The latest issue of the Albany Government Law Review (4/1, 2011) features a symposium on “Eminent Domain: Public Use, Just Compensation, & ‘The Social Compact,'” with a particular focus on Kelo and its effects of New York:
Introduction: The Judicial Reaction to Kelo, by Ilya Somin
“Fairness and Equity,” or Judicial Bait-and-Switch? It’s Time to Reform the Law of “Just” Compensation, by Gideon Kanner
The Trouble With Eminent Domain In New York, by Norman Siegel, Steven Hyman, and Philip van Buren
Urban Revitalization and Eminent Domain: Misinterpreting Jane Jacobs, by Steven J. Eagle
Moving the Cat Into the Hat: The Pursuit of Fairness in Condemnation, or, Whatever Happened to Creating a “Partnership of Planning?”, by Michael Rikon
Evaluating Economic Development Takings: Legal Validity Versus Economic Viability, by David Schultz
From Slum Clearance to Economic Development: A Retrospective of Redevelopment Policies in New York State, by Amy Lavine
The Rise of Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Constitutional Protections Against Eminent Domain, by Christopher Dunn
Stacking the Deck: New York’s Unique Approach to Eminent Domain, by Robert McNamara
The EDPL Revised, by M. Robert Goldstein
(Crossposted at Economics and Ethics.)
