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Smith Babcock Williams Writing Competition Deadline for entries: June 9, 2008 Entries are now being accepted for the 2008 competition. Click here to download the guidelines.
The Planning & Law Division of the American Planning Association announces its Twenty-fifth Annual Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition. The Competition, which honors the memory of three leading figures in American city planning law — R. Marlin Smith, Richard Babcock, and Norman Williams — is open to law students and planning students, writing on a question of significance in planning, planning law, land use law, local government law or environmental law. The winning entry will be awarded a prize of $2,500 and will be submitted for publication in The Urban Lawyer, the law journal of the American Bar Association's Section of State & Local Government Law. In addition to the first prize, the Competition will offer a second place prize of $1,000 and up to two Honorable Mentions of $250. The deadline for submission of entries is June 9, 2008 and the winners will be announced by September 15, 2008. Please refer to the official rules for further details.
2007 Winners The entry awarded first prize in the 2007 was "Constructing the Special Theater Subdistrict: Culture, Politics, and Economics in the Creation of Transferable Development Rights," submitted by Michael Kruse, a 2007 graduate of New York University School of Law. Mr. Kruse's entry was submitted for publication in The Urban Lawyer. The entry awarded second prize in the 2007 competition was "Broadened Notions of Historic Preservation and the Role of Neighborhood Conservation Districts," submitted by Adam Lovelady, who will graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2008. Honorable Mention awards were given to "Powerful Tool or Insurmountable Obstacle: The Relationship Between Eminent Domain and the Affordable Housing Crisis," submitted by Emily Stubbs, who will graduate from J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 2008 and "Tax Incentives for Historic Preservation Easement Donations: A Review of New Reforms Under the Pension Protection Act of 2006," submitted by Melaina Jobs, who will graduate from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2008.
2006 Winners First Prize 2006 "Productive Preservation and the Reinvention of Industrial America" Second Prize 2006 "Balancing Community Needs and Individual Property Rights Post-Kelo: A State Legislature's Guide to Drafting Urban Planning-Based Statutes" Honorable Mentions 2006 "Unplanned Change, Challenging Tradition in Land Use Controls: The Case of New Haven's Planned Development District" "The Legalities of Stream Interventions: Accretive Changes to New York State's Riparian Doctrine Ahead?"
2005 Winners First Prize 2005 "Urban
Height Restrictions Without Law: A Philadelphia Story" Honorable Mention "Covenants,
Conditions, and Restrictions ... on Free Speech? First Amendment Rights
in Common-Interest Communities" "Subordinate
or Fundamental Rights in Property? Special Benefits and Givings Recapture
in Determining Just Compensation"
2004 Winners First Prize 2004 "Cutting Through the Clause: The Land Use Planning Impacts of Moving 'Partial
Takings' from Political Theory to Legal Reality" Honorable Mention "Planning for Biodiversity Protection: Policy Lessons from Regional Planning
for Affordable Housing" "Narrowing the Public Use Doctrine: State Courts Take Back the Takings Clause"
2003 Winners First Prize 2003 "Preservation of Historic Properties' Environs: American & French
Approaches" Honorable Mention "Inner-Ring Suburbs and 'Economic Blight': Should Economic
Rationales Alone be Enough to Justify Use of Eminent Domain as a Means of Urban
Redevelopment?" "Effective Land Use Policy and Legislation in China: The Key to the Future
of Urban Development of the World's Most Populous Nation"
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