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
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
Takings mavens know lawprof Ilya Somin. Among other things, he’s authored some of the more interesting and useful scholarship in our field.
Here’s his latest, published in the 2019 Cato Supreme Court Review, about the Supreme Court’s latest takings case, Knick v. Township of Scott.
We naturally recommend you read the entirety
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Get ready, and hold your place now: here’s the list of programs and speakers for the 36th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, to be held at the Downtown Nashville Hilton, January 23,- 25, 2020. Two-and-a-half days with top-notch national
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One of the great things about teaching at the William and Mary Law School (and there are many) is that it houses the original law book collection of George Wythe, “the first American law professor.” He is the O.G. Lawprof, both at W&M, and in the United States
Here’s the Brief in Opposition in a case (and issue) we’ve been tracking for a while (including filing several amicus briefs along the way, including this one). The BIO is the pipeline’s response to the cert petition on the question of whether
Brief in Opposition to Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Givens v. Mountain
The final agenda and faculty list will soon be officially published, but we wanted to give you a preview of what is in store at the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 23-25, 2020, at the Nashville Hilton (downtown, just a few steps away from everything that Nashville has to offer).
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Here’s what we are reading this Tuesday:
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
Here’s our Federalist Society blog post on Knick, “After More Than 30 Years, the Supreme Court Reopens the Door To Federal Takings Claims.”
Check it out, takings fans.