Boehl Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Policy

The University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

Silver Bullet or Trojan Horse?

The Effects of Inclusionary Zoning on Local Housing Markets

Vicki Been

Elihu Root Professor of Law, Professor of Public Policy,

& Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy

New York University

Monday, October 6, 2008

6:00 p.m.

Room 275, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law

Open to the public; reception to follow

Vicki Been is the Elihu Root Professor of Law, Professor of Public Policy, and the Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University.  She is at the cutting edge of legal scholarship at the intersection of land use, urban policy and environmental law.  Her areas of research include affordable housing, exactions, land use, predatory lending, smart growth, and takings.  Professor Been’s publications include "Impact Fees and Housing Affordability," in Cityscape, and "Coming to the Nuisance or Going to the Barrios: A Longitudinal Analysis of Environmental Justice Claims" in the Ecology Law Quarterly.  Been authored one of the first major articles on the distributional fairness of environmental and land use policies, "What's Fairness Got to Do with It: Environmental Justice and the Siting of Locally Undesirable Land Uses," in the Cornell Law Review, and is the co-author of the leading land use casebook, Land Use Controls, with Robert Ellickson.  Much of her work uses rigorous empirical analysis to ask tough questions about land use law and policy.  Professor Been has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She received her B.S. from Colorado State University, and her J.D. from New York University School of Law.  She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun.  The Boehl Distinguished Lecture Series in Land Use Policy is one of several law and policy initiatives in land use and environmental responsibility at the University of Louisville, and is supported by the Herbert Boehl Fund and the Kentucky Research Challenge Trust Fund.  This lecture is co-sponsored by the University of Louisville School of Urban & Public Affairs, which has applied for 1 hour of AICP CM credits towards the law requirement.