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We’re almost there, but we still have room remaining. At the 2018 Conference in Charleston, we both sold out the registrations and the conference hotel, so we planned ahead for the upcoming 2019 Conference in Palm Springs at the Renaissance Palm Springs Resort

Register here. You will also be able to download

Pitt lawprof Gerald S. Dickinson has written an interesting op-ed in the Washington Post, “The biggest problem for Trump’s border wall isn’t money. It’s getting the land.” The sublede poses an interesting thought: “Eminent domain fights could take years.”

Which raises the question, could it

Yes, it might, as Professor

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A very good and active crowd for today’s Eminent Domain Conference (CLE International) in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was good to visit with some old friends, and also to get to meet some new colleagues.

Our talk focused on national trends, and this year’s most interesting condemnation and takings cases. Here’s the links to the cases

Earlier this week, we spoke to Howard Mansfield, author of the recently-published book “The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down – Our Belief in Property and the Cost of That Belief.”

His book is about property, property rights, and how these ideas are processed by the American psyche. But instead of

Following the announcement that GM will be closing its Detroit-area Hamtramck assembly plant (originally a Cadillac plant), comes the reminder that it wasn’t supposed to be that way. This was the area, after all, condemned for “economic development” in the infamous Poletown case

But as the Detroit Free Press reported in “GM’s Hamtramck

Get ready. In this and upcoming posts, we’re going to be featuring the items on our agenda for the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 24-26, 2019, in sunny Palm Springs, California. 

ALI-CLE has released the brochure, which those of you on the mailing list should have received —

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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

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A very important public use case from the Louisiana Court of Appeals.

In Ryan v. Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, No. 17-00016 (Sep. 27, 2018), the court upheld a preliminary injunction issued by the trial court “barring the [Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal] District from expropriating a tract of [the Meyers’] property in Westlake Louisiana.”

Our colleague and co-planning chair Joe Waldo was in town yesterday, so we walked through historic Williamsburg, Virginia (cradle of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), to invite you to join us for the 36th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (January 24-26, 2019, in Palm Springs, California).

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Come join us for one of the best conferences on property rights and property law at the 2018 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 4-5, 2018 at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Register here

We’ve attended and presented at the Conference in past years, including when it went international in