Save the date: on Thursday, December 1, 2011 (1:00pm-2:30pm EST, 10:00am-11:30am PST) we’ll be presenting the on-line seminar “Eminent Domain: Redevelopment Challenges for Local Governnment – Navigating Federal Funding Requirements, Challenges for Public Utilities in Right-of-Way Projects, and Objections to Taking for Public Use.“
Joining me are colleagues Anthony Della Pelle (McKirdy
One conference down, one to go.
We’re on the way back from the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing, and on our way to the California State Bar Environmental Law Section’s annual conference at Yosemite N.P., which begins later this week. More information about the conference here.
Along with U.C. Berkeley law professor Joseph
Well, we were beset by a series of technical difficulties yesterday (the internet connection suddenly spit us out, we were unable to log back on, our laptop just shut off, followed by mysterious battery problems), so we were not able to continue the live blog.(Was it something we said?)
That’s ok, since by then it
In the hallway of the main building of the Tsinghua Law School is an electronic billboard with notices of upcoming events and classes.
This is what they are studying at Chinese law schools.
Any questions?
Most interesting comments at tonight’s event awarding the Brigham-Kanner prize to Justice (Ret.) Sandra Day O’Connor were the remarks by the Dean of Tsinghua Law School.
“When you amended your Constitution for the first time,” he noted, “you protected things such as speech. When China amended its Constitution for the first time, we protected property.”
The actual conference does not begin until tomorrow (see schedule here), but today is the warmup. Starting with a tour of the Forbidden City, the U.S.’s leading property law scholars and practitioners joined about 50,000 other people (it seemed), and took the obligatory look-see.
These days, it hardly seems “forbidden.” To anyone. It
We’ve just finalized the agenda and faculty for the Hawaii Water Law conference, to be held in Honolulu on January 11, 2012. I am the planning co-chair along with Jesse Souki, Director of the State of Hawaii Office of Planning.
In addition to Jesse and me, we’ve assembled a diverse and talented faculty:
Next week, power adapters and internet connectivity permitting, we’ll be blogging from the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Admin note: We’ve added “Brigham-Kanner Conference” as a separate category to catalog the posts related to the Conference. In order to read all of the
Mark your calendars: as part of the Fall Meeting of the ABA’s Section of State & Local Government Law in Tucson, on Thursday, September 22, I’ll be on a panel discussing the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan, “Ethical Considerations for Municipal Attorneys: Caught in the Crosshairs Reconciling the
Mark your calendars for October 20 – 23, 2011. That’s when the State Bar of California will present its 20th Anniversary Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® (yes, it is trademarked), at the Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp, California.
Along with U.C. Berkeley law professor Joseph Sax and Deputy California Attorney General Daniel L. Siegel