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.
We’re live at the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing.
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
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
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:
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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
As I travel to Beijing today for the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, I’m drawn back thirty-three years to my first (and only prior) visit to the People’s Republic of China.
It was a different China in 1978. Just emerging after nearly thirty years of isolation and mostly closed off to the western world, it
Next week, power adapters and internet connectivity permitting, we’ll be blogging from the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Admin note: We’ve added “Brigham-Kanner Conference” as a separate category to catalog the posts related to the Conference. In order to read all of the
