The last couple of days, we’ve returned to Williamsburg, Virginia to attend the annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School.
The Conference is the annual gathering of legal scholars and practitioners who focus on property law and property rights to celebrate the award the B-K Prize to “an individual whose
William & Mary Law School, host of the annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, has announced that Columbia Law School Professor Thomas W. Merrill will receive the 2013 B-K Prize at the conference (October 17-18, 2013, Williamsburg, Virginia). The photo above is of the plaque on the wall at the William & Mary Law School
Update: we removed the embedded video that was posted above, since CBS kept replacing it with other clips. Here’s a direct link to the video.
As our readers know, we follow with keen interest events in the People’s Republic of China (does anyone call it that, anymore?), especially those issues related to property and
A quick one from colleague Christopher Dillon. In How to buy in China, Christopher provides a primer on how to buy a home in the People’s Republic. Tip: it isn’t cheap. He reminds us:
In China all urban land is owned by the state, while rural land is owned by collectives. Private ownership
Here’s a slideshow and summary of the recent Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, held at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Here are my remarks from last week’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. Our panel spoke on “Property Rights in Times of Economic Crisis,” and included lawprofs James W. Ely (Vanderbilt), William Fischel, (Dartmouth), and Eric Kades (William & Mary). See the complete faculty list and agenda
There’s still time to join us later this week at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia for the 2012 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, and the award of the B-K Prize to University of Michigan lawprof James Krier for his lifetime contributions to property law scholarship.
The Conference includes a day-long series of
Here’s a follow up to our earlier brief post about the opinion in Lavan v. City of Los Angeles, No.11-56253 (Sep. 5, 2012), in which a 2-1 Ninth Circuit panel held that the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments protect the homeless against the City of L.A.’s seizure and destruction of their “momentarily unattended” property. The
Here is what future lawyers are learning at the flagship U.S. law school: The Evidence Exam at Harvard Law That Requires No Evidence to Pass (via Above the Law).
Here is what future lawyers are learning at one of the premiere Chinese law schools:
