The Urban Lawyer 52-1

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Local Government

Municipal Market Evolution Reflecting the Constitutional Underpinnings of the Law of Public Finance

Ann D. Fillingham, Alexandra M. MacLennan, Joseph (Jodie) E. Smith, and Perry Israel

This article explores federal Constitutional principles to explain the structural and regulatory differences between the corporate and municipal securities markets and how these principles have informed historical public finance market developments.

Transportation & Energy Issues

Decarbonizing Decentralized Currency: How Decentralized Datacenter Overlay Zones Could Ensure Bitcoin Mining’s Clean Transition to the United States

Kevin Philip Donovan

A win-win solution to Bitcoin mining’s otherwise problematic electricity use, this article proposes overlay zoning with locational, renewable, and demand-response considerations to promote synergy between Bitcoin mining and renewable energy projects.

Local Government

Introduction: The Community Resilience Handbook

John Travis Marshall

Focusing on housing and neighborhood development, this chapter examines how a community can prepare for disasters by pursuing no cost or low-cost measures that promote the well-being of the entire community, especially its most vulnerable residents.

Land Use

Introduction: Regulatory Takings After Knick: Total Takings, the Nuisance Exception, and Background Principles Exceptions: Public Trust Doctrine, Custom, and Statutes

David Callies

This article summarizes the SCOTUS Knick case and total regulatory takings, emphasizing the exceptions-custom, public trust doctrine and nuisance-permit government to so strictly regulate property as to permit no economically beneficial use.

Student Note

Administrative Law

Fighting Fire with Fire: How NEPA’s Emphasis on Risk Prevents Prescribed Burns and Intensifies Wildfire

Jane Jacoby

Prescribed burning practices originated by Indigenous Americans protect communities and ecosystems. But NEPA’s assumptions about human activity’s relation to nature hinders controlled burns. Increased Tribal co-management could restore native fire.

Local Government

Combatting Your Environmental Impact After Death: An Exploratory Analysis of Local Solutions to Facilitate Dying Green

Kaitlin Flores

Current deathcare practices are unsustainable and local governments have the power to change that. Through regulatory amendments and land use solutions, harmful consequences of climate change created by existing deathcare trends can be mitigated.

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Developments in Interstate Compact Law and Practice 2022

Articles

Municipal Market Evolution Reflecting the Constitutional Underpinnings of the Law of Public Finance

Decarbonizing Decentralized Currency: How Decentralized Datacenter Overlay Zones Could Ensure Bitcoin Mining’s Clean Transition to the United States

Introduction: The Community Resilience Handbook

Introduction: Regulatory Takings After Knick: Total Takings, the Nuisance Exception, and Background Principles Exceptions: Public Trust Doctrine, Custom, and Statutes

Student Note

Fighting Fire with Fire: How NEPA’s Emphasis on Risk Prevents Prescribed Burns and Intensifies Wildfire

Combatting Your Environmental Impact After Death: An Exploratory Analysis of Local Solutions to Facilitate Dying Green

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Developments in Interstate Compact Law and Practice 2022

Articles

Municipal Market Evolution Reflecting the Constitutional Underpinnings of the Law of Public Finance

Decarbonizing Decentralized Currency: How Decentralized Datacenter Overlay Zones Could Ensure Bitcoin Mining’s Clean Transition to the United States

Introduction: The Community Resilience Handbook

Introduction: Regulatory Takings After Knick: Total Takings, the Nuisance Exception, and Background Principles Exceptions: Public Trust Doctrine, Custom, and Statutes

Student Note

Fighting Fire with Fire: How NEPA’s Emphasis on Risk Prevents Prescribed Burns and Intensifies Wildfire

Combatting Your Environmental Impact After Death: An Exploratory Analysis of Local Solutions to Facilitate Dying Green

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