Partner
dmerriam@rc.com
280 Trumbull Street
Hartford, CT 06103-3597
Phone: 860-275-8228 Fax: 860-275-8299
Dwight Merriam represents developers, local governments, landowners, and advocacy groups in land development and conservation issues. He has published over 180 professional articles on land use law, coedited Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown, coauthored The Takings Issue, and authored The Complete Guide to Zoning.
He is a Fellow and past president of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a former director of the American Planning Association (APA), and a previous chair of APA’s Planning & Law Division. He is also a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and The Counselors of Real Estate, and he teaches land use law at Vermont Law School. Mr. Merriam has been named to the Connecticut Super Lawyers® list in the area of Land Use Law since 2006 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.).
Mr. Merriam 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 J.D. at Yale Law School.
EDUCATION
| — | J.D., Yale University School of Law |
| — | M.R.P., University of North Carolina, planning |
| — | B.A., cum laude, University of Massachusetts |
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
| — | American Bar Association, 1978 to present, Chair-elect of the Section of State & Local Government Law (2009 to present); Liaison to the ABA Journal, Section of State & Local Government (2003 to present); Member of President Dennis Archer's Working Group on Protecting the Rights of Service Members, Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel (2003 to present) |
| — | American Boat Builders and Repairers Association, 1995 to 1997, Director |
| — | American College of Real Estate Lawyers |
| — | American Institute of Certified Planners, Fellow and past President |
| — | American Planning Association, former Director and previous Chair of Planning & Law Division |
| — | The Counselors of Real Estate |
| — | Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) |
| — | Vermont Law School, 1994 to present, Faculty |
| — | University of Connecticut School of Law, 2009 to 2010 |
