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Is there a more appropriate place at which to study property rights and dirt law than William and Mary Law School? After all, it is a stone’s throw from Jamestown, the place where there’s a good argument the concept of property law and property rights first took hold in the New World. As

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By now, you know that the 19th Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference is set for September 29-30, 2022, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia (register here – space is limited – fee ranges from free to $195 – a bargain!). And you know that our colleague Jim Burling is this

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In honor of property rights advocate and trial lawyer Toby Prince Brigham (1934-2021), Owners’ Counsel of America has endowed a scholarship for a second- or third- year law student to attend the annual three-day ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference (the upcoming Conference will be in Austin, Texas, February 2-4, 2023.

In honor

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In case you have not already obtained your printed copy (you really should subscribe), it is now available in pdf format.

The theme for the issue is “Where Theory Meets Practice,” and with articles on “Property Beyond Flatland,” “Property Rights and the Modern Resurgence of Rent Control,” “Hurdles to Just Compensation,” “Implied Preemption in

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It’s back! After a hiatus on the in-person program, the bi-annual Hawaii Land Use Conference is back in-person (see here for a sample of one of our prior presentations at this conference).

May 25 and 26, 2022, downtown Honolulu.

The full agenda and speaker list has not yet been published, but here’s a summary

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Here are the links to the cases and other materials that we talked about last Friday at the Georgia Bar Association’s annual Eminent Domain Conference. Our talk was entitled “It’s the Chief Justice’s Property World, We Just Live In It: National Trends in Takings, Property, & Eminent Domain,” and was part of

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When we met for the 39th ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference in-person in Scottsdale a couple of months ago, we hinted that you’d like the venue for the 2023 Conference. We say “hinted” because without an executed contract with the venue, we could not officially announce it.

But the good folks

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After a two-year absence in which we went remote, in the last week of last month (our usual spot on the calendar, between the playoffs and Super Bowl), we once again met in-person for the American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference.

Approximately 200 lawyers, judges, legal scholars, appraisers, law students

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As usual, Michael Berger and Jim Burling kept the room filled on a Saturday morning, and informed and entertained.

After their presentations, and the National Forum at which practitioners from around the country briefed us all about the issues in their respective jurisdictions, we wrapped up the 39th ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation