Land Use at ALPS, part I

Well, it was a great weekend at the Association for Law, Property, & Society.  Thanks so much to Robin Paul Malloy, the other organizers, and Syracuse and Georgetown for sponsoring the event.  ALPS has very quickly become *the* place to meet other scholars in property law, and to share ideas about research.  I hope that my fellow bloggers will share their thoughts from the conference.  In the meantime, I'm going to simply report the land use papers that were presented, and if you find any of them interesting, keep an eye out for them on SSRN and/or the publications.  So here are a few of the great presentations from the first day at ALPS.  I certainly do not mean to leave out any of the other excellent papers at ALPS, but these are some of the ones I saw and/or heard about. 

Shelley Saxer: Banishment of Sex Offenders: Protectionism and the Dormant Commerce Clause

Hari Osofsky: Multidimensional Governance and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Ashira Ostrow: Land Law Federalism: The Evolving Relationship between Federal Law and Local Land

Susan Bright: Leases: Hurdles and Tools for "Greening" Commercial Property

Adam MacLeod: Resurrecting the Bogeyman: Mosques, Mega-Churches, and the Substantial Burden Test

Joshua Fershee: Short-Sited: The Failure of Recent Federal Siting Laws in the Energy Industry

Sara Bronin: The Promise & Perils of Renewable Energy on Tribal Lands

Lynda Oswald: Defining the Boundaries of Judicial Deference in Eminent Domain Cases

Jeff Stake: Dimensions of Just Compensation

Timothy Mulvaney:  Time and Exactions

Laura Hatcher: The Trouble with Takings: Competing Time Horizons, Institutions, and Property Disputes

Lorna Fox O'Mahony: Housing Equity and Older Owners: Between Risk and Regulation

 Matt Festa