This symposium provides a setting for interdisciplinary conversations about a range of topics, including property rights, land use regulation, housing, sustainability, segregation, metropolitan inequality, cities, rural communities, and federal-state-local relations. Registration in advance is required to attend.

Thursday, March 28, 2024

9:20–9:30 AM

Welcome and Introductions

9:30–11:00 AM

Session I: Property, Land, History

• K-Sue Park, “Property, Sovereignty, and Title Registries: The Local Infrastructure of Private Ownership”
• Emily Prifogle, “Land Use Law in the Countryside: Drawing Boundaries in the 20th Century Midwest”
• Jessica Shoemaker, “Privatizing the Countryside”
• Thad Williamson, “Density Without Displacement? The Challenge of Greening Cities Without Gentrifying Them, in Richmond and Beyond
• Richard C. Schragger (moderator), University of Virginia School of Law
   

11:15 AM–12:45 PM

Session II: Environmental Justice, Climate, and Inequality

• Michelle Anderson, “Climate Change and Inequality”
• Chris Serkin, “The Myth of Self-Sufficiency: Municipal Competence as Climate Strategy”
• Todd Swanstrom, “Housing Deterioration as Environmental Injustice”
• Mildred Warner and Andres Martinez, “Courts, Rights of Rivers, and the City: Insights from Latin America”
• Cale Jaffe (moderator), University of Virginia School of Law

12:45–1:30 PM

Lunch Break

1:30–3:00 PM

Session III: Development, Displacement and Housing Justice

• Derek Hyra, “Chronic Displacement Trauma: Upheaval and Unrest in Ferguson and Baltimore”
• David Imbroscio, “Rethinking Land-Use Intensification and Housing Justice”
• Beryl Satter, “Ghetto as Conduit: A Short History of Racism and Reinvestment”
• Ben Teresa, “Legal Innovation and Investor-led Transformation of Housing Tenure”
• Malo Hutson (moderator), University of Virginia School of Architecture

3:15–4:45 PM

Session IV: Land Use Policy and Politics I

• Eric Biber, “The Politics of Development Approvals”
• Chris Elmendorf, “Price Controls, Demand Subsidies, or More Supply? Public Opinion About Housing Policy”
• Moira O’Neill, “What Does More State Oversight Offer? The San Francisco Case”
• Justin Steil, “Flooding Disasters, Renters, and Fair Housing”
• Jennifer Lawrence (moderator), University of Virginia School of Architecture

Friday, March 29, 2024

9:00–10:30 AM

Session V: Land Use Policy and Politics II

• Sara Bronin, “Reforming Federal Historic Preservation Policies Affecting Housing, Climate, and Indian Tribes”
• Ingrid Gould Ellen, “Supply Skepticism Revisited”
• Rich Schragger and Sarah New, “Underdevelopment in an (Up)Zoned City”
• Michael Storper, “The Housing Question: Revisiting the Supply-Affordability Relationship”
• Moira O’Neill (moderator), University of Virginia School of Law 

10:45 AM–12:15 PM

Session VI: Land Use Regulation and Reform

• Vicki Been, “State Land Use Reforms and Private Property Rights”
• Molly Brady, “The Power to Declare Public Policy”
• John Infranca, “Decoding Discretion: Reforming Zoning Administration”
• Thomas Silverstein, “Climate Gentrification, Public Housing Redevelopment, and the Role of Exclusionary Zoning”
• Andrew Hayashi (moderator), University of Virginia School of Law

12:15 PM

Lunch

12:30–2:00 PM

Session VII: Race, Land and Inequality

• Colin Gordon, “Piecemeal Democracy: Federalism, Localism, and Political Inequality”
• Brian Highsmith, “Structural Power and Local Democracy in a Fragmented Polity”
• Andrew Kahrl, “The Black Tax: Local Tax Systems and the Reproduction of Racial Inequality”
• Danielle Purifoy, “Free the Land! On Property Law and a Black Sense of Place”
• Moderator: Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia Department of History

2:15–2:45 PM

Screening of “Pine Grove: More Than a School”

A short film produced with support from PLACE.

This symposium is cosponsored by the UVA School of Law; Karsh Institute of Democracy's Local Equity and Democracy Working Group (LEAD); Program in Law, Communities, and the Environment (PLACE); UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy; and Virginia Environmental Law Journal.