Events | Conferences
There’s Still Room: Join Us For The 17th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (Online, Free!)
Although it is set to launch this Friday, October 2, 2020, there’s still more than enough time to register (and room at the inn) for you to join us for the 17th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School.
Like everything else this season, the Conference is online (…
This Thursday, Sept 10: “Governmental Emergency Powers and the Constitutional Implications Arising from Pandemic Orders” (Free to ABA Members)
Please join us and a panel of expert speakers including our friend and colleague Tony Della Pelle (see the flyer for the complete list), this Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 1pm Eastern Time for the ABA-produced webinar “Governmental Emergency Powers and the Constitutional Implications Arising from Pandemic Orders.”
Free to ABA members, …
Breaking: News About The 2021 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (Jan. 28-29, 2021)
News just in: we’ve just received confirmation that the Conference will not be in-person in Scottsdale in January 2021, and we’re going online.
Not a big surprise, but still a bit disappointing, and it’s a shame that the circumstances won’t allow us to meet in-person to talk shop and to renew our friendships like we…
What Books Do You Use For Your Remote Podium?
We’re done with our first day of class for the upper-level students at William and Mary. We’re teaching two courses this semester, the usual Eminent Domain and Property Rights, but also Land Use Law. We were set to begin a semester of “hybrid” instruction (some students in the classroom, with distancing in place, while others…
Register Now: William and Mary Law’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference – Oct 1, 2020 (Virtual)
Registration is up and online. Join us (online) for the 2020 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. Tuition: free, unless you want CLE credit (in which case it is a very modest $100). Because this conference has gone virtual, the usual Wren Building awards banquet to honor this year’s B-K Prize winner, lawprof Henry Smith…
July 22, 2020: “Emergency and Police Power: Property Claims in Times of Crisis” (ABA Webinar)
Please plan on joining us on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, at 1pm ET (10am PT) for a long-form program on “Emergency and Police Power: Property Claims in Times of Crisis.”
Our speakers are Professors Craig Konnoth (Colorado) and John Nolon (Pace), and one of the lawyers on the forefront of the nationwide legal…
What If Govt Is Obligated To Pay … But Doesn’t? Podcast: “Just Compensation: A Suggestion or a Requirement?”
Here’s the recording of last month’s Federalist Society’s Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group teleforum, “Just Compensation: A Suggestion or a Requirement?“
Can states unilaterally decide not to pay takings judgments? Some states think so. Louisiana and Florida have laws that say no takings…
Upcoming (Free) Program: “Lockdowns, testing and tracking: Are they all really legal?” Tuesday, June 23, 2020 (12 noon Hawaii Time)
Please join us tomorrow, Tuesday, June, 23, 2020 (12 noon Hawaii Time) for a (free!) webinar. We’ll analyze the latest on “Lockdowns, testing and tracking: Are they all really legal?”
We’ll be joining constitutional lawyer Jeff Portnoy and Dr. Keli’i Akina for the program, sponsored by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. Sign up …
Judiciary History Center Program Recording: “Constitutional Law Lessons from Hawaii’s Judicial History for the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Here’s the recording of last week’s program we did for the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, “Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from Hawaii’s Judicial History for the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Links to the cases and other materials we referred to in the presentation are posted here.
Tomorrow, we’ll be joining…




