Partial List
Author, “Are Local Governments Violating Supreme Court Exaction Precedents?,” Daily Journal, September 25, 2024.
Author, “Rental housing: The COVID factor,” Daily Journal, August 28, 2024.
Author, “Overreaching Condemnors,” Daily Journal, July 29, 2024.
Quoted, “Property Company Sues Sacramento for Failing to Police Vagrancy,” Daily Journal, July 31, 2024.
Quoted, “Fed. Circ.'s Eviction Ban Ruling a Big Win for Landlords,” Law360, August 9, 2024.
Author, “What is a ‘Rails-to-Trails’ Case?,” Daily Journal, June 26, 2024.
Author, “Takings by the Judiciary,” Daily Journal, May 29, 2024.
Author, “Don’t Make a Federal Case of It,” Daily Journal, April 18, 2024.
Quoted, “Supreme Court: Legislated Permit Fees Not Exempt From Takings Clause,” Daily Journal, April 15, 2024.
Author, “Is a taking based on pretext constitutional?,” Daily Journal, March 29, 2024.
Author, “…but some animals are more equal than others,” Daily Journal, February 28, 2024.
Co-author, “A 60-Year Retrospective in Memory of Gideon Kanner”, Zoning and Planning Law Report, February 2, 2024.
Author, “California exactions – one more time,” Daily Journal, January 16, 2024.
Author, “Rent control confronts the Constitution ,” Daily Journal, December 27, 2023.
Author, “The IRA’s Property Rights Ramifications: Drug-Price “Negotiation” Meets The Takings Clause,” Washington Legal Foundation, December 14, 2023.
Quoted, "Gideon Kanner 1930 - 2023," Daily Journal, December 1, 2023.
Author, “Protecting Property: A Tribute to Jim Burling,” Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal, Volume 12, November 29, 2023.
Author, “Is it time to reconsider Penn Central?,” Daily Journal, November 28, 2023.
Author, “Physical takings under copyright law,” Daily Journal, October 25, 2023.
Author, “Airport noise is back in the news,” Daily Journal, September 27, 2023.
Author, “When a taking is legislative or administrative, does it matter?,” Daily Journal, August 30, 2023.
Author, "Who Benefits From Delay?,” Daily Journal, July 26, 2023.
Author, “Takings day at SCOTUS ,” Daily Journal, May 30, 2023.
Author, “Legislative? Administrative? Constitutional? Land-use law is in disarray,” Daily Journal, May 24, 2023.
Author, “The Mirror Dimension: An Alternative View of an Alternate Reality,” California Litigation, May 2023.
Author, “Exploding vocabulary,” Daily Journal, March 10, 2023.
Author, “Takings law and gig workers,” Daily Journal, February 22, 2023.
Author, “Confiscating equity through foreclosure?,” Daily Journal, January 25, 2023.
Author, “In whose backyard?,” Daily Journal, November 30, 2022.
Author, “Theft, Extortion, and the Constitution: Land Use Practice Needs an Ethical Infusion,” Touro Law Review, 2022.
Author, “Real estate exactions – again,” Daily Journal, October 24, 2022.
Author, “Apartment owners prevail in COVID-19 test,” Daily Journal, September 28, 2022.
Author, “Oil and gas and cities – Oh, my!,” August 31, 2022.
Author, “Takings and copyright law,” Daily Journal, July 27, 2022.
Author, “Can a bee ever be a fish? Ah, definitions…,” Daily Journal, June 3, 2022.
Author, “COVID shutdowns and the Constitution,” Daily Journal, May 31, 2022.
Author, “Someday your price will come? Really?,” Daily Journal, April 27, 2022.
Author, “The unconstitutional conditions doctrine,” Daily Journal, March 28, 2022.
Author, “The regulatory taking conundrum,” Daily Journal, February 28, 2022.
Author, “Constitutional takings by animals?,” Daily Journal, January 25, 2022.
Author, “Takings law potpourri in 2021,” Daily Journal, December 30, 2021.
Author, “Ethics, schmethics — this is property litigation!” Daily Journal, November 29, 2021.
Author, “An invalid targeted taking,” Daily Journal, October 26, 2021.
Author, “Whither Regulatory Takings?,” American Bar Association, October 13, 2021.
Author, “‘Too Big to Fail’ — The Sequel,” Daily Journal, September 29, 2021.
Author, “A smorgasbord of rental takings cases,” Daily Journal, August 25, 2021.
Co-author, “Federal Drone Law in the United States,” Practical Guidance, July 14, 2021.
Author, “A SCOTUS takings trifecta,” Daily Journal, July 7, 2021.
Author, “Paper streets and the US Constitution,” Daily Journal, June 23, 2021.
Author, “Over-reaching regulation squelched,” Daily Journal, May 18, 2021.
Author, “Is the prevention of ‘future blight’ a public use?,” Daily Journal, April 28, 2021.
Author, “New book explains regulatory takings in the wake of Knick,” Daily Journal, February 23, 2021.
Author, “Possibly the US Supreme Court’s next takings case,” Daily Journal, January 27, 2021.
Author, “A plea for publication: ruling on common takings issue,” Daily Journal, December 4, 2020.
Author, “Do farmers have property rights?” Daily Journal, November 30, 2020.
Author, “Access to federal courts still denied to property owners,” Daily Journal, October 28, 2020.
Author, “RBG, her successor and takings law,” Daily Journal, September 29, 2020.
Author, “Biden on property rights,” Daily Journal, August 25, 2020.
Author, “Kelo, continued,” Daily Journal, July 28, 2020.
Author, “What are they thinking?” Daily Journal, July 1, 2020.
Author, “COVID-19 meets the 5th Amendment,” Daily Journal, May 27, 2020.
Author, “Sprawl vs. Density,” Daily Journal, April 30, 2020.
Author, “Unfinished takings business at the US Supreme Court,” Daily Journal, March 26, 2020.
Author, “Dropping Hurricane Harvey’s other shoe,” Daily Journal, February 26, 2020.
Author, “Property ‘dedication’: Gift or theft?” Daily Journal, January 29, 2020.
Author, “A Long and Winding Road to Undo Bad Supreme Court Law,” 33:2 Cal. Litigation 3, 2019.
Author, “The Feds’ evasion of takings law,” Daily Journal, December 27, 2019.
Author, “Knick Interruptus?” Daily Journal, December 10, 2019.
Co-author, “Yes, the ‘Knick’ Ruling Does Signal a Change—And That’s a Good Thing,” The National Law Journal, December 2, 2019.
Author, “Coastal Commission: Talk to the Dutch,” Daily Journal, November 27, 2019.
Author, “Ethics at the California Coastal Commission,” Daily Journal, October 30, 2019.
Author, “Definitional theft as government policy? Not so fast,” Daily Journal, September 25, 2019.
Author, “Columns: Clarifying regulatory takings,” Daily Journal, August 27, 2019.
Author, "Columns: Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead!" Daily Journal, June 24, 2019.
Author, "Columns: If You See a Fork in the Road, Take It," Daily Journal, May 29, 2019.
Author, “Missed Opportunity to Align State and Federal Takings Law,” Daily Journal, April 17, 2019.
Author “An Eighth Amendment takings case,” Daily Journal, February 22, 2019.
Co-author, “The Nasty, Brutish and Short Life of Agins v. City of Tiburon,” The Urban Lawyer, July 2018.
Author, “Ruminations on Takings Law in Honor of David Callies,” Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal, August 2018.
“The Joy of Takings,” 53 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 189, 2017.
Contributing occasional author, column on land use law for the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 1991-present.
Contributing author, monthly column: Takings and Land Use, for Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal, Jan. 1991-present.
Contributing author, column on property law for the California Real Estate Journal, Jan. 1998-present.
Contributing author, column on property law for The Nation’s Building News (published by the National Association of Home Builders), December 1993-present.
Author, "Property, Democracy, and the Constitution," 5 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal, 2016.
Author, “Strong and Informed Advocacy Can Shape The Law: A Personal Journey,” 4 The Brigham-Kanner Property Conference Journal 1, 2015.
Co-author, “Why Land Use Lawyers Care About the Law of Unmanned Systems,” Zoning and Planning Law Report, June 2014.
Author, “The Ripeness Game: Why Are We Still Forced To Play?” Touro Law Review (vol. 30, no. 2), May 2014.
"What Is Fairness, Anyway?" Planning, October 2006, p. 12.
Co-author, "Shell Game! You Can’t Get There From Here: Supreme Court Ripeness Jurisprudence in Takings Cases at Long Last Reached the Self-Parody Stage," 36 Urban Lawyer 671, 2004.
Co-author, "To Steal or Not to Steal? That is the Question," 55 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest 13, November 2003.
"What’s ‘Normal’ About Planning Delay?" in ABA Taking Sides on Taking Issues: Public and Private Perspectives, Chapter 11, (Roberts, ed.), 2002.
"The Shame of Planners," 54 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, no. 6, p. 6, June 2002.
"Vindicating the Rights of Private Land Development in the Courts," 32 Urban Lawyer 941, 2000.
"Supreme Bait & Switch: The Ripeness Ruse in Regulatory Takings," 3 Wash. U.J.L. & Policy 99, 2000.