Library

Welcome to Paul’s Library! In addition to his roles as a mediator and attorney, Paul Weinberg is also an educator and author of many articles on real estate law. Here you’ll find many of Paul’s articles on real estate topics.

Paul writes for numerous legal and planning journals, among them West’s Zoning and Planning Law Report, The University of California’s Continuing Education of the Bar, and the State Bar of California’s Real Property Law Journal. Paul has been sharing his knowledge by writing throughout his entire legal career. He affiliated with the University of California’s Continuing Education of the Bar to write the entire chapter on Quiet Title for their seminal volume, California Real Property Remedies and Damages, and served as an editor on CEB’s California Real Estate Brokers Law and Litigation. As an authority on real estate law, Paul has been quoted in USA Today, interviewed by Larry Mantle’s AirTalk on KPCC, and been interviewed by KNBC Television in Los Angeles regarding boundary line and view issues. He has been interviewed by Architect, the national magazine of the American Institute of Architects, and by Hanley-Wood’s Residential Architect, on mediation topics.

Meet Paul Weinberg, UCI Professor, Course Introduction Video:

Real Estate Transactions/MFIN 290

These sample articles from Paul’s writings are listed here, and can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat pdf format:

Zoning & Planning Law Report, November 2023:
Mansion Taxes and the Homeless Problem: Take from the Rich and Give to the Poor?
Article from Law360, June 2023:
LA’s High-Value Real Estate Transfer Tax Should Be Scrapped
Article from Law360, October 2022:
The Thorny Road Ahead For Fractional Home Ownership
Article from Law360, March 2019:
Mansion Development May Impair Cities’ Land Use Oversight
Article from Zoning and Planning Report, September 2017:
Granny Flats: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Or Yet Another Incursion into The Peace And Quiet Of A Neighborhood?
An Article from Orange County Lawyer, September 2017:
Seawalls In California:The Supreme Court Speaks To The Power Of The Coastal Commission
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, February 2014:
Nuisance and the Beach: How Much Control Should a State
Exercise Over Beach Fire Rings
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, February 2013:
Mansionization and its Ordinances: How’s That Working Out
For You
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, December 2011:
Trees and Neighbors: When Is a View So Valuable That It
Should Be Litigated?
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, February 2011:
Aesthetics and Cell Towers: Cities and Carriers Duking it Out
in the Courts
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, December 2009:
The Shopping Center as Hyde Park Corner:
Free Speech or Invasion of Property Rights?
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, October 2008:
Alcohol and Drug Rehab Homes; Classic Nimbyism or Everyone’s
Fair Share
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, August 2007:
The City of Anaheim, California and Disney:
How Much Say Does the Mouse Get on What Gets Built?
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, August 2006:
Cell Towers and Aesthetics: Blight on the Neighborhood or
Sign of the Times?
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, October 2005:
Zoning for Aesthetics Who Decides What Your House Will Look Like?
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, April 2004:
Architectural Copycats: Whose House Are You Building, Anyway?
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, March 2003:
The First Church of Costco: Land Grab for Tax Revenue or
Preferential Treatment of Churches?
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, March 2002:
The Greenlight Initiative and Ballot Box Zoning:
California Tea Party and Harbinger of Things to Come?
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, October 2001:
Marine Forests Society v California Coastal Commission:
Comeuppance for a Bully or Legitimizing the Last Protector
of California’s Coastline?
An Article From Zoning and Planning Law Report, March 2001:
Monster Homes: How Big a House is Too Much?

See Paul’s Author Profile for his CEB legal writing contributions:

Contributors Profile