Events | Conferences

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Do you really need an excuse to visit Las Vegas in the interregnum between its brutally hot summers and the winter high season? Probably not.

But if so, here’s your opportunity. Plus, you can earn CLE credit.

CLE International is putting on “Eminent Domain 2016: Current and Emerging Issues for Litigators” at Caesar’s

We’re in the final stages of getting the agenda ready for the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, to be held in San Diego, California, on January 26-28, 2017. Look for the official announcement of the program soon.

In the meantime, we thought this preview of one of the topics was

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As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the final agenda for the 2016 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference has been released. Here’s the complete conference brochure, which has all the details, including registration information. 

This is the annual program, sponsored by the William and Mary Law School, in which there’s a day-long discussion of

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We’re experiencing the madness that is the ABA Annual Meeting — this time in San Francisco — hanging with colleagues from the State and Local Government Law Section (where we’re slated to be the Chair-Elect this year), and at the Council of Appellate Lawyers. These meetings are a lot of … meetings .. but there’s

Free CLE credit, and a free lunch — who can top that?

Join two experts, U. Hawaii Law School Dean Avi Soifer, and Professor John Eastman (Chapman Law, and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas), in downtown Honolulu, tomorrow, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, for “United States Supreme Court Review – October 2015 Term.”

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A very good crowd for today’s Oregon Eminent Domain Conference in Portland. 

Here are the links to the cases and other materials that we spoke about today in our session “Inverse Condemnation and Regulatory Takings – Issues and Trends.”  

Our thanks to Planning Chairs Jill Geleneau and Paul Sundermier for putting together a great

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As we head into the weekend, one more reminder about two worthwhile eventss being staged next week: 

The land use and zoning game can be pretty strange to the uninitiated. If that description includes you, here’s your chance to get initiated. The American Planning Association is sponsoring a webinar about “Rules of the Game: A Framework for Fair and Effective Zoning Hearings,” on Monday, March 7, 2016. Here’s the

At the recent ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation conference in Austin, Texas, I had the opportunity to interview Ted Balaker, Producer of the upcoming feature film about the Kelo v. New London case, Little Pink House, who took time out of his busy schedule to come to Austin and join us. 

As you probably are aware, Kelo v. City of New London has generated a ton of legal response: articles, books, cases. It has also rippled out to the broader culture with a movie and a book. At the recent ALI-CLE Eminent Domain