Yesterday (yes, April Fool’s Day), we returned to William and Mary Law School to help the student-run Real Estate Law Society wrap up its event year, the tenth such event RELS has produced this year (hence the “RELS X” on the flyer).
The putative title of our talk was “Hot Topics in Property Law“, but we covered a wider range, including Dirt Law issues to be on the lookout for at the Supreme Court, a century of zoning, why the definition of “property” isn’t as straightforward as you might think, a plug for our two fall semester courses, career paths in property law (litigation, transactional, academic, for example, and what the hiring market looks like), and some general musings.
We post this for those of you at other law schools who may want to consider forming a student organization for those interested in property and real estate law. Created within the past couple of years here at William and Mary Law, RELS is going gangbusters by sponsoring speakers, holding social events where we can talk shop about Dirt Law, producing events for the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (such as the Kelo re-moot last fall), and producing high-quality swag such as the sippy cup depicted above.
We highly recommend creating a RELS in your law school neighborhood.
The dress code for our talk was decidedly less formal than as promised in the flyer. Photo courtesy of David Morrill, the Law School’s Director of Media Relations.
Did we say social events? The evening before the talk, RELS student leaders meet with their faculty advisors (yours truly and Professor Thomas McSweeney) on a near-perfect early spring night in Williamsburg where we debated the latest in Dirt Law but also answered the critical question of “what is your favorite sandwich?”
Third Year law student Katherine Pappas is the founding President of W&M RELS (many of you may have met her in Savannah at ALI earlier this year). Photo courtesy of David Morrill.
Did we mention the quality W&M RELS swag?
Organizing a RELS at your law school as a student-run organization is highly recommended. Ask us how.