Nelson Institute Professor Harvey Jacobs has had a busy winter-spring of guest lectures and teaching. In February he gave a lecture at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning under the sponsorship of the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies. In early March he was in Taiwan, where he gave lectures at the Department of Real Estate and Built Environment, National Taipei University, and continued UW’s longstanding relationship with the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training, teaching a one-week short course as part of the institute’s 102nd Regular Session on Land Policy for Sustainable Rural Development. In late March he was in Spain, where he taught a short course at the University of Santiago de Compostela and assisted his host in the design of a new master’s program in rural land management. In April he delivered the keynote address to an invitational conference for journalists at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and immediately afterwards went to the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to teach a short course as part of the institute’s one-year master’s degree in urban studies.
Prof. Jacobs is the author of a featured articled in the April issue of Land Lines, the Lincoln Institute quarterly magazine: “Social Conflict Over Property Rights.”