Author Biographies

• Author: David L. Callies/Daniel J. Curtin Jr./Julie A. Tappendorf
• Pages: 9-10

Authors

David L. Callies is the Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law at the William S.

Richardson School of Law, where he teaches property, land use, and state and

local government law. He holds law degrees from the University of Michigan

(J.D.) and Nottingham University (LL.M., town planning law) and is a life

member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Apast chair of the Hawaii State

Bar Association Section on Real Property and Financial Services and the

American Bar Association (ABA) Section on State and Local Government

Law,and coeditor of the annual Land Use and Environmental Law Review, he is

also an elected member of the American Law Institute and of the College of

Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners. The author of 12 books

and over 100 articles on property and land use, his coauthored casebooks on

land use and real property are widely used throughout the United States.

Daniel J. Curtin Jr. concentrates his practice on local government and land

use law representing both private and public sector clients. He is a member of

the firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP in the Walnut Creek office.

Mr.Curtin serves as Immediate Past Chair and on the Council, the governing

body,of the State and Local Government Law Section of the ABA. He was Past

Chair of the Land Development, Planning & Zoning Section of the Interna-

tional Municipal Lawyers Association (formerly NIMLO). He is past Vice

Chair of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the State

Bar of California. Mr.Curtin has also served as President of the City Attorneys’

Department of the League of California Cities, as a member of the Board of Di-

rectors of the League, and as Regional Vice President of the International Mu-

nicipal Lawyers Association.

In recognition of his extensive contributions to NIMLO and to the entire mu-

nicipal law community nationwide, as well as his years of leadership and ser-

vice to the legal profession, Mr. Curtin was honored with NIMLO’sCharles S.

Rhyne Awardfor Lifetime Achievement in Municipal Law. He is the recipient

of the American Planning Association’s National Distinguished Leadership

award for 20 years of writing, teaching, encouraging, and supporting planning

ideas. He also was named Honorary Life Member of the California Park and

Recreation Society in recognition of his exceptional service to the field of parks

and recreation.

Mr. Curtin is the author of numerous publications on California land use and

subdivision law, which have been cited frequently by the California Courts, in-

cluding Curtin’s California Land Use and Planning Law,published and revised

annually by Solano Press, Subdivision Map Act Manual, published by Solano

Press, and Subdivision Map Act and the Development Process, published by

California Continuing Education of the Bar, Berkeley, California. He is a fre-

quent lecturer for the University of California Extension and Continuing Edu-

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