Brigham-Kanner Conference

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The Moot Court room

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Shen Weixing, Dean and Law Professor

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Professor Wang Liming

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Mark (Thor) Hearne

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The audience

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Professor Michelman

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Professors Epstein, Jiang, and Michelman

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Professor Ely

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Professors Michelman and Salkin

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Professor Jiang

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Dean Shen, Joe Waldo

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Professor Jie

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Alan Ackerman

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Group photo from the audience point of view.
We’ll post the group photo later.

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Professor Alexander

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A professional photographer is taking shots for the record.
Until those are made available, you will have to settle for ours.

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Professor Hui

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The Moot Courtroom at the law school is very wired.

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A full transcript is being recorded, and will be available.

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We’re live at the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing.

Continue Reading Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference – Live Blog

Last week, after the welcome reception at the U.S. Embassy celebrating the Brigham-Kanner Conference’s visit to Beijing and the awarding of the B-K prize to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, I had a chance to meet up with an old law school classmate and friend, Laurence Brahm.

Since our graduation nearly a quarter-century ago, Laurence has led a life that can best be described as “interesting” (as in “may you live in interesting times”), and he has not followed the usual lawyer career path. Lawyer, filmmaker, hotelier, economic advisor, philanthropist, author, futurist, and restaurateur, among many others. Over drinks and dinner at his retro-kitschy Red Capital restaurant (now that is the PRC I remember!), we caught up and Continue Reading Brigham-Kanner Conference: An Evening With An Old Friend

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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.

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These days, it hardly seems “forbidden.” To anyone. It felt like 1/2 of the population of Beijing was there. Most definitely a change from the last time I was here.

Tonight is the reception at the U.S. Embassy in honor of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. I won’t be able to bring you any photos of the event. For security reasons, the Embassy forbids (there’s that word again) cameras, mobile phones, and similar. If we’re lucky, an official photographer will be there and I can cajole him into letting us access a photo or two.Continue Reading Brigham-Kanner Conference Warmup

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…

Continue Reading Brigham-Kanner Conference: Professor Kanner’s (First) Thoughts

As I travel to Beijing today for the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, I’m drawn back thirty-three years to my first (and only prior) visit to the People’s Republic of China.

It was a different China in 1978. Just emerging after nearly thirty years of isolation and mostly closed off to the western world, it indeed emphasized the “People’s Republic” part of its name. Chairman Mao was less than two years dead and Hua Gofeng, Mao’s successor, had only recently ended the Cultural Revolution. Most people still wore the zhongshan (aka Mao suit), carried their copy of the “little red book” (Quotations From Chairman Mao) in a pocket, and the only contact they’d ever had with foreigners was perhaps with visiting Soviet officials. Beijing was a flat city with very few structures taller than the Great Hall of the People.

To enter the PRC…

Continue Reading Brigham-Kanner Conference In Beijing: Reflections On A Three-Decade Absence

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.

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A property rights conference in the PRC? Should be interesting.

Here‘s the agenda and the list of sessions.

The honoree this year is Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The speakers include the past winners of the B-K prize, Frank Michelman, Richard Epstein, James Ely, Margaret Jane Radin, Robert Ellickson, Richard Pipes, and Carol Rose. In addition to these luminaries in the property law and property rights field, the speakers include the top property law scholars and practitioners in the U.S. (Alan Ackerman, Andy Brigham, Jim Burling, David Callies…

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