Professor John R. Nolon’s article in Volume 34, Issue 1 of William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review is entitled The Land Use Stabilization Wedge Strategy: Shifting Ground to Mitigate Climate Change. The article will be available in January. The article has already been referenced on the Land Use Pro Blog.

John R. Nolon is the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law where he teaches property, land use, and the lawyer’s role in green development and is Counsel to the Law School’s Land Use Law Center and Real Estate Law Institute. He also directs the Kheel Center on the Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes and is Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Professor Nolon served as the Charles A. Frueauff Research Professor of Law during the 1991-92, 1997-98, 1999-2000, and 2000-01 academic years. He received the Richard L. Ottinger Faculty Achievement Award in 1999 and won the Goettel Prize for faculty scholarship in 2006. In 2009, he was awarded the National Leadership Award for a Planning Advocate by the American Planning Association and appointed James A. Hopkins Professor of Law.

Professor Nolon received his JD degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was a member of the Barrister’s Academic Honor Society. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Nebraska, where he was President of the Senior Honor Society. He has served as a consultant to President Carter’s Council on Development Choices for the 1980′s, President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, New York Governor George Pataki’s Transition Team, and Governor Elliot Spitzer’s Transition Team. Professor Nolon has served as Visiting Professor of Environmental Law at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies since 2001. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the National Housing and Development Reporter and is a member of the Editorial Board of THE LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW, published by Thomson-West. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and served on the Association’s Eminent Domain Task Force.

Biography Courtesy of Pace Law School

Timothy Beatley’s article in Volume 34, Issue 1 of the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review is entitled, Biophilic Urbanism: Inviting Nature Back to Our Communities and Into Our Lives. The article will be available in January.

Timonthy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for more than twenty years. Much of Beatley’s work focuses on the subject of sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can fundamentally reducte their evological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places. He is the author or co-author of more than fifteen books, including Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities, The Ecology of Place, and Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age. He recently co-authored two new books with Australian planner Peter Newman: Resilient Cities and Green Urbanism Down Under. Beatley hold a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Biography courtesy of the University of Virginia.

Shari Shapiro’s article in Volume 34, Issue 1 of the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review is entitled, Who Should Regulate? Federalism and Conflict in Regulation of Green Building. The article will be available in January.

Shari Shapiro is an associate with Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP. She is a member of the Environmental Department. Ms. Shapiro is a LEED Accredited Professional. Ms. Shapiro focuses her practice on green building law, which includes sustainable project financing, regulatory drafting, land use approvals, contracts, and conflict resolution. Ms. Shapiro is the Sustainability Coordinator for Obermayer’s Sustainability Initiative. Ms. Shapiro maintains a blog on legal issues related to Green Building available at www.greenbuildinglawblog.com.

Ms. Shapiro is the Co-Chair of the ABA State and Local Government Section Subcommittee on Land Use/Environmental Law, and is the Secretary of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council. Ms. Shapiro was named a 2009 “Lawyer on the Fast Track” by the The Legal Intelligencer.

Ms. Shapiro earned her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania where she receive the Milton C. Sharp Award for Best Grades/Best Research in Urban Renewal or Land Use Planning. While attending the University of Pennsylvania, she obtained a Certificate in Business and Public Policy from the Wharton School of Business.

Biography of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippell LLP

Professor Prum’s article will appear in Volume 34, Issue 1 of the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review. It is entitled, Creating State Incentives for Commercial Green Buildings: Did the Nevada Experience Set an Example or Alter the Approach of Other Jurisdictions?. The article will be available in January.

Mr. Prum is a Visiting Lecturer in Business Law and Finance at the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He earned a Juris Doctorate and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a Graduate Certificate in Accounting from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of California at Riverside.

Mr. Prum currently teaches Legal Environment of Business, Business Law I, Construction Law, and Personal Finance. His primary research interests include construction and gaming law and published articles in the Gaming Law Review and Economics, UNLV’s Gaming Research and Review Journal, the Real Estate Law Journal, the William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review (forthcoming in 2009, The Villanova Environmental Law Journal (forthcoming in 2009). and SMU’s Journal of Air Law and Commerce.

He also has a wide range of experience in corporate, financial, legal, and general business matters. His background includes many facts of finance and related legal areas. Mr. Prum held financial management positions in all levels of the construction industry (from trade contractor to general contractor to owner’s representative to architect/engineer). In addition, he held the title of Business Manager for a major defense contractor’s $100M division with numerous sites around the world.
Biography courtesy of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Professor Circo’s article will appear in Volume 34, Issue 1 of the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review. It is entitled, Should Owners and Developers of Low-Performance Buildings Pay Impact or Mitigation Fees to Finance Green Building Incentive Programs and Other Sustainable Development Initiatives?. It will be available in January.

Carl Circo joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas School of Law in 2003. He teaches Real Estate Transactions, Construction Law, Land Use, Negotiations, and Wills, Trusts, and Estates. He also supervises students in the Corporate Counsel Externship. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and his J.D. from the University of Nebraska. Following law school, he serves as a law clerk to Chief Judge Warren K. Urborn of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. He has served as an assistant professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law, and an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City of School of Law.

He has been admitted to practice in Arkansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. For over 20 years, he practiced with Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP, a Kansas City-based regional firm where he continues to provide professional development programming. Before returning to the academy, he devoted most of his time to real estate matters, business transactions, and construction law.

Professor Circo has been a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers since 1993. He is currecntly the Chair-Elet of the Arkansas Bar Association’s Corporate and In-House Counsel Section. He served terms as a the president of the Kansas Bar Association’s Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section and as chair of an American Bar Association committee on Design and Construction Law. His recent publicaitons includ articles on construction and design law, sustainable development, and real estate transactions. Several of his current scholarly articles are available on the Social Sciences Research Network.

Biography courtesy of the University of Arkansas School of Law

Professor Salkin’s article will appear in Volume 34, Issue 1 of the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review. Her article is entitled Sustainability and Land Use Planning: Greening State and Local Land Use Plans and Regulations to Address Climate Change Challenges and Preserve Resources for Future Generations. The article will be available in January.

A biography of Professor Salkin is forthcoming.

Mr. Del Percio’s article will appear in Volume 34, Issue 1 William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review. It is entitled, Revisiting Allied Tueb and Noerr: The Antitrust Implications of Green Building Legislation & Case Law Considerations for Policy Makers. The article will be available in January.

A Biography of Mr. Del Percio is forthcoming.

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There are thousands of hours of work that go into a volume of a student-run scholarly publication such as ELPR. The most uncelebrated of these student workers are the diligent cite checkers. For every source cited, there is time spent researching and bluebooking. Without the contributions of our cite checkers, ELPR would not be possible.

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