HAAR, Charles M(onroe)

HAAR, Charles M(onroe). American, b. 1920. Genres: Regional/Urban planning. Career: Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1972 (Associate Professor, 1952-54; Professor, 1954-56 and 1966-72). Chairman, Joint Center for Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard University, Cambridge, since 1969. Admitted to New York Bar, 1949; in law practice, NYC, 1949-52; Assistant Secretary, Metropolitan Development, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, 1966-69. Former Chairman, President's Task Force on Natural Beauty, and President's Commission on Suburban Problems. Publications: Land Planning Law in a Free Society, 1959; Land- Use Planning, 1959, 3rd ed. as Land Use Planning: A Casebook on the Use, Misuse and Reuse of Urban Land, 1977; Federal Credit and Private Housing, 1960; Law and Land, 1964, 2nd ed. as Property and Law, 1985; Golden Age of American Law, 1966; The End of Innocence, 1972; Housing the Poor in Suburbia, 1974; Between the Idea and the Reality, 1975; (with others) Transfer of Development Rights: A Primer, 1981; (with D.W. Fessler) Wrong Side of the Tracks, 1986; (with D.W. Fessler) Fairness and Justice: Law in the Service of Equality, 1987; (with J.S. Kayden) Landmark Justice: The Influence of William J. Brennan Jr. on America's Communities, 1988; Suburbs Under Siege, Race, Space, and Audacious Judges, 1996. EDITOR: Housing in the Eighties: Financial and Institutional Perspective, 1984; Cities, Law, and Social Policy: Learning from the British, 1984; Judges, Politics and Flounders: Perspectives on the Cleaning up of Boston Harbor, 1986; (with Kayden) Zoning at Sixty: Mediating Public and Private Rights, 1990. Address: 1121 Crandon Blvd. - F603, Key Biscayne, FL 33149, U.S.A.