2006 Law Review Symposium: Most Successful Event to Date Focused on Metro Redevelopment
March 1, 2006
The Georgia State University Law Review and the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth at the Georgia State University College of Law presented a thought-provoking symposium Feb. 2-3 entitled What Kind of Metropolitan Areas Do We Want? Challenges, Promises and Pitfalls in Redevelopment.
The symposium delved into redevelopment methodology best suited to meet future needs in metro areas, with its largest attendance to date. The event began on the afternoon of Feb. 2 with a field visit to one of the largest urban infill projects undertaken in the U.S. in recent decades – the Atlantic Station development in midtown Atlanta. All day Feb. 3, the symposium was held on the campus at Georgia State where lawyers, planners, architects, real estate and government officials addressed key redevelopment issues. Stimulating presentations and panel discussion were mixed with an innovative session in which attendees engaged with speakers and practicing professionals in the resolution of a hypothetical situation based on real-life redevelopment problems.
“With a number of distinguished experts from the U.S. and abroad, we were able to capture a lot of great thinking and perspective during this year’s Law Review Symposium,” said Professor Colin Crawford, co-director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth. “With over 200 registered participants, the event was our most highly attended symposium to date, and we are grateful to everyone who worked diligently to make the symposium so successful.”
One of the highlights of the two-day event was a luncheon featuring two former governors with strong opinions on redevelopment efforts in their respective states. Gov. Roy Barnes of Georgia, who now practices law in Marietta, and Gov. Parris Glendening of Maryland, who is now the president of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute.“The symposium offered important contributions and potential answers for challenges of redevelopment in metropolitan areas around the world,” remarked Professor Julian Juergensmeyer, co-director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth and the Ben F. Johnson Chair in Law. “Through this event we shed light on some important and inventive aspects of urban redevelopment, with hopes of transforming areas that are not currently used into vital hubs for our growing metro populations.”
A listing of speakers and panelists who participated in the Georgia State College of Law 2006 Law Review Symposium includes:
- Hilburn O. Hillestad, Jacoby Development, Inc.
- James Kushner, Southwestern University School of Law
- Fernando Walcacer, Interdisciplinary Environmental Nucleus, Faculty of Law, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro
- Raymond Young, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law and School of Community and Regional Planning
- Edward H. Ziegler Jr., Denver University College of Law
- Vicki Been, New York University School of Law/ Ioan Voicu, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University
- Robert W. Burchell, Center for Urban Policy Research, Edward Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
- Audrey McFarlane, University of Baltimore School of Law
- Carl Patton, Georgia State University President
- Catherine Ross, Center for Quality Growth & Regional Development, Department of City of City and Regional Planning, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Stacey Y. Abrams, City of Atlanta, Government Counsel Group
- Linda B. Curry, Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, P.C.
- Skip Kazmarek, McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP
- Jay J. Levin, Powell Goldstein LLP
- Patti Pearlberg, Coro Realty Advisers, LLC
- Gerald Pouncey, Morris & Manning, LLP
- Charles H. Tisdale, King & Spalding LLP
- Daniel Cole, Indiana University School of Law/Indianapolis
- Sheila Foster, Fordham Law School
- James C. Nicholas, Environmental and Land Use Law Program, University of
- Florida Levin College of Law
- Wendell Pritchett, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Moderators included Professors Crawford and Juergensmeyer; Laura Taylor, Georgia State Andrew Young School of Policy; and Janice C. Griffith, Georgia State University College of Law.