Brian Blaesser
Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design
Department of Urban Planning and Design
Brian W. Blaesser is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the GSD and at the Kennedy School of Government. 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 (Thomson-West: 11th ed. 2008), and is an author and co-editor of the books Redevelopment: Planning, Law and Project Implementation (ABA Publishing: 2008); Federal Land Use Law & Litigation (Thomson-West: 2007), Condemnation of Property: Practice and Strategies for Winning Just Compensation (Wiley Law Publications: 1994), and Land Use and the Constitution: Principles for Planning Practice (Planners Press: 1989). 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.