Here are all the posts from the 8th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, held this year in Beijing, China:
At the U.S. Embassy in Beijing last Thursday, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was presented this year’s Brigham-Kanner prize. She was not able to attend in person, so delivered her acceptance speech by videotape. In her talk, she discussed the property-related opinions which she either authored or joined, including Midkiff, Nollan, Dolan, Yee
One conference down, one to go.
We’re on the way back from the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing, and on our way to the California State Bar Environmental Law Section’s annual conference at Yosemite N.P., which begins later this week. More information about the conference here.
Along with U.C. Berkeley law professor Joseph
There were many memorable moments and quotes during the three-plus days of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing. But perhaps the most telling came our way second-hand from an ear witness:
At the farewell banquet, a prominent American lawyer was toasting the Tsinghua University Law School students, raising his class with the salute “to
Well, we were beset by a series of technical difficulties yesterday (the internet connection suddenly spit us out, we were unable to log back on, our laptop just shut off, followed by mysterious battery problems), so we were not able to continue the live blog.(Was it something we said?)
That’s ok, since by then it
We break from our Brigham-Kanner Conference programming to bring you this development. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued its first post-Tohono O’Odham Nation v. United States opinion, Trusted Integration, Inc. v. United States, No. 2010-5142 (Oct. 14, 2011), involving the Court of Federal Claims’ subject matter jurisdiction
In the hallway of the main building of the Tsinghua Law School is an electronic billboard with notices of upcoming events and classes.
This is what they are studying at Chinese law schools.
Any questions?
Most interesting comments at tonight’s event awarding the Brigham-Kanner prize to Justice (Ret.) Sandra Day O’Connor were the remarks by the Dean of Tsinghua Law School.
“When you amended your Constitution for the first time,” he noted, “you protected things such as speech. When China amended its Constitution for the first time, we protected property.”
Live blogging the second day of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference from the moot courtroom at Tsinghua Law School, Beijing PRC.