Friday, February 10
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Subotnick Center
250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn
Registration is now closed. If you have any questions, please email events@brooklaw.edu or call Alice Loeb at 718-780-7904.
Sponsored by The Brooklyn Law Review.
About the Symposium
Roughly one hundred years ago, zoning emerged as a response to the vagaries and limits of nuisance law in controlling threats to public health and safety. Zoning offered promise as a tool for comprehensive planning even as it rebalanced private property rights. A century’s worth of doctrine has evolved to mediate between the rights of property owners and the interests of the public.
We are now experiencing another revolution in land use regulation in our country. The Trager Symposium will examine this next phase of development control: non-zoning land use controls. Governments, and New York City in particular, have begun to rely on contracts and novel property transactions to control development in their jurisdictions. Through development agreements, restrictive declarations, community benefits agreements, transferable development rights, conservation easements, and other tools, zoning is both supplemented and supplanted by new techniques that challenge the traditional limits on government police powers.
Speakers and commentators will discuss legal responses, propose whether and when the law should embrace these new forms of land use controls, and consider what additional protections are needed. Participants will include some of the nation’s leading land use theorists.
Participants
Vicki L. Been
Boxer Family Professor of Law;
Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
New York University School of Law
Richard Briffault
Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation;Vice Dean
Columbia Law School
Alejandro Camacho
Professor of Law and Political Science
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Nestor Davidson
Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law
Richard Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution
James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Senior Lecturer, The University of Chicago
Lee Fennell
Max Pam Professor of Law
The University of Chicago Law School
William A. Fischel
Professor of Economics and Robert C. 1925 and Hilda Hardy Professor of Legal Studies
Dartmouth College
William Fulton
Principal
Design, Community & Environment, Inc., Ventura, California
Nicole S. Garnett
Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame Law School
Rachel D. Godsil
Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law
Seton Hall University School of Law
Roderick M. Hills, Jr.
William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
Mitchell Korbey
Partner; Chair, Land Use & Environmental Group
Herrick, Feinstein LLP
Gerald Korngold
Professor of Law
New York Law School
Brad Lander
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School;
NYC Council Member
Gregg Macey
Assistant Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
John R. Nolon
James A. Hopkins Professor of Law
Pace University School of Law
David Reiss
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Christopher Serkin
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Stewart E. Sterk
H. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
See the full Agenda here.