SCOCA Symposium 2020
State and Local Control: California’s Battle Over Housing
Thursday January 30, 2020
Alumni Reception Center (“ARC”)
Join Hastings Law Journal for our annual “SCOCA” symposium at UC Hastings College of the Law. Our theme this year is California’s state and local control battle over housing, including bills like SB 35, (proposed) SB 50, and related litigation. The symposium will feature a practitioner panel of attorneys discussing the background and impact of these legislative efforts today, and an academic panel covering the different dimensions of growth and housing in the state. Topics of the academic panel will include smart growth and environmental considerations, jurisdictional spillover from metro areas to smaller localities, structural politics and home rule, and real world data and results on dense infill development.
We will conclude with a keynote address from State Senator Scott Wiener, who authored SB 35 and SB 50. A reception in the Alumni Reception Center will follow. We are in the process of applying for MCLE credit; please check back on this event page for updates.
Sponsors: Holland & Knight, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Agenda
2:30 – 2:45 pm – Welcome & Opening Remarks from HLJ
2:45 – 4:00 pm – Practitioner Viewpoints: Housing Legislation Since 2017 and the Impact Today
Speakers:
Barbara Kautz, Partner at Goldfarb & Lipman LLP
Daniel Golub, Attorney at Holland & Knight
Randy Shaw, Executive Director at Tenderloin Housing Clinic
Kevin Siegel, Partner at Burke, Williams & Sorenson
Moderator: Professor Dave Owen, UC Hastings
4:00 – 4:15 pm – Break
4:15 – 5:30 pm – Analyzing Housing Growth, Structural Politics, and Results in California
Speakers:
Ethan Elkind, Director, Climate Program, Center for Law, Energy & Environment, UCLA Law and Berkeley Law
Professor Eric Biber, Berkeley Law
Moira O’Neill, Senior Research Fellow, Berkeley Law; Associate Research Scholar, GSAPP & Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University
Professor Christopher Elmendorf, UC Davis Law
Moderator: Leigha Beckman, HLJ SCOCA Editor, UC Hastings
5:30 – 6:30 - Keynote Address by State Senator Scott Wiener
6:30 – 8:00 pm - Reception
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