Land Use Regulation: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition

Professor Ziegler is a founder and past president of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute. He is a Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and is a frequent speaker and noted scholar on zoning, urban planning law, and sustainable development. Professor Ziegler has published in professional journals throughout the United States, as well as in France, Italy, China, India, Spain, Chile, Colombia, and Great Britain. His writings, which include the teaching casebook Land Use Regulation, published by Aspen Publishing, and the five-volume treatise Rathkopf's The Law of Zoning and Planning, published by Thomson-West, are cited and quoted in leading teaching casebooks and are widely cited in land use cases by state appellate courts as well as by the United States Supreme Court.

Professor Ziegler's consulting, research projects, and lectures on land use planning have included projects for the French Ministry of the Interior, the Pantheon-Sorbonne University of Paris I, the Institute for the Study of Public Law at the University of Barcelona in Spain, the European Network for Housing Research based in Sweden, the Federal Institute for Spatial and Landscape Planning in Zurich, Switzerland, and the Shanghai Institute of Urban Planning and Design in China. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the World Congress for the Renewable City based in Sydney, Australia, and was recently selected as a European Union Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar for 2009 in the field of urban planning law and sustainable development.

In the United States, his work has ranged from projects for the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the Port of Dutch Harbor on the Bering Sea and Anchorage, Alaska, to research on New York City's special zoning districts and Florida's Reedy Creek Improvement District, which manages development of Disney World. He has been involved in research projects or symposia for the Center for the Study of American and Comparative Law, the Southwest Legal Foundation, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, The Conservation Foundation, the American Bar Association, the American Planning Association, the Urban Land Institute, the National Association of Homebuilders, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has also 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.