Frank Schnidman

Biography: Frank Schnidman is the former John M. DeGrove Eminent Scholar Chair at the School of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida Atlantic University, after having been awarded the Henry D. Epstein Distinguished Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Chair. He taught both redevelopment and economic development courses. He retired from teaching at the end of the Summer 2016 semester, and now writes, consults and organizes and chairs numerous seminars and conferences. He is also currently mentoring faculty and student design teams in FAU’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering on community engagement projects to design structures to implement community visions in distressed South Florida urban areas. Schnidman has a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree (1973) and a Masters of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Environmental Law, with Highest Honors (1975) and has spent more than thirty years dealing with sophisticated land policy and land use regulatory issues as both a practicing attorney and as an academic. He is admitted to practice law in California, Florida, New York and the District of Columbia. He has represented parties, amicus curiae, in the U. S. Supreme Court in Agins v. Tiburon (1980) and Kelo v. New London (2005). Schnidman practiced law with the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig, after serving as the Director of the University of Miami School of Law Graduate Program in Real Property Development. He is a leader in continuing professional education, having chaired American Law Institute-American Bar Association land use related programs since 1977, as well as organized and participated in over 100 other seminars and conferences in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia. His 33rd Annual Land Use Institute was held April 12-13, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. In Florida, he is recognized as one of the leading experts concerning redevelopment and Community Redevelopment Agencies (CRAs). He is the founding Executive Director of one