Spring 2027

Planning and the Legal System

Examines how the legal system influences community planning, covering the institutional framework for planning and legal authority for tools that create healthy, sustainable communities.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Julia Potter

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.67 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 90.5% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Analyze the legal and institutional contexts within which planning occurs.

  • Describe the operation and functioning of the legal system and its impact on planning.

  • Use basic legal research skills to perform specific tasks required in the practice of planning.

  • Find and analyze information from primary and secondary legal resources.

  • Write legal documents related to plan creation, implementation, and enforcement.

  • Recognize key issues of the ethics of public decision-making including the AICP Code of Ethics and state rules related to the unauthorized practice of law.

  • Examine the role of officials, stakeholders, and community members in planning in a democratic society.

  • Recognize sustainability, environmental quality, social justice, economic, and cultural factors in planning

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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  • Graduate/professional standing
URBRPL 833

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.67 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 90.5% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JULIA POTTER is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.75 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.67 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 90.5% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Legal system influence on community planning
  • Institutional framework for planning
  • Legal authority for planning tools creating healthy, sustainable communities
  • Ethics of public decision-making, AICP Code of Ethics, and unauthorized practice of law
  • Sustainability, environmental quality, social justice, economic, and cultural factors in planning

Skills

  • Basic legal research skills for planning tasks
  • Finding and analyzing primary and secondary legal resources
  • Writing legal documents for plan creation, implementation, and enforcement
  • Analyzing legal and institutional contexts of planning

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URBRPL 833 · Spring 2027

Planning and the Legal System

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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