Events | Conferences

A reminder: the 11th annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference is coming up on October 30-31, 2014, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. As we noted earlier, Michael Berger will receive the Brigham-Kanner Prize, so this one is special – he’s the first practitioner to receive the Prize.

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To those of you who joined us at the ABA’s Land Use, Planning, and Development Forum, thank you. Here are links to some of the topics I mentioned: 

There’s still time to register and attend the upcoming seminar,”Hawaii’s Shoreline and Coastal Law and Regulation.” It’s scheduled for Friday, July 18, 2014, in downtown Honolulu at the YWCA. Here’s the description:

This program will cover recent Hawaii case law, including the recent Hawaii Supreme Court decision regarding identifying the certified shoreline. Now

There’s still time to register for one or more upcoming CLE programs sponsored by the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law:

Like a visiting relative who won’t go home, the idea to seize underwater-but-performing mortgages is still hanging on. The llatest chapter is brought to us by way of our New York colleague Mike Rikon, who writes:

At a press conference on the steps of City Hall, City Council members and housing advocacy groups called

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ALI-CLE, the good folks who put on the annual programs on Eminent Domain and Land Valuation, and Condemnation 101: How to Prepare and Present an Eminent Domain Case, have announced the dates and venue for the 2015 conferences:

Thursday – Saturday, February 5-7, 2015 

Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco.

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Earlier this year, we co-chaired the Hawaii Agriculture Conference, and one of the hottest items on the agenda was the “GMO” issue, now brewing in at least two Hawaii courts (the Kauai ordinance was challenged in federal court, while the Big Island ordinance was challenged in the Third Circuit). 

We’re

We’re straying outside the usual subjects of this blog (but not that far, since we also do a lot of work related to municipal governments and constitutional law). 

Our “home” in the American Bar Association is the Section of State & Local Government Law (we’re Chair of the Section’s Eminent Domain Law group), has put

Mark your calendars for next week Thursday, May 22, 2014. ALI-CLE, the good folks who put on our annual Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation and Eminent Domain 101 conferences, are sponsoring the above-titled teleconference/webinar. Here’s the program description:

The City of Richmond, California rattled the universe of real estate lenders, trustees, owners, bankers

Back in October, we had the honor of moderating a discussion about the ripeness issue in takings law at the 40th Anniversary Symposium on The Takings Issue at Touro Law School (see here and here for more). Professor Vicki Been and Pacific Legal Foundation’s J. David Breemer were the panelists, each weighing in on how