Professor Robertson Presents on Preemption and Local Land Use at ABA Conference

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson traveled to Las Vegas for the American Bar Association’s Real Property/Trusts and Estates National CLE Conference. Robertson spoke on and moderated a program “The Sometimes Irrational State Preemption of Local Land Use Decision-making: From Housing Density to Renewable Energy Development.” Other panelists include Matthew Eisenson, Senior Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, and Nixon Peabody lawyers Karla Chafee and Bryan LeRoy. Robertson served on the program committee for the Land Use and Environment Committee of the RP/TE section and continues to serve as an Associate Editor of the section’s Probate and Property Magazine.
Robertson is the Steven W. Percy Professor of Law at the College of Law and Professor of Environmental Studies at the Levin College of Public Affairs and Education, Cleveland State University.