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41 St. & Loc. L. News 1 (2017-2018)

handle is hein.journals/stlolane41 and id is 1 raw text is: Section of State and Local Government Law STATE& LOCAL LAW The Section serves as a collegialforumfor its members, the profession, and the public to provide leadership and educational resources in urban, state, and local government law and policy. Editor's Message UPCOMING Greetings from your new Editor. I've been a Section member for over 20 Midyear Webinars years and a local government lawyer for over 30 years as an in-house, gen- I li f d/1 Maing p r rn h Vi will host a tepar eral counsel. State & Local Law News offers current developments in state ehin11 in cn ar; I n mur; ann3 d fro1r:0n pm. and local government issues and an outlet for you to contribute to Section W23fl pmF ir Hic progo;n n:m n Al be soon- activity. We will keep you informed as to regular Section committee confer- i sve the 1 i ence calls, open to anyone interested, and to webinars, calls for authors for books in development, and Section meetings. In this issue: We have a recap of Section presentations at the ABA Annual Meeting in New York City in August, a draft program agenda for the Section- Plan Your Year to Include sponsored Land Use Institute in Detroit, Michigan, in the spring, and materials Great Live CLE from the Section of from the recent Western Planning Conference in Boise, Idaho, dealing with State and Local Government Law planning for wildfires. (For a background on that topic, see the article by Prof. Steven Miller in the Spring 2017 issue of The Urban Lawyer.) April 19-20, 2018 There's a new feature Editor's Choice, with an introduction and links to 32d Annual Land Use Institute: short but thought-provoking articles readable online on contemporary issues. Planning, Regulation, Litigation, Past Section Chair Ben Griffith has an article on the federal court chal- Eminent Domain, and Compensation lenges to redistricting in Texas. Detroit, Michigan Section member Jordan Lesser describes his and two other Section mem- See Page 3 for information bers' experience aiding with enactment and enforcement of local laws in April 19-22, 2018 Namibia as to poaching of wild game. Section's Spring Conference and Council Meeting This is your newsletter, an outlet for all members to discuss interest- Westin Book Cadillac ing issues in this area of law. The protocol is simple: Contact me by email Detroit, Michigan with your suggestions, and we'll discuss whether and when to publish in this newsletter or as part of a Section-sponsored book, monograph, or law review article. Once in our hands, the editing, formatting, layout, printing, and distribution is all done for you, with our compliments. The objective is to get those thoughts on paper and leave the rest for us. As Nathan Heller Section News wrote in the July 24, 2017, issue of The New Yorker magazine, on inter- -'Ihomas Mitchell Appointed Interim Dean, page 2 preting what the writer means to say in a typical corporate email: Writing, -Model Ordinance on Water Neutral Growth Now along with fire-making and the invention of the wheel, is widely held to be Available, page 2 a milestone of human progress. This view will seem naive to anybody who -32nd Land Use Institute in Detroit, page 3 has read much human writing. In its feral form, prose is unhinged, mystify- Annual Meeting CLE Recap, page 5 ing, and repetitive. Writers feel moved to 'get things down on paper,' usually Editor's Choice: Selection of Curated Topics, page 7 incoherently.... The true wellspring of civilization isn't writing, it is editing. Reflections on Planned Communities, page 9 So, that being said, when you get the okay to submit something in writ- Rule of Law in Namibia, page 10 ing for the Section to publish, in this newsletter or elsewhere, rest assured Texas's Dueling Section 2 Challenges, page 11 that the editors are at hand to make it civilized. Contact me at CityCounsel@ Cybersecurity Proposal for 2018 Paris Sessions, page 13 comcast.net with your questions, suggestions, and comments. Planning for Areas at Risk of Wildfires, page 14 Bill Scheiderich, Editor Published in State & Local Law News, Volume 41, Number 1, Fall 2017. © 2017 American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof 1 may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association. Vol. 41, No. 1, Fall 2017

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