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Consensus Groups And Grassroots Democracy: Maybe Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Should Get Out Of The Way Of Those Doing It, Mary Margaret Chapman

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

10 pages.

Contains 2 pages of references.

Should Taxpayers Pay People To Obey Environmental Laws?, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Should taxpayers have to pay people not to put pollutants into streams and reservoirs? Should taxpayers have to pay people not to kill off entire species? Should taxpayers have to reach into their pockets and pay people not to disperse development seamlessly across the countryside, relentlessly consuming, fragmenting, and degrading our nation's remaining natural lands until almost all is gone? Should we, in short, have to pay people not to engage in land-uses that have been determined to be too socially unacceptable to allow?

Reflections On Inclusionary Housing And A Renewed Look At Its Viability, Laura M. Padilla

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores property rights, housing policy, and affordable housing.

Takings Law And The Regulatory State: A Response To R.S. Radford, William Michael Treanor

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In the Winter 1994 issue of the Fordham Urban Law Journal, R.S. Radford provided an illuminating review of Dennis Coyle's book Property Rights and the Constitution. Radford observes that, in addition to studying post-New Deal land use cases, Coyle "provides an ideological framework that illuminates several key strands in the constitutional jurisprudence of property law ... [and] sets forth his own theories of the vital role of private property in creating and maintaining the American constitutional system." Radford's review is a generally enthusiastic one. He sees Coyle's book as providing a much-needed corrective to "the existing pro-regulatory bias …

The Supreme Court's Land Use Decisions (Symposium - The Supreme Court And Local Government Law, 1993-94 Term), Leon D. Lazer

Scholarly Works

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