Perpetual Conservation Easements: What Have We Learned and Where Should We Go From Here?

In the spring of 2013, the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law hosted a conference entitled Perpetual Conservation Easements: What Have We Learned and Where Should We Go From Here? 

Videos from the conference can be viewed here and include presentations by:

• Karin Gross, Supervisory Attorney, IRS Office of Chief Counsel;

• Roger Colinvaux. Associate Professor, Catholic University Columbus School of Law, and former counsel for the Joint Committee on Taxation;

• Marion R. Fremont-Smith, Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University;

• Mark A. Pacella, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Charitable Trusts and Organizations Section, Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General; and

• Terry M. Knowles, Assistant Director, Charitable Trusts Unit, Department of Attorney General of New Hampshire.

The Utah Law Review has published a conference edition featuring the following eight articles by speakers at the conference.

• Nancy A. McLaughlin (University of Utah), Perpetual Conservation Easements in the 21st Century: What Have We Learned and Where Should We Go From Here?, 2013 Utah L. Rev. 687

• Theodore S. Sims (Boston University), Qualified Conservation Restrictions: Recollections of and Reflections on the Origins of Section 170(h), 2013 Utah L. Rev. 727

• Roger Colinvaux (Catholic University), Conservation Easements: Design Flaws, Enforcement Challenges, and Reform, 2013 Utah L. Rev. 755

• K. King Burnett (Uniform Law Commissioner), The Uniform Conservation Easement Act: Reflections of a Member of the Drafting Committee, 2013 Utah L. Rev. 773

• Michael Allan Wolf (University of Florida), Conservation Easements and the “Term Creep” Problem, 2013 Utah L. Rev. 787

• Nancy A. McLaughlin (University of Utah) & Jeff Pidot (Former Chief of the Natural Resources Division, Maine Attorney General’s Office), Conservation Easement Enabling Statutes: Perspectives on Reform, 2013 Utah L. Rev. 811

• Melanie B. Leslie (Cardozo School of Law), Conservation Easements as Charitable Property: Fiduciary Duties and the Limits of Charitable Self-Regulation, 2013 Utah L. Rev. 849

• Terry M. Knowles (Assistant Director of Charitable Trusts, New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office), Amending or Terminating Conservation Easements: The New Hampshire Experience, 2013 Utah L. Rev. 871