A must-read from Professor James Ely, “to protect all the essential elements of ownership:” Late Nineteenth Century Emergence of the Regulatory Takings Doctrine, 13 Brigham-Kanner Prop. Rts. J. ___ (forthcoming 2024).
Professor Ely, who presented this paper at the recent Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, lays out the case that the regulatory takings
The place hasn’t changed that much since 1980, has it?
As you know, the legendary Gideon Kanner left us in November. The tributes continue to be published. You’ve no doubt seen our remembrance of Professor K, as well as this one from Southern California Appellate News, this memorial from Loyola Law, our
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following.
In this Order, the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii made permanent its earlier ruling that Honolulu’s ordinance which expanded the minimum rental term to 90 days because it did not account for those owners who were already legally renting their properties
Starting in January, we’ll be helping our friend and former law partner Mark M. Murakami with the venerated and oh-so-important Land Use course (Law 580) at the University of Hawaii’s Law School.
We’re temporarily stepping into some mighty big slippers (this is Hawaii, so we don’t always wear shoes), as this is the course that
We’ve been eagerly waiting for the new season of the Institute for Justice’s podcast series, “Bound by Oath” to drop. Not only because it’s a great series – produced by John Ross, it is more like an audio documentary than a typical podcast – but also because John was kind enough to ask
Here it is — Professor Gideon Kanner’s final law journal article, published shortly before his passing:
Gideon Kanner, Eminent Domain Projects That Didn’t Work Out, 12 Brigham-Kanner Prop. Rts. J. 171 (2023).
Appropriately, we think, published in William and Mary Law School’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal, named in part in Gideon’s honor.
Aloha, Gideon
This is one of those posts I wish I didn’t have to write.
I’m sad to report that our teacher, mentor, and friend Professor Gideon Kanner passed away on Wednesday, November 22, 2023, in his 93d year.
Appellate advocacy, eminent domain, and land use legend. Holocaust survivor. Prolific author and speaker. Argued Agins
Like a lot of us, Ball State University student Keller Mellowitz didn’t care for “remote” or “Zoom” virtual classrooms which were imposed on us in varying degrees during the Co-19 thing.
But he didn’t take it lying down. Believing that remote learning wasn’t what was promised to him in return for his tuition dollars
“Good morning, Justices”
You know that from time to time — mostly thanks to our friend and colleague Shane Rayman and his firm — we cover property goings-on north of the border when a good property rights case comes before the Supreme Court of Canada (see here and here for past examples).
Well, here’s another
22nd annual Alfred B. DelBello Land Use
and Sustainable Development Conference
Come, join us (and others) on Thursday-Friday, December 7-8, 2023, at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York for the Land Use and Sustainable Development Conference (this year’s conference theme is “Balancing Economic Realities with Environmental and Social Concerns”).
We’re speaking about the
