Constitutional Limitations on Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations and Governmental Exactions - 2011 edition

Abstract:     
The casebook, which is electronically published in PDF format, is a part of the E-scholarship Repository of the University of Maryland School of Law. It consists of non-copyrighted material and is intended for classroom use. Professors and students are free to use it in whole or part. As the Table of Contents indicates, 170 odd cases have been grouped into 36 "sessions." Most sessions consist of four or five tightly-edited cases and the related statutes, if any. The readings are intended to be historically, economically, politically, and legally evocative; they are designed to provide an assignment appropriate for a 55 minute class discussion. The complication is approximately 1100 pages in length. It is updated annually.

Keywords: land use, real property, environmental law, constitutional law, sovereignty, property, public domain, natural resources, public trust, navigability, eminent domain, just compensation, regulatory takings, exactions, personal liberties, public forum

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