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Yosemite_conference One conference down, one to go.

We’re on the way back from the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in Beijing, and on our way to the California State Bar Environmental Law Section’s annual conference at Yosemite N.P., which begins later this week. More information about the conference here.

Along with U.C. Berkeley law professor Joseph Sax and Deputy California Attorney General Daniel L. Siegel, I will be speaking about “Regulatory Takings: Looking Back and Looking Forward.” E. Clement Shute will moderate the panel discussion.

We will be discussing the seminal regulatory takings cases from the past 20 years. “The panelists, who have been involved in several of the most significant takings cases since even before the founding of the annual Yosemite Environmental Law Conference twenty years ago, will highlight key decisions, offer their views on the evolution of takings law, and discuss cutting-edge issues raised by more recent…

Continue Reading California Bar’s Yosemite Conference: “Regulatory Takings: Looking Back and Looking Forward”

Well, we were beset by a series of technical difficulties yesterday (the internet connection suddenly spit us out, we were unable to log back on, our laptop just shut off, followed by mysterious battery problems), so we were not able to continue the live blog.(Was it something we said?)

That’s ok, since by then it was 2 am ET, and I suspect no one but the hardest core of takings nerds were up in the wee hours of Saturday following a live blog. Or at least I hope not.

What we’ll do instead is post a few of the photos we were able to take (stand by for more from W&M’s professional photographer who is accompanying us), and in a subsequent post (today’s a tour day) summarize our thoughts about this most unusual legal conference.

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Tsinghua Law School

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Professor Henry Smith (Harvard) speaking on custom
and the developing law of…

Continue Reading Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference – Second Day Photos

Most interesting comments at tonight’s event awarding the Brigham-Kanner prize to Justice (Ret.) Sandra Day O’Connor were the remarks by the Dean of Tsinghua Law School.

“When you amended your Constitution for the first time,” he noted, “you protected things such as speech. When China amended its Constitution for the first time, we protected property.”Continue Reading Brigham-Kanner Conference: In China, Property Rights Are In The First Amendment

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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

12.WATHIWe’ve just finalized the agenda and faculty for the Hawaii Water Law conference, to be held in Honolulu on January 11, 2012. I am the planning co-chair along with Jesse Souki, Director of the State of Hawaii Office of Planning.

In addition to Jesse and me, we’ve assembled a diverse and talented faculty: UH lawprof David Callies will speak with Elijah Yip (Cades) on the latest developments in water law and public trust litigation. State Water Commissioner Lawrence Miike will update us on the latest goings-on at the Commission. My Damon Key partner Greg Kugle is speaking with Leo Asuncion, the Manager of the Coastal Zone Management Program at the State Office of Planning on coastal issues.

After lunch, we have a special guest, Ed Thomas (a lawyer and President of the National Hazard Mitigation Association, and a nationaly known expert in floodplain management and disaster…

Continue Reading Mark Your Calendars: Hawaii Water Law Conference (Jan. 11, 2012)

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.

Admin note: We’ve added “Brigham-Kanner Conference” as a separate category to catalog the posts related to the Conference. In order to read all of the posts under this topic, go here.

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…

Continue Reading Blogging From Beijing: The Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference

ABA_SLGMark your calendars: as part of the Fall Meeting of the ABA’s Section of State & Local Government Law in Tucson, on Thursday, September 22, I’ll be on a panel discussing the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan, “Ethical Considerations for Municipal Attorneys: Caught in the Crosshairs Reconciling the Rules of Professional Conduct with Government Ethics Laws.” Here’s what we’ll be discussing:

This CLE is a panel discussion of the recent United States Supreme Court opinion Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan. At the heart of this case is how far a State may go in policing public officials who face a potential conflict of interest in conducting government business. The panel will discuss the case, the ruling, its ethical implications and questions still to be answered.

Joining me in the discussion will be Yvonne M. Nevarez-Goodson (Commission Counsel and one of…

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Mark your calendars for October 20 – 23, 2011. That’s when the State Bar of California will present its 20th Anniversary Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® (yes, it is trademarked), at the Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp, California.

Along with U.C. Berkeley law professor Joseph Sax and Deputy California Attorney General Daniel L. Siegel, I will be speaking about “Regulatory Takings: Looking Back and Looking Forward.”

We will be discussing the seminal regulatory takings cases from the past 20 years. “The panelists, who have been involved in several of the most significant takings cases since even before the founding of the annual Yosemite Environmental Law Conference twenty years ago, will highlight key decisions, offer their views on the evolution of takings law, and discuss cutting-edge issues raised by more recent court decisions.”  E. Clement Shute will moderate the panel discussion.

The Yosemite program, sponsored by the CSB’s…

Continue Reading “Regulatory Takings: Looking Back and Looking Forward” At The Cal Bar’s Yosemite Conference

Here’s what we’re reading this fine summer Monday:

  • Land Use Institute – Although we won’t be able to attend the upcoming annual ALI-ABA program in Boston due to a scheduling conflict, we have attended several times in the recent past, and can highly recommend it. The faculty, as usual, is stellar, and includes colleagues Michael Berger,  Amy Brigham Boulris, Bob Foster, Patricia Salkin, Julie Tappendorf, and Gideon Kanner. 
  • 2011 Takings Conference – Another law conference (November 19, 2011), this one devoted (mostly) to how to defeat regulatory

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Continue Reading Monday Round-Up: Vested Rights, Land Use Institute, And More