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 environmental

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

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

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

pal and Planning Law Reports, with case comments in its f‌irst volume

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

the land-use effects of some international trade treaties, Federal land-

use powers, and the sustainability potential 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 land 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.