Edward H. Ziegler Jr.

• Property
• Land use
• Zoning and planning
• Environmental law

• B.A., University of Notre Dame
• J.D., University of Kentucky
• LL.M., with highest honors, George Washington University

• Cofounder and past president of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute
• Invited international scholar member of the GRIDAUH public interest network organization and research institute for city planning and housing at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University of Paris I

• Rathkopf’s The Law of Zoning and Planning, 4th

• “Urban Sprawl and Sustainable Development in the Age of Global Terrorism: Some Thoughts on Fortress America and the Potential for Defensive Dispersal II,” 29 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev.
• “Zoning and Land Development in the United States,” Foreign City Planning (National Urban Affairs Agency), Beijing, China
• “Urban Sprawl and Smart Growth Management in the United States, Urban and Town Planning Yearbook Research Institute for City Planning and Housing,” Patheon-Sorbonne University of Paris, I, Paris France
• “Urban Sprawl, Social Cohesion, and Zoning Discrimination in the United States, in Zoning, Social Cohesion and Affordable Housing,” University of Barcelona, Institute for the Study of Public Law, Barcelona, Spain

• “Yes, I Can Make You Take That Down: Regulation of Non-Conforming Uses,” Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
• “Innovative European Urbanism,” Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
• “The Legal Framework of Zoning and Planning,” American Planning Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
• “Urban Sprawl, Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Terrorism,” Symposium on Global Terrorism and Its Impact on Sustainable Development, William and Mary College of Law, Williamsburg, VA.

• Served as a consultant to the United States’ Senate Judiciary and Senate Public Works and the Environment Committees on matters related to land use and private property rights
• Principal consultant on a major research project for the government of Spain related to urban planning law, social cohesion, and affordable housing
• Consulting, research projects, and lectures on land use planning have ranged from the Port of Dutch Harbor on the Bering Sea and Anchorage, Alaska to New York City’s special zoning districts and Florida’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, which manages development of Disney World

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