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Land Use Prof Blog
Introducing Jessica Owley
Here at the Land Use Prof Blog we've been incredibly fortunate to have some really bright scholars willing to contribute--from getting Jim Kelly and Tony Arnold join the lineup, to several…
ContractsProf Blog
Goldberg v. Eisenberg on excuse of performance
The current issue of Harvard's online Journal of Legal Analysis has an excellent give-and-take about excuse of performance between a pair of well-matched heavyweights. In the right corner, from New York City, wearing…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Aguilar on Regulatory Reform
SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar spoke on An Insider’s View of the SEC: Principles to Guide Reform, at the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, University of California…
Renewable + Law
New Defender of the PACE Program
By Janet Jacobs
There is new hope for the PACE financing program (the acronym stands for: “property-assessed clean energy”). The PACE program was started in Berkeley, CA in 2007 and made loans available…
Land Use Prof Blog
Vermont Law Announces Upcoming Takings Conference
From John EcheverriaOn November 5, 2010, the 13th Annual Conference on Litigating Takings Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulations will be held at Berkeley Law in Berkeley, California. This…
Land Use Prof Blog
John Echeverria Announces Upcoming Takings Conference
13th Annual Takings Conference July 13, 2010 The 13th annual edition of the Conference on Litigating Regulatory Takings Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulations will be held at U.C. Berkeley…
Land Use Law Blog
Regents’ CEQA Document Receives a Passing Grade; Opponent Marked Down for Inadequate Participation
Appellate court affirms range of alternatives in EIR for facility expansion as sufficient; bars additional claims for plaintiff's failure to exhaust administrative remedies.
International Law Prof Blog
Teaching International Humanitarian Law Workshop
On April 9-10, 2010 the University of California, Berkeley Law School and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will convene the first West Coast Teaching International Humanitarian Law…
Land Use Prof Blog
Zetland on Water Rights as Property Rights for the Poor
David Zetland (Berkeley--Agricultrual & Resource Economics) has posted Water Rights and Human Rights: The Poor Will not Need Our Charity if We Need Their Water. The abstract:Each year, about 2.8 million…
The Right Coast
Creeps on campus Tom Smith
BY DAWN MacKEEN | One evening last month a wholesome-looking college student with long, straight hair took the floor of the UC-Berkeley Student Senate and began speaking as if she…