For most people that's not exactly front-and-center as an issue of great concern. In fact some might say "Thank goodness!" I do understand.
But there must be a few fanatics around in the land use, environmental, property rights law business who also blog. But I can't find them. I have checked the law links at Crooked Timber, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Buck Stops Here...browsed a good number of their links...and I can't find anyone who is covering that beat.
As, to my mind, land use and environmental law encapsulates some of the most interesting, intriguing and relevant areas of the law, I wonder why no one is blogging it? Rhetorical question of course but if I am wrong, which I hope is so, and someone out there is doing it, please let me know.
And in fact what's even more puzzling (because a bit more realistic,) I don't see law bloggers (cursory review I concede) addressing the subject at all. Too bad. I would think that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) as one instance at least would be getting some discussion. Of course, again, maybe I've simply missed it.
Or maybe the absence of law blogs rooted in the earth parallels the seeming obliviousness of political blogs to much sense that the blogopshere is actually and literally on a sphere.
The phrase "land use law blog" has 113,000 hits on google. I suspect that such blogs are out there. Perhaps a good start might be here?
Posted by: TM Lutas | Aug 29, 2003 at 04:47 PM
Considering that
• CCBlog comes up #7 or so on that list of 113,000 and
• this Blog has barely touched land use law,
I wouldn't rely too much on Google as a very accurate indicator in this instance.
But thanks for the reference above (here). Eminent domain is indeed a troubling area: actvisist liberal statism meets big capital. The Supreme Court long ago broadened "public purpose" -- the essential keyhole -- to be so loose that any off-hand shrug of a city council is enough to turn the lock.
Posted by: David Sucher | Aug 29, 2003 at 08:26 PM
I post on land use issues with some regularity, but not on a daily basis.Take a look through the contents pages and you'll see several relevan posts, such as this one:
http://www.sneakingsuspicions.com/a0824090603.htm#082703
Best regards,
Fritz Schranck
Posted by: Fritz Schranck | Sep 02, 2003 at 11:04 AM
I have just started a blog on land issues in particular land
title fraud and the effect on the environment. It is a sort of
research diary but u might be interested in the subject of uncertain
or problematic land titling.
Posted by: Maggie Maguire | Jan 31, 2004 at 06:55 PM