Economic Development Law for North Carolina Local Governments

A book about the law that frames and guides economic development programs undertaken by North Carolina local governments. It focuses on topics that have attracted legislative and judicial attention, such as economic development incentives.

Chapters cover constitutional issues affecting economic development programs, the statutory authority for such programs, statutory procedures governments must follow, financing economic development, possible organizational forms within local government, and incentives offered by the State of North Carolina to companies locating or expanding within the state.

Several recent publications by faculty member Tyler Mulligan are essential companions to this book:

• Economic Development Incentives and North Carolina Local Governments: A Framework for Analysis, 91 N.C. L. Rev. 2021 (2013). Free download available from the North Carolina Law Review website.
• Financing and Public-Private Partnerships for Community Economic Development in Introduction to Local Government Finance (3d Ed.) (Chapter 14)
• When May NC Local Governments Pay an Economic Development Incentive?, available for free on the School of Government blog, Community and Economic Development in North Carolina and Beyond.