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ALI-CLE has posted the registration page for the 2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Conference, in Austin. Register now for a $200 discount off the tuition. Or you can sign up for notification when the full brochure is published. 

Save the spot on your calendar so you can join us in Austin. 

We’re still

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The Land Use Institute, a program that for many years has been planned by co-chairs Frank Schnidman and Gideon Kanner, has found a new home with the American Bar Association’s Section of State and Local Government Law as the main sponsor. It also has a new Planning co-chair, Dean Patty Salkin of Touro Law

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The hotel reservations link for the 2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation and Condemnation 101 Conference is now live.

Reserve your hotel room now, via this link to ensure that you have a spot in the conference hotel. [note: link updated 7/8/2015]

We’re still working on the agenda and faculty, but here are the

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On Wednesday, July 1, 2015, the American Planning Association is putting on the 2015 Planning Law Review, a program highlighting the most important and topical cases decided by the courts recently. Here’s the program description:

Planning feels the impact of decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court, federal district courts, and state courts. How will

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            “It’s Frank’s world, we just live in it.”

                      – attributed to Dean Martin, about Frank Sinatra

A narrowly drawn opinion from the Supreme Court in Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 14-275, argued in April and to

Hardly seems like a decade ago that the Supreme Court gave us eminent domain lawyers something to talk about at cocktail parties: the Court’s infamous and widely-hated decision in Kelo v. City of New London

Find out about what the intervening ten years has brought us from the Cato Institute, which is sponsoring a

For those of you who are members of the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law’s Land Use Committee (if you aren’t, you can become a member easily; just ask me how), please tune in on June 12, 2015 for our monthly teleconference.

Here’s the announcement:

Our third meeting is scheduled for Friday, June

If you have plans to be in Wisconsin or environs in June, the Wisconsin chapter of the Appraisal Institute is putting on its 12th annual Condemnation Appraisal Symposium at the Marquette Law School on Wednesday, June 3, 2015.

One of the featured speakers is Mike Berger on “Current National Eminent Domain Issues,” and there will

A couple of noteworthy conferences upcoming, one in-person, the other a “webinar” format:

  • The first is “Kelo: A Decade Later” at the U. Connecticut Law School, Friday, March 20, 2015, from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. The conference promises to “look back at the decision and its repercussions,” and includes the lawyers for

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Yesterday, on behalf of my Owners’ Counsel of America colleagues, I was pleased and honored to present to University of Hawaii School of Law Professor David L. Callies the Crystal Eagle, recognizing his lifetime of property law and property rights scholarship. 

Professor Callies’ present and former students (there are many), his faculty colleagues, the Hawaii