Here is a transcript of the remarks I delivered today at the 2019 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. I was honored to join lawprof Henry Smith and Florida Supreme Court Justice (ret.) Ken Bell (who authored the Florida court’s opinion in Stop the Beach Renourishment which was challenged in SCOTUS as a “judicial taking”) to speak
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
With the 2019 edition of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (and award of the B-K Prize to Professor Steven Eagle) to get underway later this week, it is also publication time for the latest issue of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal.
This edition focuses on the “Federalism Dimension of Constitutional Property,” and we contributed
Chief Justice Marshall (L) and Professor Wythe (R) request the pleasure of your company at the 16th Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William & Mary Law School, in Williamsburg, Virginia, Thursday and Friday, October 3-4, 2019. Register here, and make your plans to join us.
The Conference’s main event is the awarding of
We’re about to get underway with the fall semester at William and Mary Law School, where we’re again teaching an upper-division course, Eminent Domain and Property Rights.
We’ve more than doubled the size of last year’s enrollment, so it looks like the word is getting out. We cover not only eminent domain and
If you are in the Williamsburg, Virginia area next week Wednesday, March 13, 2019, please hold the lunch hour (12:50-1:50pm, Room L127) on your calendar to come join us for a session with Howard Mansfield, author of the recently-published book “The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down – Our Belief in Property and
Be sure to save the date on your calendar for the 16th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.
This year’s B-K Prize will be awarded to Professor Steven J. Eagle. Professor Eagle is a familiar presence to the property bar and the academy, and this award
With the first snow of the season beginning to fall in Williamsburg, today was the final day of classes at the William and Mary Law School. Which means that my time serving as the inaugural Joseph T. Waldo Visiting Chair in Property Rights Law is beginning to wrap up. There’s still the reading period, exams
Every year, at the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, the conference publishes a law journal with the articles, essays, and remarks presented at last year’s conference. So it was this year, and Volume 7, with the theme of “The Future of Regulatory Takings,” is now available.
We contributed an essay, “Back to the
Last week, the 15th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference saw the gathering of legal scholars, judges, lawyers, and law students at the William and Mary Law School to award the B-K Property Rights Prize to Cardozo lawprof Stewart Sterk, followed by a day-long conference focusing on Professor Sterk’s work and the latest developments in property