Today’s the kickoff events for William and Mary Law School’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. We started the day with eminent domain and property law attorneys speaking about the practice of law (pictured above, Justin Hodge (TX) and Christian Torgrimson (GA)).
Toronto’s Shane Rayman and I spoke about international and comparative property and eminent domain (expropriation) and how even though our way of approaching cases may be different, the goals are the same: justice and fair treatment for our clients. And what we can learn about our own cases by looking at how other jurisdictions do it.
In that vein, here are the links to the cases we (and others) mentioned:
- Antrim Truck Centre v. Her Majesty (Canada) (business losses due to highway realignment)
- City of Manila v. Roces Prieto (Philippines) (public use in eminent domain)
- Houston flooding cases (USA)
- Hemlick Family Farms v. Virginia Comm’r of Highways (Virginia SCT) (probability of rezoning in eminent domain)
There will be more during tomorrow’s scholar/practitioner sessions.