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About the Authors Jay E. Austin is a Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and Director of ELI's Endangered Environmental Laws Program, which focuses on federalism issues. He has worked extensively in the Institute's domestic and international programs, and authored or co-authored numerous ELI research reports and articles in The Environmental Forum, the Environmental Law Reporter, and other journals. Mr. Austin received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and law degree from the University of Virginia, where he was a Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar and Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review. Jennifer Bradley is the Federalism Project Director at Community Rights Counsel (CRC). Prior to joining CRC, Ms. Bradley was a senior policy analyst at the Brookings Institution's Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy, where she worked on metropolitan development and urban sprawl issues. A former journalist, Ms. Bradley has written for The New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly, the American Prospect, and the Washington Monthly. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Bradley holds a master's degree from Oxford University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas. Timothy J. Dowling is Chief Counsel of Community Rights Counsel (CRC). As head of CRC's litigation program, Mr. Dowling has represented State and local government clients in appellate courts around the country, with special emphasis on challenges under the Takings, Supremacy, and Commerce Clauses. He is co-author of CRC's TAKINGS LITIGATION HANDBOOK: DEFENDING TAKINGS CHALLENGES TO LAND USE REGULATIONS (AMERICAN LEGAL PUBLISHING 2000), and has written numerous articles. Before joining CRC, Mr. Dowling worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he received the Attorney General's "John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement." Prior to his public service, he worked at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson. Mr. Dowling received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame. Douglas T. Kendall is Community Rights Counsel's (CRC) founder and Executive Director. As CRC's Executive Director, he has represented State and local government clients in Constitutional cases in state and federal appellate courts around the country and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is widely published in outlets ranging from the Virginia Law Review, to the Environmental Law Reporter, to the opinion page of The Washington Post. Mr. Kendall is co-author of TAKINGS LITIGATION HANDBOOK: DEFENDING TAKINGS CHALLENGES TO LAND USE REGULATIONS (AMERICAN LEGAL PUBLISHING 2000). Between 1999 and 2001, he served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia Graduate Planning Program, where he taught a course on legal issues in land-use planning. Mr. Kendall received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia. James E. Ryan is an Academic Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law, land use law, law and education, and local government law, among other topics. Mr. Ryan has authored or co-authored articles on school finance, school desegregation, school choice, and school governance, which have appeared in the Yale, University of Michigan, Virginia, and New York University law reviews. After graduating law school, he clerked for the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then clerked for the Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States. Mr. Ryan received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his law degree from the University of Virginia, where he served on the managing board of the Virginia Law Review. Jason C. Rylander is an attorney at Defenders of Wildlife. He formerly was Community Rights Counsel's (CRC) Litigation and Policy Counsel. Mr. Rylander has participated in constitutional cases in federal and state appellate courts, and advocates for environmental issues in Congress. Prior to joining CRC, he was an associate at the law firm of Perkins Coie, LLP, and served the environmental community in positions with The Conservation Fund and the National Wildlife Federation. A former managing editor of the Land Letter, a trade newsletter covering natural resource policy, and as a freelance writer, Mr. Rylander has published numerous articles on environmental and land use issues. He holds a B.A. in Government from Cornell University and a J.D. from the William & Mary School of Law.
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