Brigham-Kanner Conference

William and Mary Law School’s Property Rights Project has announced that Professor James E. Penner (Kwa Geok Choo Professor of Property Law at the National University of Singapore) will be awarded the 2026 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize.

This is in keeping with the international theme in the 2026 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, which will

This past week we were busy with the 22d Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School.

Here’s the text of the remarks which I prepared for the session on “Public Safety, Private Property, and Just Compensation.” Note: because of time, I truncated what I planned on saying and kept

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As you already know, registration is also underway for the 22d Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 23-24, 2025, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.

The Conference is expressly designed to get legal academics and the nation’s best dirt law practitioners in the same room, discussing how legal scholarship and law

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That’s right, it’s time to plan on joining us at the 22d edition of the best one-day property law conference, William and Mary Law School‘s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference.

As we noted, Professor William Fischel will be awarded the 2025 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize at the annual Wren Building candlelight ceremony in Williamsburg

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Here’s news we’ve been waiting for.

The William and Mary Law School announced that Professor William Fischel will be awarded the 2025 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize at the annual conference in Williamsburg in October 2025. 

The Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize is presented annually to a scholar, practitioner, or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance

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Screenshot 2024-12-23 at 08-18-04 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal Volume 13 by William & Mary Law School

The latest edition of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal (William & Mary Law School) is out, with intriguing Dirt Law scholarship from the luminaries in the field.

Check out the Table of Contents above, and then go here to download each piece or the entire issue. We will note, with a small bit of pride

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How it started.

Once again, our fall duties included teaching two property law courses at the William and Mary Law School: Eminent Domain & Property Rights, and Land Use Controls. We started in mid-August, and just wrapped the classroom portion of the courses earlier this week. I say “classroom portions” because although we are done

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Here’s the full report from David Morrill about the 21st Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference earlier this month. Pictured above: Professor James Stern (responsible for the overall planning of the B-K Conference), this year’s Prizewinner Professor Lee Fennell (U. Chicago Law School), and Andrew Brigham, St. Augustine, Florida – property rights lawyer extraordinaire).

Here are what

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The 21st Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference is underway at the William and Mary Law School. We have a series of student-oriented programs (co-sponsored by the Office of Careers Service),

Tomorrow, lawprof Lee Anne Fennell of the University of Chicago Law School will be presented the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize for her work on “how

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Yes, the mysterious ducks remain — and seem to have multiplied.

It’s that time of the year again. Fall’s-a-coming, and that means that starting today, we’re back at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia to lead two courses:

  • Eminent Domain and Property Rights (W&M is one of the few law schools