Spots are filling up, so if you are even thinking about it, here’s the complete agenda for the 2026 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 14-16, 2026, in London.
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Join Us Tomorrow For “Euclid at 100: The Past, Present, and Future of Zoning in America” (Free)
Tomorrow, Friday, August 28, 2026, at 12 noon Eastern Time, the Federalist Society will be producing a one-hour web-based program, “Euclid at 100: The Past, Present, and Future of Zoning in America.”
Along with land use expert Professor Michael Wolf, we shall be speaking about the most (in?)famous zoning case, now coming
2026 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Agenda (Oct. 14-16, 2026, London)
Here’s the complete agenda for the 2026 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 14-16, 2026, in London. The Conference has gone international twice before (Beijing (2011) and The Hague (2016)). At the Conference, the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights prize will be presented to Professor James Penner, “whose scholarship has reshaped contemporary understandings of the nature and structure of property.” We’ll be speaking on “Property, Human Rights, and International Law” which will “consider how property rights are recognized, limited, and contested in international contexts.”
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Why Is Rent So High? We Figured Out Why Today
Thanks to Cameron Westbrook, President of the student chapter of the Denver Law Federalist Society for sponsoring a program today at the law school which put us together with Colorado Rep. Javier Mabrey in a “debate” on housing law and policy.
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Texas A & M Journal of Property Law Symposium Report: “Day Zero: How Cities Run Out of Water”
Today’s post is by our friend and Pacific Legal Foundation colleague Steve Davis, reporting on his recent attendance at the recent Texas A & M Journal of Property Law symposium, “Property Law and ‘Aggie Spirit.'”
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Join Us At The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (Denver) To Talk Sheetz, And Housing
Next week, we’ll be at the Denver Law School for the 2026 Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute’s “Western Places | Western Spaces” annual conference. Earlier in our career, we were a fairly regular attendee, but for mesne reasons (unrelated to the conference) our ability to attend kind of fell off. Recognizing that shortcoming, we attended the 2025 Conference last year. This convinced us that indeed, we were missing out. In short, the RMULI has returned as a featured event on our calendar.
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Register Now For State Eminent Domain Conferences (California, Texas, Virginia)
Here are a three upcoming state-based eminent domain conferences, brought to you by CLE International: California, Texas, and Virginia.
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2026 Future of Property Law Conference, University of Hawaii Law School
We’re spending the day at the alma mater, talking alongside some of the luminaries in the field (lawprofs Thomas Mitchell, Henry Smith, John Inafranca, Thomas Merrill, and Pamela Sameulson, among others) about our favorite topics: dirt law and property rights. This is the “Future of Property Rights” Conference that we mentioned not long ago at the University of Hawaii Law School.
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2026 Future of Property Law Conference, University of Hawaii Law School, Feb 13, 2026 (Live & Webcast)
If you are still looking for a reason to head to the 808 next month, here it is. The 2026 Future of Property Law Conference, February 13, 2026 at the University of Hawaii School of Law.
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We’re Underway At The 43d American Law Institute Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Conference, Savannah
The view from the podium
That’s right. More than 300 of the nation’s best eminent domain lawyers, judges, appraisers, right-of-way agents, scholars, and other industry professionals are in Savannah for the next two and a half days for what is now known as the American Law Institute (“ALI” alone, no longer with the “-CLE” addition)