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
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
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
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
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
Here are the links and other materials which we spoke about in this afternoon’s program 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.”
Next Wednesday, June 17, 2020, at 5:30pm Hawaii Time, we’ll be speaking for the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center about “Constitutional Law and States of Emergency: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
This is a one-hour program, open to the public, where we will take a dive into Hawaii’s emergency preparedness and
Join us starting tomorrow, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 for the 34th Land Use Institute. Originally scheduled for April in Tampa, we obviously couldn’t do tha, so we did the next best thing — moved this venerable course online. The Planning Chairs (Frank Schnidman and Dean Patricia Salkin) have assembled the usual hot topics session
Please mark your calendars for Friday, May 15, 2020 at 2:30pm Eastern Time, for the teleforum sponsored by the Federalist Society’s Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group, “COVID-19 & Property Rights: Do Government Actions in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Create Compensable Takings?”
The issue: how should courts evaluate the claims for
Two more complaints challenging covid shutdown orders as takings (inter alia). Add to the growing list. See here, here, here and here, for other similar complaints.
The first is from California. It asserts that ordering “nonessential” businesses to shut down is a taking. The complaint alleges that unless the