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We’re exactly one month away from the 2016 Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation / Condemnation 101 Conference, which runs from January 28-30, 2016, in Austin, Texas. 

Together with our friends and colleagues Joe Waldo, Jack Sperber, and Andrew Brigham, we think we’re put together a pretty good program that covers a lot of

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Whatever you might celebrate at this time of year — Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or whatever (or even if you don’t celebrate anything except good cheer and gift giving) — here’s our suggestion for the gift for the takings nerd in your life: Professor Ilya Somin’s fantastic book, “The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City

Here’s the recently-published brochure with more details about the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation LItigation conference, set for Austin in January 2016. 

In the coming days and weeks, we’ll be posting more details about the conference. Our co-planning chairs Joe Waldo, Jack Sperber, and Andrew Brigham have assembled a great agenda, taught by

Mark your calendars for next Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 4:30pm at the University of Hawaii Law School Moot Courtroom for the annual Gifford Lecture in Real Property, sponsored by our colleagues at Carlsmith Ball

This year, the lecture is by Columbia Lawprof Thomas W. Merrill (also a recent Brigham-Kanner Property Rights prizewinner

Here are some upcoming events in which you may be interested, in chronological order:

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Here’s the full agenda for the 2016 Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation / Condemnation 101 Conference, January 28-30, 2016, in Austin, Texas. 

Together with our friend and colleague Joe Waldo, we think we’re put together a pretty good program that covers a lot of ground. This is the first time the conference has been

Earlier today, I moderated a panel of expert speakers on the topic of “Civil Forfeiture of Property” at the 12th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. 

Sara Sun Beale of Duke Law, Scott Bullock of the Institute for Justice, and Sandra Guerra Thompson of the University of Houston

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Greetings from the William and Mary Law School in (rainy) Williamsburg, Virginia, where we’re speaking at the 12th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference

This year’s B-K Prize winner is Harvard Law’s Joseph Singer, who we wrote is “an interesting choice, given his theory that a ‘robust regulatory structure’ goes hand-in-hand with property

Those of you who are members of the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law, tune in tomorrow, Friday, September 11, 2015 for the Land Use Committee’s monthly call.

It will feature two speakers, talking about the California Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding San Jose’s “workforce housing” requirement against a claim that it was