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David L. Callies
Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law

2515 Dole St.
Honolulu, HI 96822
Office 240
Tel: (808) 956-6550
dcallies@hawaii.edu

David L. Callies

 

AB, DePauw University, 1965; JD, University of Michigan, 1968; LLM, Nottingham University (England) 1969.

Professor Callies came to the School of Law in 1978 following a decade of adjunct teaching and private practice where he counseled local, state, and national government agencies in land use management and control, transportation policy, and intergovernmental relations.

Professor Callies recently co-authored Taking Land: Compulsory Purchase and Regulation in Asia-Pacific Countries (2002) and is the author of Preserving Paradise: Why Regulation Won't Work and Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawai`i.  He is co-author of The Quiet Revolution in Land Use Control, a study of state land use legislation; The Taking Issue, an analysis of the constitutional limits of land use control; the casebooks Cases and Materials on Land Use (3rd ed.) and Property Law and the Public Interest (1998); and editor of Takings (1996).  He is co-editor of Land Use and Environmental Law Review and past managing editor of the Michigan Journal of Law Reform.

In 1982, Professor Callies received the Chancellor's Award for distinction in teaching, research, and service and was awarded a UHM Campus Merit Award in 1983.  In both 1990 and 1991, he received the Outstanding Professor of Law Award.

He has lectured on land use and property law in American Samoa, Australia, China, England, Hong Kong, Japan, the Marianas Islands, Palau, Spain, Switzerland, Scotland, Germany, France, and Taiwan and surveyed land and environmental laws in Fiji, Australia, the Philippines, Colombia, Ecuador, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico and the Marshall Islands.

He is a past chairman of the American Bar Association's Section on State and Local Government Law, past chair of the Academics' Forum, council member of the International Bar Association, and treasurer of the AALS Section of State and Local Government Law.  In 1991 he was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI).  In 1995, on the unanimous recommendation of the faculty, the Board of Regents appointed him Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law.  He is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, where he was a Visiting Fellow in 1999.  In 2002 he was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) of the American Planning Association.

Teaching Areas:

Land Use, Legal Research and Writing, Property Law, State and Local Government Law

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

Books:

DAVID L. CALLIES with JES BJARUP, FRED BOSSELMAN, MARTIN CHANOCK, PETER OREBECH & HANNE PETERSEN, THE ROLE OF CUSTOMARY LAW IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (2005).

Articles:

Covenants and Gated Communities, Symposium Introduction, 37 The Urban Lawyer (2005).

A Requiem for Public Purpose, Property & Probate (Winter 2005).

The Public Use Doctrine in Eminent Domain, ___ Meijo U. Law Rev. ___ (Spring 2005).

Public Use and Kelo v. New London, Commentary, Property & Probate (Spring 2005).

David L. Callies (with Adrienne Suarez), Privatization of Public Facilities, ___ U. Virginia Journal of Law and Policy ___ (Summer 2005).

Valuation of Property in Compulsory Purchase, Essay (transl./Japanese) for published collection in honor of Prof. Tsuyoshi Kotaka's 70th Birthday, Dec. 2004.

David L. Callies (with Franzese & Guth), Gated Communities: Covenants and Concerns, 35 Urban Lawyer 177 (2003).  Anthologized:  Land Use & Environmental Law Review (2004).

Reports:

Special Alerts on Kelo v. New London, Lingle v. Chevron, San Remo Hotel v. San Francisco and Public Trust Cases, prepared for Nichols on Eminent Domain, July-Sept., 2005.

 

 

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