Later this week, I’ll be attending the annual scrum of lawyers known as the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, being held this year in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I’ll be attending the gatherings of the State & Local Government Law Section and the Litigation Section (Condemnation, Zoning & Land Use Committee), and the meeting of the Council of Appellate Lawyers.
I’m the CLE Director for the State & Local Government Law Section, and I’m pretty excited about our two featured programs. The first is Protecting Heirs Property: Uniform Laws and Social Justice, a presentation about the new uniform act dealing with the problem of fractional ownership by extended families of land, mostly in the rural south. The program will be moderated by George Mason U lawprof (and regulatory takings guru) Steven Eagle, and includes four expert speakers on the subject. Professor Eagle always asks provocative questions and really makes you think about things, so this looks to be a very good program.
The second is not about land use, but will still be compelling. My SLG colleague Jim Hanks is moderating a panel on The Bully at School Goes High Tech: Protecting Students in the Internet Age. The panel will discuss responses to high-tech bullying, and the constitutional issues involved. Jim presented on this issue at the SLG’s spring meeting in Portland a couple of months ago, and I was blown away by the amount of information he was able to transmit and the depth of his knowledge. It’s a rare legal seminar that was this good, and I’m sure the expanded version will be just as good.
If you’re coming to Toronto, please be sure to join us, either in the CLE programs, at the business meetings, or at one of the many receptions and social events.