🚨 Transportation for the Abundant Society 🚨 New draft paper (w/ Jonathan Levine) now up. "Abundance" needs to grapple with transportation beyond megaprojects & institutions beyond zoning. We propose anchoring planning in *access*, not speed of travel. https://t.co/UIolqFdzSS

Many thanks to @JamesYStern and all the organizers for hosting a wonderful gathering.

Just wrapped up a talk on transportation policy and abundance at the 22nd Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at @WMLawSchool. So many great insights at the conference, none more so than those of this year’s honoree, Bill Fischel, economist and giant of land use.

I have a new newsletter post about policy predictions masquerading as financial advice. That such advice is often self-serving, without necessarily enriching the advisor, makes it less risky legally but perhaps more interesting in every other sense. https://t.co/vzVQ4MuDp9

@washingtonpost There are plenty of fundamental reasons why car insurance premiums have soared in the past five years, detailed in the article.

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I spoke to the @washingtonpost for this article. Nobody wants higher car insurance premiums, but let's not lose sight of what they are supposed to cover: the cost of compensating people, especially those outside of a vehicle, for harms caused by the driver.

This is basically how I explain to students the difference between litigation and transactional practice. Might need to add in the anatomical references.

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Nearly 6 years later, the acceleration of this trend—in full-remote and hybrid form—has reshaped daily routines for millions across the country. One big change post-2020 in rural areas specifically: the availability of Starlink.

The fundamental transportation question we face is how to build the network that will support @greg_shill and Jonathan Levine are off to a great start, and my colleague @rohanaras will be doing more on this soon https://t.co/yN1TQSB6Ga

Pulling this great point up from the comments on the post: "You basically get 77 years ‘for free’ as middle income nations like Turkey and Malaysia manage that. So I tend to think of the life expectancy gap with other rich countries as more like 300% than 6%."

New newsletter post on the interplay between aging (quantity of years), thriving in old age (quality), and transportation law and policy: https://t.co/90pf9nBJRG

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Transportation for the Abundant Society draft:

✨Abundance & Transportation✨ If you've sent me feedback on "Transportation for the Abundant Society" (draft w/ Jonathan Levine)—thank you! We are turning to revisions soon. If you're interested in reading—feedback most welcome! Abstract and contents here, link in next tweet.

Agree. I love this paper and assign and cite it all the time.

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One could argue that the best use-case for a Georgist land value tax (a concept I'm ambivalent about) is not thickly-settled prewar cities, where valuations hinge on regulation, but rather sunbelt growth metros, where low property taxes make it trivial to speculatively land-bank.

First week of class at ASU Law in the books! So great meeting new Contracts students and colleagues. In lieu of a hairy hand, sharing pix from main campus and the back seat of a Waymo.

🚨 Law profs: announcing the State and Local Government Law panel at AALS 2026: "Crisis and Capacity: State and Local Government Law in a Time of Constraint" As chair, and on behalf of the executive committee, I'm pleased to attach our CFP. Submit by 9/17. I'm happy to take Qs.

Interesting read. If the opportunity to choose where you'll live is the quintessential American freedom, there are two ways to defend it. One is to make it easier to build. But the other, complementary, approach is to make desirable places easier to access.

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Excited to read this!!