Land Use Law

Professor Daniel R. Mandelker is one of the nation’s leading scholars and teachers in land use law. He is the co-author of a widely-used casebook on land use law, now in its eighth edition, and the original author of this comprehensive treatise on land use law, now in its sixth edition. He also focuses on environmental law and state and local government law, co-authoring a casebook on state and local government law, in its seventh edition, and writing a popular treatise on National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) law and litigation. A member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners, Professor Mandelker has lectured at national and international conferences and serves on editorial boards. He is the past recipient of the ABA Section on State and Local Government’s Daniel J. Curtin Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been a consultant to local, state, and federal governments and to foreign countries in his areas of expertise. He was the principal consultant and contributor to the American Planning Association’s model zoning and planning legislation project, was the principal consultant to a joint ABA committee that prepared a model law on land use procedures that was adopted by the House of Delegates, and was the principal author of comprehensive planning amendments to the New Orleans city charter.

The author of Special Alert is Michael Allan Wolf, Author of Powell on Real Property®, and the Richard E. Nelson Eminent Scholar Chair in Local Government at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida. Professor Wolf—who received his B.A. degree from Emory University, his J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and his A.M. (History) and Ph.D. (History of American Civilization) degrees from Harvard University—joined the University of Florida faculty in 2003. He previously taught at the University of Richmond and Oklahoma City University. He teaches and writes in the areas of property, land-use planning, environmental, and constitutional law, and in American history/American studies. In addition to serving as Author of Powell on Real Property® and Powell on Real Property® Michael Allan Wolf Desk Edition, Professor Wolf is the author of The Supreme Court and the Environment: The Reluctant Protector (Sage/CQ Press 2012), The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler (University Press of Kansas, 2008), co-author (with Charles M. Haar) of Land Use Planning and the Environment: A Casebook (ELI, 2009), and editor of and contributor to Strategies for Environmental Success in an Uncertain Judicial Climate (ELI, 2005). He has also written more than forty articles, essays, and book chapters in law, economic development, planning, and historical journals and books; and his commentaries have been featured in national newspapers and on National Public Radio. A member of the Florida Bar, Professor Wolf has testified several times before Congress; helped draft state legislation; and advised local, state, and federal officials in the area of urban redevelopment.