level Rise & Local Planning

Posted on December 02, 2009
The co-editors of this blog recently got an interesting e-mail from Jim Titus, an eminent EPA scientist who has been researching sea level rise for many years. He was co-author of one of the first EPA-funded studies on sea level...

Florida Beaches Head to SCOTUS

Posted on December 02, 2009
Howard J. Bashman, editor of How Appealing, an informative blog devoted to appellate litigation, published this collection of links this morning to the popular press about an upcoming regulatory takings case--the first of the Roberts Court. This has special relevance...

Beran on Modern Public Space

Posted on December 02, 2009
City Journal has posted Michael Knox Beran's Can the Polis Live Again? The modern world has withered public space and its virtues. From the intro: In 1958, Hannah Arendt published The Human Condition, her book?part panegyric, part lamentation?on what she...

Pennington-Cross on Duration of Foreclosures in the Subprime Mortgage Market

Posted on December 02, 2009
Anthony Pennington-Cross (Marquette University - Dept. of Finance) has posted The Duration of Foreclosures in the Subprime Mortgage Market: A Competing Risks Model with Mixing, forthcoming in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 40, No...

UGA Working in the Public Interest Conference/Panel on EJ

Posted on December 02, 2009
From the student organizing committee of UGA's annual WIPI conference. Note below that there will be a panel on environmental justice issues. The 5th Annual Working In The Public Interest Conference Save the Date! UGA Law?s Working in the Public...

Pops and Scrapes

Posted on December 01, 2009
During my recent visit to Colorado I was fascinated by the discussion of "pops and scrapes." This is Boulder parlance for developers who buy up small post-war houses and either add on by popping up the roofline, or scrape the...

Another Perspective on Dubai...

Posted on December 01, 2009
We've heard a great deal about the ongoing Dubai default drama from a horde of different economists and other financial types. Recently, though, KCRW in Los Angeles posted a podcast where it discusses the topic with two prominent architects. You...

Salkin on Sustainability and Local Land Use Planning

Posted on November 30, 2009
Patricia Salkin (Albany) has posted Sustainability and Land Use Planning: Greening State and Local Land Use Plans and Regulations to Address Climate Change Challenges and Preserve Resources for Future Generations, forthcoming in the William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy...

Salzman & Ruhl on top environmental law cases

Posted on November 30, 2009
James Salzman (Duke) and J.B. Ruhl (Florida State) have posted Who's Number One?, forthcoming in Environmental Forum, Vol. 26, No. 6, p. 36, November-December 2009. The abstract: What do environmental lawyers consider the most significant environmental cases? In 2001, Jim...

Crisis in Dubai

Posted on November 28, 2009
In the news today is a financial crisis in Dubai. The Gulf emirate has been going gangbusters in real estate development for some time. When the news hit yesterday that it might default on billions of dollars worth of bonds...

Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos on Law's Spatial Turn

Posted on November 28, 2009
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (Westminster) has posted Law's Spatial Turn: Geography, Justice and a Certain Fear of Space, forthcoming in Law, Culture and the Humanities, Vol 5, 2010. The abstract: This is a critical reading of the current literature on law and...

Konefsky on the Charles River Bridge Case

Posted on November 27, 2009
Alfred S. Konefsky (Buffalo) has posted Simon Greenleaf, Boston Elites and the Social Meaning and Construction of the Charles River Bridge Case, forthcoming in TRANSFORMATIONS IN AMERICAN LAW: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF MORTON J. HOROWITZ, Vol. II, Daniel Hamilton &...

More Atlantic Yards

Posted on November 26, 2009
Our intrepid co-editor Matt Festa posted a great summary on November 24, 2009, about the recent win for builders in the New York City takings controversy over the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. Atlantic Yards, as envisioned, will comprise twenty-two...

"The Desolate Wilderness"

Posted on November 26, 2009
Since 1961, the Wall Street Journal has published pre-Thanksgiving passages from Nathaniel Morton's accounts of Plymouth Colony, where he served as keeper of the records. Click here for a link to the editorials. The perspectives of William Bradford, as related...

Presentation on Stop the Beach at Georgetown Law

Posted on November 26, 2009
An announcement from John Echeverria: Judicial Takings? The Supreme Court Hears Arguments When: Wednesday, December 2nd, 12:15 PM Where: Hart Auditorium, Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Ave., NW, Washington, DC Immediately after oral argument in the Supreme Court,...

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 26, 2009
Thanksgiving is a land use holiday. Good and bad, it touches on the many facets of Native American ownership, European colonization, and the spread of English property law. Groups that observed thanksgiving holidays tended to do so with respect for...

Houston, do we have a problem?

Posted on October 01, 2009
Sorry to lead with the corny, overused NASA Apollo 13 reference, but everytime a national media outlet does a story on the City of Houston (or the energy industry, or Houston sports teams, or hurricances, or Whitney Houston), it seems...

Kent on Impact Fees as Takings

Posted on September 30, 2009
Michael B. Kent (Stetson/John Marshall) has posted Theoretical Tension and Doctrinal Discord: Analyzing Development Impact Fees as Takings, forthcoming in the William & Mary Law Review. Here is the abstract: One of the lingering questions about the law of regulatory...

Property law careers

Posted on September 30, 2009
Today at my law school the student Real Estate Law Society hosted a panel of property lawyers from the Real Property Division of the Harris County Attorney's Office (that's the county that Houston is in). The two panelists were attorneys...

The Definition of Ridiculous...

Posted on September 30, 2009
Remember when evidence of a ridiculous decision was often followed by "and if you believe that, then I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you"? Well, that quip is now so very 1900's. These days, the new motto...

A short introduction

Posted on September 29, 2009
I am happy that Land Use Prof is back and I am pleased to be working with a great group of editors. I practiced and taught community development in Baltimore, Maryland for several years before moving to Las Vegas in...

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