This is really a great idea for a blog. Excellent job.
About the Author
Patricia E. Salkin, Esq. is the Raymond and Ella Smith Distinguished Professor of Law, Associate Dean and Director of the Government Law Center of Albany Law School, which she joined in 1990. She teaches courses in land use law, housing law and policy, NYS administrative law, current legal issues in government and government ethics. She is also on the adjunct faculty at the University at Albany in the Department of Geography and Planning where she teaches courses in planning law and planning ethics. She is a member of the faculty of the ALI-ABA Land Use Institute, and has served as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design.
Dean Salkin is a nationally recognized expert on land use law and zoning. Her land use publications include: The 4-volume 4th edition of New York Zoning Law & Practice (1999); and the forthcoming 5-volume 5th edition of Anderson’s American Law of Zoning; Land Use & Community Development, 7th ed. (Thomson West) (with Nolon and Gitelman) (2007); Land Use in a Nutshell (Thomson West) (with Nolon) (2007); Current Trends and Practical Strategies in Land Use Law and Zoning, ed., American Bar Association Press (2004); Trends in Land Use Law from A to Z: Adult Uses to Zoning, ed., American Bar Association Press (2001); the annual Zoning and Planning Law Handbook, ed. (West Group); contributing editor of the national monthly Zoning and Planning Law Report, editor of the bi-monthly New York Zoning Law and Practice Report, and zoning and planning law columnist for the quarterly Real Estate Law Journal (West). She is a frequent lecturer for statewide and national land use programs. Many of her dozens of law review articles, book chapters and columns can be accessed at www.governmentlaw.org or on SSRN at http://ssrn.com/author=83276. Salkin is an appointed member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She has served on the Board of Directors of the New York Planning Federation, and has been active in land use reform efforts in New York including: membership on the Land Use Advisory Committee of the Legislative Commission on Rural Resources; serving as a consultant to the State Commission on the Capital Region and its land use committee; consulting for the American Planning Association’s Growing Smart initiative; and serving on a working advisory group for the Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Council. She is a reporter for the American Planning Association’s Planning & Environmental Law and on the Editorial Advisory Board for The Urban Lawyer. In 2007, Salkin was re-appointed for a sixth term as chair of the American Planning Association’s Amicus Curiae Committee.
Salkin has served as a consultant to a number of local governments across New York on zoning law reform and watershed planning issues, and for state agencies including the Governor’s Office of Regulatory Reform, assisting in the development of model zoning ordinances for economic growth for the Build Now-NY program and the New York State Department of State on the shared municipal services initiative. She served as a consultant to the American Institute of Certified Planners conducting an ethics assessment for the organization. Dean Salkin has also served as a consultant several times for the National Governor’s Association, and recently served as a senior consultant to the National Academy for Public Administration on the intersection of environmental justice and land use planning and zoning.
Salkin is an officer and member of the Executive Committee of the Municipal Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and a founding member and Chair of the State Bar’s Standing Committee on Attorneys in Public Service. She is also the Chair of the Association’s Special Task Force on Eminent Domain and the Task Force on Town & Village Justice Courts, and a member of the Special Committee on Court Structure and Judicial Selection. Dean Salkin is active in the American Bar Association, serving as Immediate Past-Chair and member of the Executive Committee for the State and Local Government Law Section, a member of the House of Delegates and the Standing Committee on Membership.
Responses
By: Luke on September 7, 2007
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Patty,
Your blog is beautiful! Congratulations. Excellent. RM
By: Rose Marie Castano on October 24, 2007
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