Events | Conferences

Mark your calendars for next Friday, January 25, 2013 from noon to 1:00 p.m. Pacific for “Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States: Practical Implications Of The Supreme Court’s Decision,” presented by Law Seminars International.

It’s a discussion of Arkansas Game, the decision in which the Supreme Court held that the

Join us on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern (12:30 CT, 11:30 a.m. MT, 10:30 a.m. PT, 7:30 a.m. HT) for “Thinking Out Loud – Property Rights After Natural Disasters,” a free teleconference presented by the Condemnation Zoning and Land Use Committee of the ABA’s Litigation Section. There’s no cost to

LgoIt’s time for the annual ALI-CLE (fka ALI-ABA) eminent domain conferences, to be held January 24-26, 2013 in Miami Beach, Florida.

In the “advanced” course, Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation, we’ll be covering topics such as “Condemning Underwater Mortgages,” “An Engineer’s Role in Damage,” “How To Develop and Implement a Business Plan for

13.LULHIIt’s back! Time once again for the bi-annual Hawaii Land Use Law Conference, to be held January 17 and 18, 2013 (Thursday and Friday) at the Downtown YWCA (a very convenient venue).

Planning co-chairs Professor David Callies and Ben Kudo have once again assembled a stellar faculty and put together an agenda that covers

Here are my remarks from last week’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. Our panel spoke on “Property Rights in Times of Economic Crisis,” and included lawprofs James W. Ely (Vanderbilt), William Fischel, (Dartmouth), and Eric Kades (William & Mary). See the complete faculty list and agenda

There’s still time to join us later this week at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia for the 2012 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, and the award of the B-K Prize to University of Michigan lawprof James Krier for his lifetime contributions to property law scholarship.

The Conference includes a day-long series of

In or near Sacramento this week? You may want to attend this free program, sponsored by the American Action Forum:

The American Action Forum will host a panel discussion at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento on the devastating downturn of the housing market and painful recovery currently facing our nation. There’s no question California’s housing

For those of you sticking around Chicago after the ABA Annual Meeting, there’s the opportunity for even more land use, zoning, takings, and condemnation programming. ALI-CLE (fka ALI-ABA) is putting on it’s annual Land Use Institute later this week. It looks like Planning Co-Chairs Gideon Kanner and Frank Schnidman have put together a wide-ranging

This past week was the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. These things can often be endurance contests where you’re rushing from one meeting to another (is this the Executive Committee meeting or the Council meeting?), and it’s often hard to tell the players without a scorecard.

Sprinkled among these unexciting-but-productive sessions are the real meat