Brian Blaesser

Member of Faculty
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Non Resident
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox NR
79 JFK Street
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Brian Blaesser, Visiting Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design. He is a partner in the Boston office of the law firm of Robinson & Cole LLP where he heads the Land Use & Real Estate Development Group. He practices in the areas of residential and commercial real estate development and redevelopment, leasing, economic development, land use and environmental law, planning law, condemnation law and litigation. Mr. Blaesser is the author of the book, Discretionary Land Use Controls: Avoiding Invitations to Abuse of Discretion , 2008), and is an author and co-editor of the books Redevelopment: Planning, Law and Project Implementation, Federal Land Use Law & Litigation, Condemnation of Property: Practice and Strategies for Winning Just and Land Use and the Constitution: Principles for Planning Practice. Mr. Blaesser received his B.A. from Brown University cum laude, and his J.D. from Boston College where he served as an editor of the Law Review. He also holds a masters in city planning (M.C.P.) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and was a Fulbright Scholar.

 

Courses

Fall

  • HUT-263 Planning and Environmental Law

Spring

  • HUT-268 Public and Private Development