Barrie Needham is emeritus professor of spatial planning, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Edwin Buitelaar is a professor of land and real estate development at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, senior researcher on urban development at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), and research fellow at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate (ASRE).

Thomas Hartmann is associate professor at the Land Use Planning Group of Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands, and affiliated to the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies of the JEP University (UJEP) in Ústi nad Labem, Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, Czech Republic.

1. Why Planning, Law and Economics Matter 2. Property Rights in Land and Buildings 3. Planning Law 4. Citizens' Rights in Spatial Planning 5. Law and Policy Effectiveness and Efficiency in Spatial Planning 6. Law and Economic Welfare in Spatial Planning 7. Law and Justice in Spatial Planning 8. Law and Legitimacy in Spatial Planning 9. Using the Law in Practice