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Videos and Podcasts

Podcasts and Videos

Podcast: People Places Planet, Bubble Trouble (2021)
Professor John Nolon describes how the local land use legal system can leverage state and federal assistance to reduce per capita carbon emissions as an important and now recognized component of global efforts to manage climate change.

Podcast: Legal Talk Network, Taking a Bite Out of Blight (2019)
Post-industrial cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, and New Orleans are each plagued by tens of thousands of blighted properties, but remedying the problem is rarely straightforward. At the 2019 American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting, Land Use law Center Executive Director Jessica Bacher joins Lin Chin and Amber Knee to discuss the issue of blighted property found in many US cities and how to get involved to solve the problem.

Video: Calming Troubled Waters: Local Solutions (2019)
Professor John Nolon delivered the 2019 Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Planning and the Law at Vermont Law School focusing on troubles with regulating water quality under the federal system of law and ideas for building a coherent framework involving all levels of government.

Podcast: Law to Fact, Mortgages (2018)
Professor John Nolon joined Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer, host of the popular Law to Fact Podcast for a discussion on mortgages. After an astute explanation of the levels of analysis necessary to understand mortgages, Professor Nolon shares how this topic, and property class in general, fits into the broader picture of educating first-year law students.