Events | Conferences

Still not have your MCLE hours for 2010? Will you be in or near Plano, Texas on December 2 and 3, 2010? Want to attend a conference at which the top minds in planning, zoning and eminent domain law are speaking?

Well, you’re in luck. There’s still time to register for Planning, Zoning and Eminent

Here are the slides that I used and links to the cases I discussed in “The Whacky and Wonderful World of Eminent Domain After Kelo.”

My presentation was entitled “Schlimmbesserung – Eminent Domain for Redevelopment.” Schlimmbesserung is one of those wonderful German compound words that have no direct translation into English, and means “worsening

On Friday, November 19, 2010, I’ll be on the faculty of “Integrating Water Law and Land Use Planning” in Honolulu. My session will cover “Water Rights, Property Rights and the Law of Settled Expectations.”

Other sessions include “Hawaiian Water Rights – Where Culture and the Law Merge,” “Amendments to the Instream Flow Standards

Banner_300x68 Mark your calendars: as a follow up to the panel discussion of Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, 130 S. Ct. 2592 (2010) at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco in August, the ABA Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law is sponsoring (along with the Section

11.LULHI Mark your calendars for January 13 and 14, 2011 for the 5th Hawaii Land Use Law Conference, to be held in Honolulu. Yes, it’s a few months away, but this is the Big One, it only comes around every two years, and you don’t want to miss it. 

The program chairs are Professor David Callies

On Thursday, October 21, 2010, from noon to 1:00 p.m. EDT, please tune in for the free web conference “The Whacky and Wonderful World of Eminent Domain After Kelo.”

I’m not sure I can live up to making eminent domain “whacky and wonderful,” but I will be speaking about what the Court in Kelo

Check it out: the William and Mary Property Rights Project and the Institute of the Bill of Rights Law will present the 7th Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference on September 30 to October 1, 2010. The recipient of this year’s prize is lawprof Carol M. Rose (U. Arizona).

More information, including a link to registration information here, from the Owners’ Counsel of America blog.
Continue Reading Upcoming Conference: 7th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (9/30)

You may have missed the live program, but it’s still not too late to get the podcast of a recent discussion of Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 (June 17, 2010), the Supreme Court case about judicial takings and beachfront property. Here’s the course description from ALI-ABA:

Mark you calendars: from August 25-28, 2010 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, ALI-ABA is putting on the annual program, Land Use Institute: Planning, Regulation, Litigation, Eminent Domain, and Compensation.

We won’t be able to attend this year, but we have in the past, and the program and the faculty is first-rate. Go here for

Mark you calendars: from August 25-28, 2010 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, ALI-ABA is putting on the annual program, Land Use Institute: Planning, Regulation, Litigation, Eminent Domain, and Compensation.

We won’t be able to attend this year, but we have in the past, and the program and the faculty is first-rate. Go here for