Join us at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University this May to learn from our distinguished panelists as they speak on hot topics in finance, affordable housing, and climate change.
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. ET
Panelists will discuss how municipal bonds have been used to finance multifamily affordable housing projects and provide an overview of conduit bond basics.
Practical tips and emerging trends from across the nation will be explored.
Stephen Adnopoz
Pearlman & Miranda LLC
Jessica Grimm
Career Associate
Global Operations & Innovation Center
Jeffrey Carl Philp
Partner
Orrick
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET
Panelists will discuss how local governments can partner with the private sector to develop affordable housing. Discussion will include land acquisition, financing, and land use regulation for successful projects.
Rose Noonan
Executive Director
Housing Action Council
Ken Regan
Vice President
Regan Development Corporation
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET
The National Zoning Atlas aims to unlock zoning’s black box by centralizing, standardizing, and making accessible information about local governments’ most important power: zoning. Hear more about the methods the NZA team has used to collect and analyze thousands of legal texts, what those texts say, and how the NZA can be used to explore housing affordability, climate resiliency, transportation investment, and more.
Sara C Bronin
Professor
Cornell University
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET
The purpose of this session is to discuss what CLTs are, how they operate, as well as their benefits and risks.
The workshop will cover:
Tony Pickett
Chief Executive Officer
Grounded Solutions Network
Christina DeIasi
Special Counsel
Goldstein Hall
2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. ET
Unfortunately, in the last few decades, the gap between the practice of, and professors’ scholarship about, many areas of the law has widened. In land-use law, that gap between practice and theory exists, but to a lesser extent. The purpose of this session is to allow three professors to share their works-in-progress with section members and to receive helpful feedback from the folks on the front lines. Topics include:
Shelby D Green
Professor of Law and Co-Counsel
Pace University, Elisabeth Haub School of Law
Brian Connolly
Assistant Professor of Business Law
Stephen M. Ross School of Business University of Michigan
Nestor M Davidson
Albert A. Walsh Chair in Real Estate, Land Use, and Property Law; Faculty Director
Urban Law Center, Fordham University, the School of Law
Michael Allan Wolf
Richard E. Nelson Eminent Scholar Chair in Local Government
University of Florida Levin College of Law
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. ET
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. ET
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. ET
2023 is confirmed as the hottest year ever recorded, and likely the hottest going back an unfathomable 125,000years. With this backdrop of rapid warming, and adverse climate impacts hitting all corners of the globe, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held its 28th meeting, in Dubai, with delegates from across the world. Join this panel to learn about what was discussed and agreed upon, who was represented, and what next steps are required to prevent the worst effects of climate change. On the ground in the United States, many renewable energy, infrastructure, and emission mitigation programs must be run at the state level – learn about what strategies are succeeding and if New York, or any other state, will successfully implement Programs aligned with international emission goals.
Jordan Lesser
Associate Counsel
New York State Department of Public Service
Michael Gerrard
Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, founder and faculty director
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Cynthia Swann
Chief of Staff
Hip Hop Caucus
Achinthi Vithanage
Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs, Adjunct Law Professor
Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
12:00 PM – 1:00 p.m. ET
Actionable steps that you can take right now to defend democracy It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3 . . .
Elizabeth Yang
President
WStrong LLC
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. ET
Speakers will explain highly successful presumptive mediation, in Maryland Courts at the appellate and trial level, and in State and Federal Courts in New York.
Erica Levine Powers
Past Chair, ABA Section of State & Local Government Law, 2020-2021, Editor, Heirs’ Property
Pamila Brown
Administrative Judge, District Court of Maryland
District Ten
John Kiernan
Special Advisory Committee on Presumptive Mediation
Annamaria M Walsh
Director
ADR Division of the Appellate Court of Maryland
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET
Speakers will explain land use representations and warranties in leases, workarounds for private use restrictions, and common land use issues that arise in lease litigation.
Meghan Gordon
Associate
Arnall Golden Gregory
Brett Morgan
Managing Associate
Dentons
Gianni A Corleone
Senior Managing Associate
Rebecca Davis
Partner
Arnall Golden Gregory
Anamaria Hazard Meanes
Senior Managing Associate
Dentons
3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. ET
There are ethical landmines in everyday municipal practice for attorneys and their clients. This program highlights routine dilemmas in the land use space so that attorneys can spot the issues and consider whether these problems present ethical challenges for themselves, or legal and other regulatory challenges for clients, as well as guiding how to best advise clients. The game format allows viewers to consider their responses before the panel discusses the answers/approaches.
Speakers:
W. Andrew Gowder, Jr.
Partner
Austen & Gowder, LLC
Evan A Davis
Senior Counsel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Jennifer G Rodgers
Lecturer in Law
Columbia Law School
Donna Frazier
Caddo Parish Attorney
Caddo Office of the Parish Attorney
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.