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
Brigham-Kanner Conference: This Is What They Are Studying In Chinese Law Schools
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?
Brigham-Kanner Conference: In China, Property Rights Are In The First Amendment
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.”
Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference – Live Blog Second Day
Live blogging the second day of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference from the moot courtroom at Tsinghua Law School, Beijing PRC.
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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.
Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference – Live Blog
We’re live at the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing.
Brigham-Kanner Conference: An Evening With An Old Friend
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
Brigham-Kanner Conference Warmup
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
Brigham-Kanner Conference: Professor Kanner’s (First) Thoughts
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:
Brigham-Kanner Conference: Why Property Rights Matter
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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