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• Building a Better Chicken Coop

  Today I'm continuing on both my Colorado and my urban chickens themes. While I was in Boulder recently my friend Deborah Cantrell of University of Colorado (CU) told me about an effort by CU students…

• New Preservation Battleground

  A recent article by Stephanie Strom, "A Revolutionary Widow's Estate Becomes a Preservation Battleground," New York Times (Nov. 17, 2009), describes a brewing fight over one of the most significant of the great Hudson River…

• Agins Strikes Again

  Okay - here's my rant for the day. Why, oh why, couldn't the US Supreme Court have overruled Agins v. Tiburon in Lingle v. Chevron? This case trips up my students every semester. You all…

• City Journal on Le Corbusier

  Theodore Dalrymple has an article in City Journal called The Architect as Totalitarian: Le Corbusier’s baleful influence. From the intro: Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform. Wow! There's something…

• Battle for the Beach: Property Rights and the Open Beaches Act

  Public access rights to privately-owned beachfront property has been a contentious land use issue for decades. I mentioned that on Election Day, on my ballot was not just the mayoral election (which always has some…

• ULI conference: focus on planning during downturn

  The Urban Land Institute recently held its fall meeting in San Fransisco. According to a summary from the California Planning & Development Report, the tenor of the meeting was that during tough economic times such…

• Lehavi on the Taking/Taxing Taxonomy

  Amnon Lehavi (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliyah--Radzyner School of Law) has posted The Taking/Taxing Taxonomy, forthcoming in the Texas Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 6, 2010. The abstract: Takings jurisprudence is engaged in a constant paradox. It…

• Palmer and Maher on the Mortgage Meltdown as Normal Accident

  Donald Palmer and Michael W. Maher (UC-Davis, Graduate School of Management) have posted The Mortgage Meltdown as Normal Accident Wrongdoing. The abstract: We argue that the mortgage meltdown can be considered a “normal accident”. Our…

• Preservation News from the Top: Anthony Wood in Charleston

  Acclaimed preservationist, author, and professor Anthony Wood paid a visit this week to Charleston, South Carolina, where he serves as Chairman of the Drayton Hall Site Council. Click here for a link to Drayton Hall…

• The Nature of the Property Curriculum

  Joanne Martin recently published "The Nature of the Property Curriculum in ABA-Approved Schools and its Place in Real Estate Practice" in the Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law Journal. The author surveys law professors and…