Professor Alan Weinstein spoke on October 9 at the National Signage Research Conference at the University of Cincinnati. Professor Weinstein was part of a panel presentation, “Reassessing the Importance of Sign Law in the Planning Law Curriculum,” with Eric Strauss, Professor of Urban & Regional Planning and Director of Graduate Programs in the School of Planning, Design and Construction at Michigan State, and Dawn Jourdan, Associate Professor and Director of the Regional & City Planning Program at the University of Oklahoma.

In their presentation, the panelists argued that there is a mismatch between the importance accorded to sign regulation in most planning law courses and the importance sign regulation has in planning practice at the local government level. Each panelist then demonstrated how each has integrated sign regulation  into the planning law course and concluded with a discussion that compared and contrasted their various approaches.