At a conference and awarding of a prize named in part in his honor, we lead off with the thoughts on Professor Gideon Kanner from his Gideon's Trumpet blog on how the People's Republic of China is dealing (or not) with the whole "property rights" thing:
Now, it would not be a Gideon Kanner commentary without some provocative thoughts:
And so it goes. Still, be all that as it may, we experience a feeling of revulsion whenever we come across this sort of thing, where American law that is said to be of the people’s government that is the embodiment of due process, fairness and equity, turns out in some ways to be not all that much different than the law of a barbaric government like China’s autocracy.Only in eminent domain law!
Or this one:
But all is not lost in Academe. The good news is that next week, the William & Mary College School of Law, together with Tsignhua University, will co-sponsor a symposium on property rights, to be held in Beijing. It remains to be seen what participants in that Beijing conference will have to say about the violence over private property rights, that is going on in China even as we write.More to come as the conference progresses.