Faculty Publications
Professor Kent joined the Campbell Law School faculty prior to the fall 2013 semester. His research has focused primarily on eminent domain, regulatory takings, and land use issues.
Prior to Campbell Law, Kent was a tenured faculty member at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, teaching courses in Real Property, Land Use Planning, Local Government Law, and Wills, Trusts & Estates. For several years, he also led courses in Professional Responsibility, and he is a past Fellow of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism. Kent served as a visiting professor at Stetson University College of Law from 2009-10, where he also taught courses in Real Property, Local Government Law, and Trusts & Estates.
Kent held nearly 10 years of legal experience before joining the academy, most recently with Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer in West Georgia, where his practice focused primarily on real estate development, land use, local government, and public utility regulation. Before entering private practice, Kent clerked for Judge J. Owen Forrester of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, as well as for Judge Emmett Ripley Cox of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
As a law student, Kent received the Marion F. Smith School of Law Scholarship, served as Articles Editor for the Georgia Law Review, and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.
Public Pension Reform and the Takings Clause
Viewing the Supreme Court's Exactions Cases Through the Prism of Anti-Evasion
Judicial Doctrine as Risk Regulation
Anti-Anti-Evasion in Constitutional Law
State Preemption of Local Land Use Ordinances and North Carolina's "Fracking" Legislation
Weakening the “Ripeness Trap” for Federal Takings Claims: Sansotta v. Town of Nags Head and Town of Nags Head v. Toloczko
Anti-Evasion Doctrines in Constitutional Law
More Questions Than Answers: Situating Judicial Takings Within Existing Regulatory Takings Doctrine
The World of Deadwood: Property Rights and the Search for Human Identity
Theoretical Tension and Doctrinal Discord: Analyzing Development Impact Fees as Takings
From “Preferred Position” to “Poor Relation:” History, Wilkie v. Robbins, and the Status of Property Rights Under the Takings Clause
Pavesich, Property and Privacy: The Common Origins of Property Rights and Privacy Rights