Yesterday, on behalf of my Owners' Counsel of America colleagues, I was pleased and honored to present to University of Hawaii School of Law Professor David L. Callies the Crystal Eagle, recognizing his lifetime of property law and property rights scholarship.
Professor Callies' present and former students (there are many), his faculty colleagues, the Hawaii property law bar, and his family and friends came to my law firm in downtown Honolulu to congratulate him with a short ceremony followed by a reception.
Associate Justice Sabrina S. McKenna of the Supreme Court of Hawaii (and a former student and law faculty colleague of Prof. Callies) introduced him. We'll post her remarks -- which included haiku! -- and more photos and videos of the event, and a transcript of everyone's words, shortly.
The Honolulu event was the "local" version of the formal presentation of the Crystal Eagle in San Francisco at the Owners' Counsel Annual Meeting (pictured below) in February. A presentation so good, we had to do it twice.
L to R: Cathy Newman, Executive Director, Owners' Counsel; Andrew Prince Brigham, Florida OCA member; Mark M. Murakami (my Damon Key partner); Laurie Callies and Professor Callies; some guy who snuck in the photo (inversecondemnation.com); Professor Gideon Kanner (past Crystal Eagle winner); Dwight Merriam (Connecticut OCA member); Michael Berger (Supreme Court advocate and past Crystal Eagle winner).
Presentation of the Owners' Counsel of America Crystal Eagle to David L. Callies
