About the author

• Author: Howard Epstein
• Pages: 669-669

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Howard Epstein is a Nova Scotia lawyer who has pract ised, taught, and

written about land use planning law for decades. His env ironmental

and municipal interests led to hi s involvement in precedent-setting ma-

jor Halifax land-use cases in t he 1970s and 1980s. He has worked in

Ottawa and in Toronto. He has long been a contributor to the Munici-

pal and Planning L aw Reports, with case comments in its f‌ir st volume

in 1976–77, as well as contributing contemporary articles exploring

the land-use effects of some inter national trade tre aties, Federal land-

use powers, and the sustainability potentia l of local governments. Mr

Epstein was elected to Halifax’s city council in 1994 and to the council

of Halifax Regional Municipality upon amalgamation in 1996. Subse-

quently, he was elected as a member of the Nova Scotia legislature for

f‌ive terms. He taught land use and l and use planning law at Dalhousie

University’s Schulich School of Law from 1998 through 2013 as an ad-

junct member of the Faculty of Law and of the School of Planning.