Pearlman, FAICP, Esq., is Professor of City and Regional Planning and formerly Adjunct Professor of Law at The Ohio State University. He is the Head of Ohio State’s City and Regional Planning program. A former editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the founder and former editor of the Journal of Planning Literature, Professor Pearlman has authored law review and journal articles on land use and environmental regulation. He has served on a board of zoning appeals and is currently a member of the Municipal Planning Commission of the City of Worthington, Ohio. He holds an A.B. degree, cum laude in Philosophy and a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. degree from Columbia University. He is a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars.