Land conservation increasingly involves a concentrated focus on private lands, and increasingly a focus coming from private organizations. In this effort to protect land, conservation easements have become widespread. Conservation easements are generally conceived of as a way to prevent...

This piece for the University of Chicago Law Review Symposium: Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit, examines how local governments can use private law mechanisms to entrench policy in ways that circumvent typical legal limitations. The piece examines in detail a specific example...