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Historic Preservation Law: Obligations and Opportunities 2021


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  • Start Date:2021-06-09 20:00:00
  • End Date:2024-06-09 20:00:00
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  • Level:Intermediate
  • Topics:Real Property

$249.00 ProPass

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Overview

The preservation of historic resources by government action can, and has, occasionally generated controversies and even conflicts with other public policy goals and laws. The most common of these difficult cases are those that involve the preservation of historic resources that are in distressed condition, where the need for public safety may conflict with the public benefit of preservation. Public agencies involved in preservation must also be mindful of obligations to make their properties accessible to all persons and the need to reduce harmful environmental impacts.

In recent months, the preservation of certain buildings and objects that either remind us of painful history, or in some cases even glorifies it, has attracted concern both in the United States and internationally, raising some of the most fundamental questions about preservation as public policy and public law. This year’s CLE on Preservation Law will delve into these issues by providing the perspectives of the agencies involved, and attorneys who routinely deal with these matters in what will be a lively and informative discussion. 

All attendees will receive the course materials as a digital book.

Recorded in June 2021.

Faculty

Leonard Reuter Esq.

From 2002 through 2011, Mr. Reuter served in the City of Philadelphia Law Department as Assistant City Solicitor in the Code Unit where he represented the Philadelphia Historical Commission (PHC) among other agencies of the City. In 2011, he left the City Law Department and started his own private practice representing clients in historic preservation matters and other matters pertaining to municipal laws. Mr. Reuter returned to the City Law Department in 2016 and currently serves as a Senior Attorney and counsel to the Philadelphia Historical Commission and the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. Mr. Reuter also represents the City in cases before the Zoning Board of Adjustment, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Board of License and Inspection Review, and advises both the Department of Licenses and Inspections and the Department of Planning and Development. A graduate of the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, Mr. Reuter also earned a Master’s degree in Asian-Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Indiana University.

Jonathan Farnham Ph.D.

Mr. Farnham is the executive director of the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the City’s historic preservation regulatory agency, a position he has held since 2005. Before joining the Historical Commission, he taught architectural history and theory. He has lectured nationally on city planning, architectural history, and historic preservation and has published in the fields in American and European periodicals including the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Mr. Farnham holds a Ph.D. in architectural history, theory, and criticism and an M.A. in architecture from Princeton University’s School of Architecture and an M.A. in art history from the University of Massachusetts.

Maggy White Esq.

Ms. White is a Deputy City Solicitor in the Code and Public Nuisance Litigation Unit of the City of Philadelphia Law Department. Prior to working for the City of Philadelphia, Ms. White served for six years as a law clerk for Judge James Gardner Colins of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. She earned her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her J.D. from Temple University, Beasley School of Law.

J. Peter Byrne

Prof. Byrne holds the Baumgartner Chair in Real Property Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the co-author (with Prof. Sara Bronin) of Historic Preservation Law (Foundation Press 2012; 2d edition forthcoming), the first legal casebook on historic preservation law. He has written several law review articles on preservation law, including published Hallowed Ground: The Gettysburg Battlefield in Historic Preservation Law, 22 Tulane Envtl. L. Rev. 203 (2009), Historic Preservation and Its Cultured Despisers: Reflections on the Contemporary Role of Preservation Law in Urban Development, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev 665 (2012), and Penn Central in Retrospect: The Past and Future of Historic Preservation Law, forthcoming in the Georgetown Environmental Law Review. He has written extensively on other topics in Property and Constitutional Law. Prof. Byrne received his B.A. from Northwestern and his M.A. and J.D. from the University of Virginia. Before joining the Georgetown faculty in 1985, he served as a law clerk to Judge Frank Coffin and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell and then worked as an associate with the D.C. firm of Covington & Burling. He is also the Faculty Director of the Georgetown Climate Center and serves as the D.C. Mayor’s Agent Hearing Officer for Historic Preservation.


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