B.B.A., University of Michigan
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
Dip. of Comp. Law, University of Stockholm

Property
Energy
Land Use
Urban Development

Following graduation with distinction from The University of Michigan Law School in 1964, where he served on the law review and was elected a member of the Order of the Coif, Professor Mogk practiced law with Shearman & Sterling in New York City. His practice included providing legal counsel to the pioneering program revitalizing the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York

He joined the Wayne Law faculty in 1968, one year after Detroit's major civil disturbance, to focus upon critical issues facing America's distressed urban communities. His work has included research, teaching and engagement in the field of urban law and policy on such issues as economic development, neighborhood rehabilitation and intergovernmental cooperation. Professor Mogk frequently contributes editorial commentary on critical urban issues to the major media outlets.

Professor Mogk has assumed many public leadership positions, including his recent position as Chair of the Michigan Council on Labor and Economic Growth and as past Chair of Habitat for Humanity Detroit from 1999 to 2006. He has been an adviser to the state, Wayne County and the City of Detroit on a variety of urban development initiatives, including the Michigan State Housing Development Authority and the City of Detroit Empowerment Zone program. He has also served on the Detroit Board of Education, Executive Committee of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments and Michigan Construction Code Commission. From 1974-1994 he was Executive Director of the Michigan Energy and Resource Research Association, a nonprofit state, university and industry scientific partnership developing renewable energy policy and projects for Michigan.

He has received special commendations from the Michigan Legislature and Detroit Common Council and was selected Outstanding Professor by the law school student body in 1979, 1983 and 1994, 1997 and 2003 and by the alumni in 1993. Professor Mogk was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Unites States (U.S. Jaycees) in 1973.

He teaches courses in Property, State and Local Government Law, Energy, Land Use Planning, and Urban Development. Professor Mogk was a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick in England during 1985-86, and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands in 2001. He has served as Editor of the Michigan International Lawyer, published by the State Bar of Michigan, and a Member of the State Bar's Land Title Standards Committee.

Urban Agriculture Policy Paper
Professor Mogk led two former students Sarah Kwiatkowski and Mary Jo Weindorf on an urban agriculture policty paper for the city of Detroit. The paper, titled “Promoting Urban Agriculture as an Alternative Land Use for Vacant Properties in the City of Detroit: Benefits, Problems and Proposals for a Regulatory Framework for Successful Land Use Integration,” was submitted to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh in August 2010 .

  Milliken v. Bradley Case

Eminent Domain and the ‘Public Use’: Michigan Supreme Court Legislates An Unprecedented Overruling of Poletown in County of Wayne v. Hathcock, 51 WAYNE L. REV. (2005)

A Tribute to Professor Edward J. Littlejohn, 43 WAYNE L. REV. 1 (1997)

The Evolving Regulation of Combined Heat and Power in the United States, 1 UTILITIES L. REV 19 (1990)

PURPA and the Evolving Regulation of Cogeneration - A Guide for Prospective Cogenerators Focusing on the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Facility, 35 WAYNE L. REV. 1051 (with F. Lepley Jr.) (1989)

Anglo-American Energy Policy: Combined Heat and Power in the United Kingdom and the United States, 8 URBAN LAW AND POLICY 131 (1986)

Urban Renewal After the 1974 Housing Act, 52 U. DET. L.J. 947 (1975)

Survey of the Law of Real Property [in Michigan], 16 WAYNE L. REV. 835 (with R. Bartke) (1970)