He gives regular CLE courses to Members of Congress and has testified before congressional committees on property rights legislation. Mr. Meltz also has spoken widely at takings law conferences and CLE courses. He has authored several articles on takings law such as Takings Law Today: A Primer for the Perplexed, forthcoming in the Ecology Law Quarterly, and Wetlands Regulation and the Law of Regulatory Takings, 30 Envtl. L. Rptr. 10468 (2000), and coauthored a book entitled The Takings Issue: Constitutional Limits on Land Use Controls and Environmental Regulation (Island Press 1999). He has served on the steering committees of the environment sections of both the District of Columbia Bar and Federal Bar Association. B.A., M.A., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center.