Professor Elmendorf Cited in Key Case for Housing Advocates

California’s First District Court of Appeal cited Professor Christopher Elmendorf in a decision that marked a victory for housing advocates, in California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund v. City of San Mateo.

Elmendorf’s 2019 Hastings Law Journal article “Beyond the Double Veto: Housing Plans as Preemptive Intergovernmental Compacts” was cited. Elmendorf filed an amicus brief in the case on behalf of Professor Darien Shanske and several other law professors.

Elmendorf wrote about the decision in a Twitter thread.

Christopher S. Elmendorf is a professor of law at UC Davis School of Law whose teaching and research interests include election law, administrative law, statutory interpretation, constitutional law, and property and natural resources law.