The Moot Court room
Shen Weixing, Dean and Law Professor
Professor Wang Liming
Mark (Thor) Hearne
The audience
Professor Michelman
Professors Epstein, Jiang, and Michelman
Professor Ely
Professors Michelman and Salkin
Professor Jiang
Dean Shen, Joe Waldo
Professor Jie
Alan Ackerman
Group photo from the audience point of view.
We’ll post the group photo later.
We’re live at the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing.
Last week, after the welcome reception at the U.S. Embassy celebrating the Brigham-Kanner Conference’s visit to Beijing and the awarding of the B-K prize to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, I had a chance to meet up with an old law school classmate and friend, Laurence Brahm.
Since our graduation nearly a quarter-century ago, Laurence
The actual conference does not begin until tomorrow (see schedule here), but today is the warmup. Starting with a tour of the Forbidden City, the U.S.’s leading property law scholars and practitioners joined about 50,000 other people (it seemed), and took the obligatory look-see.
These days, it hardly seems “forbidden.” To anyone. It
At a conference and awarding of a prize named in part in his honor, we lead off with the thoughts on Professor Gideon Kanner from his Gideon’s Trumpet blog on how the People’s Republic of China is dealing (or not) with the whole “property rights” thing:
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Barista’s note: for those of you who follow us on Twitter and Facebook, we haven’t been able to access either of those services while in the PRC. Call us paranoid, but each time we go to our usual bookmark, we get a 404 error. Every other website loads just fine. So you will
Here is the Petitioner’s Reply Brief in Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, No. 11-189 (cert. petition filed Aug. 11, 2011). We posted the cert petition and the amici and BIO here.
The cert petition is asking the Supreme Court to revist and discard the ripeness rules of Williamson County Regional
As I travel to Beijing today for the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, I’m drawn back thirty-three years to my first (and only prior) visit to the People’s Republic of China.
It was a different China in 1978. Just emerging after nearly thirty years of isolation and mostly closed off to the western world, it
“There is strong consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is occurring and that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities contribute to climate change.”
So begins Climate Change and Regulatory Takings in Coastal Hawaii, a monograph by Douglas Codiga, Dennis Hwang, and Chris Delaunay, published by the University of Hawaii Sea Grant
We’ve just finalized the agenda and faculty for the Hawaii Water Law conference, to be held in Honolulu on January 11, 2012. I am the planning co-chair along with Jesse Souki, Director of the State of Hawaii Office of Planning.
In addition to Jesse and me, we’ve assembled a diverse and talented faculty:
