Biography
 |
Robert H. Freilich
Visiting Professor
B.A., University of Chicago
J.D., Yale
M.I.A., Columbia University
LL.M, Columbia University
D.Sc., Columbia University
freilich@law.ucla.edu |
Robert H. Freilich is a partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Freilich & Popowitz, LLP. He is professor of law emeritus from the University of Missouri School of Law, in Kansas City. During his distinguished career, he has represented the public and private sector and has developed and implemented land use plans and systems for more than 250 cities, counties and states from San Diego to Boston, and Monterey to the Florida Keys. He has specialized in obtaining government approval of complex development projects for the public and private sector. Professor Freilich has appeared as an expert witness in more than 30 cases for public and private clients nationwide and was appointed as special master by the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Missouri in U.S. v. Conservation Chemical Co., the most complex superfund case in the nation.
Professor Freilich is the national editor of The Urban Lawyer; director of the Annual Planning and Zoning Institute of the American Center For National and International Law; past-chair of the Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association; serves on the Advisory Boards of the Land Use and Environmental Law Review and the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute; and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the Urban Land Institute and the Congress of New Urbanism.
He is co-author of the leading casebook in the field, Cases and Materials on Land Use, Thomson-West (6th ed. 2011); co-author of the “21st Century Land Development Code,” American Planning Association, May 2008 and has recently written “From Sprawl To Sustainability: Smart Growth, New Urbanism, Green Development and Renewable Energy,” published by the American Bar Association in June 2010.
Professor Freilich received his A.B. degree from the University of Chicago, holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School and M.I.A., LL.M. and Doctor of the Science of Law degrees from Columbia University. In 1968, he became Hulen Professor in Urban Affairs and Planning at the University of Missouri. He has served as visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School (1984-1985), the London School of Economics (1974-1975) and the University of Miami School of Law (1996-1997). Professor Freilich has previously taught at the law school, Seminar in Sustainability and Green Development (spring, 2010) and Land Use Law (spring, 2011).