BACKGROUND
Taught at George Washington University Law School and four other law schools before teaching at Coastal.
EXPERTISE
Land use (and in particular issues related to suburban sprawl).
EDUCATION
- B.A. Wesleyan University
- J.D. University of Pennsylvania Law School
TEACHING and SCHOLARSHIP
- Property
- Environmental Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Products Liability
- Various courses related to land use
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Urban Land Institute Reality Check Data Committee
- Planetizen.com group blog
- Congress for New Urbanism.
PUBLICATIONS
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES
- "Five Myths About Sprawl", 23 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 81 (2007)
- "How Government Regulation Forces Us Into Our Cars: A Case Study", 16 Widener Law Journal 839 (2007) (symposium contribution)
- "Planners Gone Wild: The Overregulation Of Parking", 33 William Mitchell Law Review 613 (2007) (coauthored)
- "New Urbanist Zoning For Dummies", 58 Alabama Law Review 257 (2006) 19 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 31 (1996)
- "The Law of Sprawl: A Road Map", 25 Quinnipiac Law Review 147 (2006)
- "How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even In A City Without Zoning)", 50 Wayne Law Review 1171 (2004)
- "Suburban Sprawl, Jewish Law, and Jewish Values", 13 Southeastern Environmental Law Journal 1 (2004)
- "Twenty-First Century Planning and the Constitution", 74 University of Colorado Law Review 651 (2003) (reprinted in 2004 West Zoning and Planning Law Handbook)
- "How City Hall Causes Sprawl: A Case Study", 30 Ecology Law Quarterly 189 (2003)
- "Sprawl, Growth Boundaries and the Rehnquist Court", 2002 Utah Law Review 1 (2002)
- "Thou Shalt Not Put A Stumbling Block Before the Blind: The Americans with Disabilities Act and Public Transit for the Disabled", 52 Hastings Law Journal 1037 (2001)
- "Campaign of Sabotage: Big Government's War Against Public Transportation", 26 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 259 (2001)
- "Suburban Sprawl: Not Just An Environmental Issue", 84 Marquette Law Review 301 (2000) (reprinted in 2001 West Zoning and Planning Law Handbook)
- "The Case for Color-Blind Distress Sales", 19 Hastings Communication & Entertainment Law Journal 31 (1996)
- "When Is Time Brokerage A Transfer of Control?", 6 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal 1 (1995)
- "When Is Cumulative Voting Preferable To Single-Member Districting?", 25 New Mexico Law Review 197 (1995)
- "How Radical is Lani Guinier?", 74 Boston University Law Review 927 (1994)
- "How to Limit Gerrymandering", 45 Florida Law Review 403 (1993)
- "Are Spread Out Cities Really Safer?", 41 Cleveland State Law Review 279 (1993)
