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Values As Part Of The Clinical Experience, Jaime Baker Roskie

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This essay is based on a short talk I gave at the “Practically Grounded” conference hosted by Pace Law School’s Land Use Law Center. This piece discusses the University of Georgia (UGA) Land Use Clinic, specifically why and how I interact with my students in the classroom about values as part of the clinic experience. It attempts to tie my own teaching methods to those suggested in Best Practices for Legal Education.

Group Homes, Families, And Meaning In The Law Of Subdivision Covenants, Robert D. Brussack

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Part I of this Article discusses two questions central to a general account of the problem of meaning in the law of subdivision covenants. First, whose meaning ought to count? The answer to this question is developed principally by contrasting the meaning problem in covenants law with the related problem in other legal realms such as contractual and statutory interpretation. Second, what should be the role in contemporary covenants law of the traditional rule requiring that ambiguity in covenant language be resolved in favor of the free use of land. Here the Article explores the nature of ambiguity and critiques …

The Hidden Crisis In Georgia Land Use, J. William Futrell

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As will be more fully developed, the primary defect in the existing legal basis for land use planning is its fragmented and incomplete nature. The consequences of the improper and uncontrolled use of land spill over the narrow boundaries of the political subdivision in which the development occurs. Furthermore, natural areas of statewide or national importance may be lost because of local apathy.

These same conflicts in land use exist in Georgia, and the prevailing legal institutions in Georgia are just as inadequate as those in other states; but, in Georgia, the debate on legal solutionis has been muted. While …