Dwight Merriam is a lawyer and land use planner. He has published over 200 professional articles on land use law, and authored or edited five books: Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown, The Takings Issue, The Complete Guide to Zoning, Eminent Domain Use and Abuse: Kelo in Context, and At the Cutting Edge 2008. He is a Fellow and Past President of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a former Director of the American Planning Association (APA), and Past Chair of APA's Planning & Law Division. Dwight is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and was elected in 2008 to be one of the 50 United States members of the Anglo-American Real Property Institute. He is also a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the Counselors of Real Estate. He teaches land use law at Vermont Law School. Dwight received his B.A. in sociology (cum laude) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was also elected to Phi Kappa Phi. He received his Master of Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Juris Doctor at Yale Law School.