Irving Schiffman
Professor Emeritus
Office: Butte 720
Telephone: (530) 898-4512
Email: ischiffman@csuchico.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Science, University
of California, Davis, 1974
Title of Dissertation: The Planning
Commission in the City Planning Process: A Study of Three Communities
J.D., New York University School
of Law, 1963
B.A., Government, College of the
City of New York, 1960
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Department of Political
Science, California State University, Chico, 1970 - Present (appointed
Professor 1979).
Chair, Department of Political Science,
California State University, Chico, 1988 - 1993
Director, Masters' Program in Rural
and Town Planning, California State University, Chico, 1988 - 1992.
Visiting Professor, School for Overseas
Students, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1993-94, 1985-86
Director, California State University
and Colleges International Program in Jerusalem, 1993-94, 1985-86, 1978-79.
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Architecture
and Town Planning, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1982-1983
Consultant, Israel Environmental
Protection Service, 1978-1979.
Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty
of Architecture and Town Planning, Israel Institute of Technology, 1975-1976.
Consultant, Office of the Advisor
on Environment, Haifa, Israel, 1976.
Research Associate, Institute of
Governmental Affairs, University of California, Davis, 1969-1970
Teaching Associate, University of
California, Davis, 1967-1969.
Teaching Fellow, Indiana State University,
1966-1967.
Member of the New York Bar: Associate,
Law firm of Rosenberg and Rosenberg, New York City, 1965; Associate,
Law Firm of Tenzer, Greenblatt,
Fallon and Kaplan, New York City, 1964-1965.
Law Clerk to Hon. John P. Hartigan,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1963-1964.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
"The Property Rights Challenge:
What's a Planner to Do, Planning Commissioners Journal (Winter 1996).
Local Visioning Processes for
Economic Development, CenterWorking Paper Series
95-IW. Center for Economic Development,
California State University, Chico,
1995.
Alternative Techniques for Managing
Growth (University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Governmental
Studies,
1990)
Alternative Techniques for Controlling
Land Use: A Guide for Small Cities and Rural Areas in California, Revised
Edition.
University Center for Economic Development
and Planning, California State university, Chico, 1989.
"Land Use Planning and Economic
Development: The Need for Integration and Innovation," in John G. S Anzone,
ed.,
Issues in Economic Development,
University Center for Economic Development and Planning, California State
University, Chico, 1987
"Determination and Accommodation:
Israel's Environmental Protection Service," Jerusalem Letter , Jerusalem
Center
for Public Affairs, April 1987
"Towards a More Effective Environmental
Impact Statement Process in Israel," Israel Environment Bulletin
(Spring - Summer,
1986).
"The Environmental Impact Statement
Comes to Israel," Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 5
(Spring,
1985).
"Viewpoint," Planning (October,
1984)
"Saving California Farmland: The
Politics of Preservation," Landscape Planning Vol. 9 (1983).
Alternative Techniques for Controlling
Land Use: A Guide for Small Cities and Rural Areas in California, Institute
of
Governmental Affairs, University
of California, Davis, January, 1983.
"Teaching State Politics: California,"
News for Teachers of Political Science (American Political Science
Association, Summer,
1982).
"Local Environmental Protection
Units," Biosphere, February, March, April, 1980, 3 installments.
Jerusalem: Israel
Environmental Protection Service
(in Hebrew).
The Politics of Land Use Planning
and Zoning: A Review Essay and Annotated Bibliography, Institute of
Governmental Affairs,
University of California, Davis,
1977.
The Limits of the Local Planning
Commission, Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California,
Davis, 1975.
"Senatorial Discourtesy: The Nomination
of Francis X. Morrissey," in Robert Ross, ed., Public Choice and Public
Power
(Markham, 1971).
Escaping the Shroud of Anonymity:
Justice Jackson and the Income Tax Case," Tennessee Law Review (Winter,
1970).
"Howell Edmunds Jackson," in Leon
Friedman and Fred L. Israel, eds., The Justices of the United States Supreme
Court
1789-1969,4 Volumes, (New York:
Chelsea House, 1969).
"Melville Weston Fuller," in Leon
Friedman and Fred L. Israel, The Justices of the United United States
Supreme Court 1789-1969, 4 Volumes, (New York: Chelsea House, 1969).
BOOK REVIEWS
Review, "Growth Management: The
Planning Challenge of the 1990's," Journal of the American Planning
Association
(Autumn 1993)
Review, "Planning Small Town America:
Observations, Sketches and a Reform Proposal," Journal of the American
Planning Association (Spring
1991)
Review, "Planting the Grassroots:
Structuring Citizen Participation," Perspectives on Political Science
(Spring 1990)
Review, "Saving America's Countryside:
A Guide to Rural Conservation," Journal of the American Planning Association
(Winter 1990)