In case you missed it live last week, here’s the recording of Cato Institute’s Book Forum on lawprof Eric Claeys’ forthcoming book, “Natural Property Rights.” As Cato notes:
The book introduces and defends a theory of property relying on labor, natural rights, and traditional principles of natural law. Justified on those grounds, property
Missed out on the 2023 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference back in February in Austin, and the legendary “Condemnation 101” track?
Well, here’s your chance to get the knowledge. On May 18, 2023, ALI-CLE is going live with a rebroadcast of that program, including real-time Q & A
Good crowd.
Here are the cases and other materials we spoke about on Friday at the 22d Annual Texas Eminent Domain Conference, in Austin. A big thank you to the Planning Chairs and to our friends at CLE International for the speaking invite.
Here at our law firm, we’re getting ready as one of our colleagues prepares to argue the Supreme Court’s next takings case in a couple of weeks. Yes, this is what we’ve alternatively called the “home equity theft” or the “keep the change” case where government seizes property to satisfy the owner’s tax debt, and
If you are in the Austin area (or anywhere in Texas for that matter), please consider joining us April 13 and 14, 2023 for the 22d Annual Texas Eminent Domain Conference.
Two days of great programming and talking shop, plus a chance to connect and re-connect with friends and colleagues. And, of course, all
If you are in Honolulu, please join us on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 4:30-5:30 p.m. at the University of Hawaii Law School for Professor Thomas Mitchell on “Heirs’ Property and the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act: Challenges, Solutions, and Historic Reform.”
Our U.H. Land Use class is attending to learn more about “heirs’ property” (described as “the biggest problem you’ve never heard of“), and so should you. Yes, Hawaii has adopted the Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act and we have followed this issue for some time, but if you didn’t know about this, now is your chance to catch up.
Here are the details from the U.H. newsletter:
Carlsmith Ball presents the 2023 Distinguished Gifford Lecturer in Real Property, Thomas W. Mitchell. Mitchell is a professor at Boston College Law School, where he holds the Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Endowed Chair and serves as the Director of the Initiative on Land, Housing & Property Rights. He is a national expert on property issues facing disadvantaged families and communities and has published leading scholarly works addressing these matters.
In 2020, Professor Mitchell was named one of 21 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of the substantial impact his professional work has had in assisting disadvantaged farmers and property owners, people who are disproportionately but not exclusively African American and other people of color. He is the only lawyer in his MacArthur Fellowship class. Please join us for this Distinguished Gifford Lecture; a light reception is to follow from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Come, join us for this compelling session.
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As we wrote up here, national zoning and planning expert Nolan Gray joined our U. Hawaii Land Use class (and the public) last week for a talk about whether zoning is an impediment to affordable housing in Hawaii.
Thank you to Grassroot Institute of Hawaii for recording the talk, as well as making Mr.
The session was recorded.
Here’s the video and audio.
Earlier this week, planner M. Nolan Gray, author of the new book, “Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It” (Island Press 2022) joined our Land Use class at the University of Hawaii Law School to talk
Here are the opinions that we spoke about this afternoon at the Land Use Institute on “The Use of Eminent Domain for Redevelopment & Economic Development Projects.”
The Registrar would not accept our suggestion
to change the course description to “Dirt Law”
This spring, starting mid-January we’ve been back in a law classroom, this time at one of our law almae matres, the University of Hawaii School of Law in Honolulu.
The course is Land Use Management and Control, and