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Land Use Regulation: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition is a dynamic, scholarly, yet practical teaching approach that focuses on the role of the lawyer in land use regulatory matters and the factors that influence land development decisions. Offering more comprehensive changes than in any edition since the book was first published, the Fifth Edition offers a new chapter addressing emerging issues in the field, including regulation of medical marijuana and fracking, responses to problems posed by vulnerable populations such as the homeless, continuing developments in “smart growth,” and changes in redevelopment law. It also features a thorough reorganization of takings materials, combining all of them in one chapter and addressing emerging issues.

Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Real Covenants, and Equitable Servitudes (2nd Edition) is the most comprehensive and integrated treatment available on the interrelated areas of easements, covenant, and servitudes. The book provide answers to both practical and theoretical issues, and is an essential resource to lawyers and others working in this field. This second edition follows the successful first edition of the book which was hailed by practioners and academics. The first edition was cited as an authority over 25 times in the American Law Institute's Restatement of The Law Third, Property (Servitudes). The second edition utilizes the same organization and approach of the first edition, and covers new cases, emerging developments, and recent innovations. Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Real Covenants, and Equitable Servitudes is an important addition to the field and an essential part of the real estate lawyer's library. Private Land Use is important for attorneys in a variety of situations. It provides guidance to transactional attorneys drafting documents such as easement agreements, REAs, covenants, declarations, deeds, and related documents, providing the underlying law and decisions that need to be reflected in documents. The book also includes specific drafting tips that should be included in documents, and is valuable to attorneys facilitating their clients' planning. Moreover, the book is essential for lawyers involved in litigation or dispute avoidance/resolution. It provides a comprehensive discussion of the law as well as competing approaches utilized by the courts, allowing practitioners to build arguments and assess the strength of their client's position. The book offers strategies for avoiding disputes and protecting clients' interests, as well as advice if a matter is litigated. Transactional lawyers, litigators, and academics will benefit from the book's careful examination of underlying policy issues and theory since these are pivotal for courts in determining when and how an easement, covenant, or servitude should be enforced.

To access this book's 2010 Update, click here. In addition, to bring the book up-to-date for 2011-12 before the new edition is released, click here. This casebook explores issues relating to property rights, environmental protection, and natural resources in Indian country. The book covers tribal, cultural and religious relationships with the land, fundamental principles of federal Indian law, land ownership and property rights of tribes, land use and environmental protection, natural resources development, taxation of lands and resources, water rights, usufructuary (hunting, fishing, gathering) rights, and international approaches to indigenous rights in land and natural resources. It is designed to be used in a stand-alone course or as a supplemental reader for courses in environmental law, natural resources law, or Native American studies. The second edition updates the casebook to include Supreme Court cases, such as the 2003 trust cases and the 2005 Sherrill case, as well as other judicial and legislative developments since 2002. The new edition also expands the materials on cultural and religious resources, natural resources damages, and international law; reorganizes the materials on water law; and includes the recent decision recognizing a right of habitat protection in treaties recognizing off-reservation fishing.

This casebook offers a concise, user-friendly presentation of land use law which incorporates a focus on critical thinking and practice throughout. The casebook devotes an entire chapter to complex and realistic scenarios that provide students an opportunity to bring to bear what they have learned throughout the semester to solve challenging legal and strategic problems. New materials in the third edition ensure that students will become familiar with the latest trends in land use law.