The ABA's Condemnation, Zoning & Land Use Committee has recently published The Law of Eminent Domain, a fifty state survey designed to provide a single resource for practitioners. This compendium contains chapters covering a specific state that are authored by experts in eminent domain for that particular state. While the depth of information varies from state to state, each chapter provides concise information and contains listings of statutes and numerous citations to cases. The authors focus on who has the power to take property, what property can be condemned, the proceedings, inverse condemnation, ownership interests, what constitutes "just compensation," abandonment, and attorney fees/ litigation, and many chapters contain a response to the Supreme Court eminent domain case, Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005). This is an excellent source for those for those who need quick information as well as a starting point for more thorough research. The law library now has this book in the new titles shelf across from the circulation desk.
Earlier this week, the University of Houston Law Center was fortunate to have as its guest Professor Daniel Kanstroom of Boston College of Law. An expert in immigration law, he is the Director of the International Human Rights Program, and he both founded and directs the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Clinic. Speaking as the guest of the Houston Journal of International Law’s annual Fall Lecture Series, Professor Kanstroom discussed issues raised in his new book, Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora . Professor Michael Olivas introduced Professor Kanstroom to the audience, and mentioned the fascinating tale of Carlos Marcello, which Professor Kanstroom wrote about in his chapter “The Long, Complex, and Futile Deportation Saga of Carlos Marcello,” in Immigration Stories , a collection of narratives about leading immigration law cases. My interest piqued, I read and was amazed by Kanstroom’s description of one of the most interesting figures in American le
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