Land USe Controls: Cases and Materials, Third Edition (Casebook)

Give your students a casebook as dynamic as the subject of land use by adopting this thoroughly revised edition of a former best seller. LAND USE CONTROLS: Cases and Materials, Third Edition, illuminates the legal regulation of the land development process with a skillful blend of social scientific analysis and historical materials.Both students and instructors will appreciate the casebook's strengths:distinguished authorship. Robert C. Ellickson is a Professor of Law at Yale and author of several books and many law review articles dealing with land development and property; Vicki L. Been, is a highly respected scholar and authority on environmental justice whose thinking on land use has been published in prestigious law reviews and casebooksLAND USE CONTROLS is known and respected as a leading casebook, now completely updated for this latest editionan interdisciplinary approach that weaves historical, social, and economic perspectives throughout the work concise but comprehensive treatment of the legal issues that arise in both private and public regulation of land development, including environmental justice, building codes and subdivision regulations, and the federal role in urban developmenta thematic framework that reveals the connections among the multiple discrete topics under land law, with attention to the factual and political context of the cases and the aftermath of decisionshelpful learning aids -- original introductory text, cases, notes, excerpts from law review articles, and visual aids such as maps, charts, and graphsThis revision covers all the most recent and important developments and features:Kelo and other U.S. Supreme Court decisions through June 2005thoroughly updated notes, with recent cases, law review literature, and empirical studiesrecent land use controversies, such as the 'Walmart Wars'If you want a teachable casebook with the latest information and a traditional notes-and-cases approach, be sure to consider LAND USE CONTROLS: Cases and Materials, Third Edition. This scrupulously revised edition helps you teach a course that is both challenging and interesting to students.Vicki L. Been is the author of 'Land USe Controls: Cases and Materials, Third Edition (Casebook)', published 2005 under ISBN 9780735539969 and ISBN 0735539960.