Planning & Environmental Law

Planning & Environmental Law is the must-read legal journal for planners, environmental managers, and land-use lawyers.

Planning & Environmental Law cover Each year, 11 issues provide expert analyses of today's legal trends, plus capsule summaries of 30 to 40 new federal and state court decisions and legislative acts. PEL is an essential guide to the legal landscape across the country and in your own backyard.

Current Issue:

Substantive Due Process and American Planning Law (subscriber access)

Equal Protection in Property and Planning (subscriber access)

Equal Protection Claim Gets a Foothold in Oregon (subscriber access)

Introducing the new PEL Online

The new PEL Online makes the full resources of Planning & Environmental Law available to everyone whose organization subscribes. It includes:

Portable PEL, introduced in 2012, a printable PDF of each issue — no more waiting for the office copy to circulate
PEL Archive, free downloads of articles from PEL and its predecessors — Zoning Digest and Land Use Law & Zoning Digest — going back to 1949
PEL Issues & Decisions, a searchable online database of court decisions and legislation from 2003 on
PEL Index, a database of all PEL abstracts and commentaries since 2005 (For prior years, see the annual index issues in the PEL Archive.)
PEL Brief, an e-newsletter guide to each new issue

New subscription options

PEL now offers three convenient options for subscribers:

PEL Premium Package	PEL Online	PEL Print
print edition plus full access to PEL Online features	all web-based features, including a printable PDF of each issue	print edition with access to the most recent two years of PEL Index

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Guidelines for Writers

A 26-member board of land use law experts reports and contributes many of the commentaries for Planning & Environmental Law. Authors interested in contributing a commentary are advised to explore past articles posted online and review the publication's guidelines for writers.

Guidelines for writers

Editorial Contact

Planning & Environmental Law is published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of the American Planning Association and is managed from APA's Washington office.

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