Kenneth Stahl

Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law

Associate Professor, Director, Environmental Land Use and Real Estate Law Program

One University Drive

Orange, CA 92866-1099

United States

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'Yes in My Backyard': Can a New Pro-Housing Movement Overcome the Power of NIMBYs?

Zoning & Planning Law Report, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Dec 2017
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
Downloads 693 (77,190)
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NIMBY, YIMBY, Zoning, Housing Crisis, SB 35, Homevoter, CEQA

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Are Traffic Studies 'Junk Science' That Don’t Belong in Court?

Kristina M. Currans & Kenneth A. Stahl (2023) Are Traffic Studies 'Junk Science' That Don’t Belong in Court?, Journal of the American Planning Association, DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2022.2136735
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2023
Kristina Currans and Kenneth Stahl
University of Arizona - School of Landscape Architecture and Planning and Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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traffic impacts, new development, traffic impact analyses (TIAs), trip generation, courts, judicial review, substantial evidence

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Home Rule and State Preemption of Local Land Use Control

50 The Urban Lawyer 179 (2021)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2021
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
Downloads 474 (123,580)
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home rule, preemption, zoning, land use, housing crisis, California, Oregon, SB 50

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The Trespass/Nuisance Divide and the Law of Easements

86 George Washington Law Review 966 (2018)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 10 May 2019
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Easements, Trespass, Nuisance, Law & Economics, Judicial Takings, Public Trust

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The Suburb as a Legal Concept: The Problem of Organization and the Fate of Municipalities in American Law

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 29, pp. 1193-1272, 2008
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 30 May 2007 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2012
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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zoning, legal history, municipal government, urban law, land use planning, urban history, labor law history

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Local Citizenship in a Global Age: How Cities are Changing What It Means to be a Citizen (Part I)

Local Citizenship in a Global Age: How Cities are Changing What It Means to be a Citizen (Part I), Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 31 May 2019 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2019
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Globalization, citizenship, local government, local citizenship, urban citizenship, citizenship federalism, immigration, immigration federalism

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Neighborhood Empowerment and the Future of the City

161 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 939-1008 (2013), Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 11-21
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 24 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 27 May 2013
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Zoning, Land Use, Special Assessment, Business Improvement District, Neighborhoods, Local Government, Public Choice

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Preemption, Federalism, and Local Democracy

44 Fordham Urban Law Journal 133-179 (2017), Chapman University, Fowler Law Research Paper No. 16-12
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2017
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Preemption, federalism, home rule, single-member districts, gerrymandering, globalization, urban/rural conflict, intrastate federalism

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The Artifice of Local Growth Politics: At-Large Elections, Ballot-Box Zoning, and Judicial Review

Marquette Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 1, Fall 2010, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 10-11
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 01 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2012
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Land Use, Local Government, Initiatives, Ballot-Box Zoning, Direct Democracy, At-Large Voting

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The Challenge of Inclusion

89 Temple Law Review 487 (2017), Chapman University, Fowler Law Research Paper No. 16-05
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 27 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2017
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Fair Housing Act, Inclusive Communities, land use, local government, urban sociology, public choice, law and economics, affirmatively furthering fair housing

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Local Government, 'One Person, One Vote', and the Jewish Question

Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL), Vol. 49, pp. 1-58 (2014), Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 12-3
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2014
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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local government, legal geography, voting rights, Constitutional law, land use planning, zoning, critical legal studies, jurisprudence

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Mobility and Community in Urban Policy

46 The Urban Lawyer 625 (2014) , Chapman University, Fowler Law Research Paper No. 14-2
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 May 2014 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2015
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Community policing, community economic development, Tiebout model, Moving to Opportunity, Urban Sociology, Public choice, Robert Sampson, broken-windows hypothesis, place-based policies

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Local Home Rule in the Time of Globalization

2016 BYU Law Review 177, Chapman University, Fowler Law Research Paper No. 15-04
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 15 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2017
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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law and geography, local government law, home rule, globalization, dual federalism, separate spheres ideology

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Reliance in Land Use Law

2013 Brigham Young University Law Review 949, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 13-5
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 29 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2014
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Land Use Law, Reliance, Public Choice Theory, Zoning, Homevoter Hypothesis

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Incorporating Transportation Topics into the Land Use Curriculum

106 Iowa Law Review 2451 (2021)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2021
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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land use, transportation, new urbanism, subdivision review, quasi-judicial, traffic study, traffic impact analysis, level of service, vehicle miles traveled, CEQA

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The Power of State Legislatures to Invalidate Private Deed Restrictions: Is it an Unconstitutional Taking?

50 Pepperdine Law Review 579
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 08 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2023
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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takings clause, contract clause, homeowners associations, CCRs, CC&Rs, servitudes, preemption, zoning, land use

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Local Citizenship in a Global Age: How Cities are Changing What It Means to be a Citizen (Part II)

Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 30 Jun 2019
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Globalization, citizenship, local government, local citizenship, urban citizenship, citizenship federalism, immigration, immigration federalism

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Local Citizenship in a Global Age: How Cities are Changing What it Means to be a Citizen (Part III)

Local Citizenship in a Global Age: How Cities are Changing What it Means to be a Citizen (Part III) Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 10 Jul 2019
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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globalization, citizenship, local government, local citizenship, urban citizenship, citizenship federalism, urban geography, legal geographies, space and place, community economic development, gentrification

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The Trouble With Traffic Studies: Why Bad Traffic Predictions are Making Our Cities Worse and What Courts Should Do About It

ABA Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Journal 2024
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Jun 2024
Kenneth Stahl and Kristina Currans
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law and University of Arizona - School of Landscape Architecture and Planning
Downloads 46 (806,415)

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traffic studies, land use, exactions, Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, substantial evidence, rational basis, fairly debatable, special assessments

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Reparations for Gentrification?: A Response to Professor Infranca's "Differentiating Exclusionary Tendencies"

72 Florida Law Review Forum 190 2023
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 30 Oct 2023
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Equality and Closure: The Paradox of Local Citizenship

Texas A&M University Journal of Property Law, Vol. 8, No. 29, 2021
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 May 2022
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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Citizenship, local government, zoning, suburbs, urban space, gentrification, immigration

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Home Rule Immunity from State Preemption of Local Land Use Regulation

46 Zoning & Planning Law Report (2023)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 May 2024
Kenneth Stahl
Chapman University - The Dale Fowler School of Law
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home rule, zoning, preemption, land use, local government, state constitutions, SB 9