Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference

Infobox Recurring_event


begins = Friday
ends = Saturday
date = October 17, 2008
location = The William & Mary Law School
first = October 2004

History

The Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference began in 2004 at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary. Annually the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference awards the Brigham-Kanner Prize to an individual whose work has advanced the cause of property rights and has contributed to the overall awareness of the important role property rights occupy in the broader scheme of individual liberty.

To that end the Brigham-Kanner Prize has been awarded to Frank Michelman, of Harvard Law School, Richard Epstein, of the University of Chicago Law School, James Ely, of Vanderbilt University Law School and Margaret Radin, of the University of Michigan Law School.

The Conference begins on a Friday afternoon with panel discussions featuring the nation's leading property rights scholars and practitioners. The annual Brigham-Kanner Prize is awarded the recipient on Friday evening during a candlelight dinner in the historic Great Hall of the Wren Building, the oldest college building in the United States. The Conference continues on Saturday morning with additional panels and concludes with a luncheon featuring presentations by the Conference's namesakes, Toby Prince Brigham and Gideon Kanner.

The Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference is renowned for its outstanding panel discussions and for bringing together the bench, bar, and academics on its panels. The Conference is notable for its encouragement of active participation from the audience through its question and answer segments with each of the panels.

Previous Recipients of the Brigham-Kanner Prize

2004 Frank Michelman, of Harvard Law School
2005 Richard Epstein, of the University of Chicago Law School
2006 James Ely, of Vanderbilt University Law School
2007 Margaret Radin, of the University of Michigan Law School
2008 Robert C. Ellickson, Yale Law School

Notable Panelists

 Lee Fennell, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
 Nicole Stelle Garnett, Professor of Law University of Notre Dame Law School
 The Honorable Maureen O’Connor, Supreme Court of Ohio
 Eduardo M. Penalver, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
 Richard J. Lazarus, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
 Laura S. Underkuffler, Professor of Law, Duke Law School
 Gregory S. Alexander, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
 The Honorable Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
 The Honorable Rebecca Beach Smith, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
 James. S. Burling, Principal Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation
 Steven J. Eagle, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
 Daniel R. Mandelker, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
 Ronald H. Rosenberg, Professor of Law, Marshall-Wythe School of Law
 Timothy J. Dowling, Chief Counsel, Community Rights Counsel
 The Honorable Jonathan M. Apgar, Circuit Court of Virginia, Roanoke City, Virginia
 William A. Fischel, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
 Carol M. Rose, Professor of Law, University of Arizona
 Henry E. Smith, Professor of Property and Environmental Law, Yale Law School
 Michael M. Berger, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
 Gideon Kanner, Of Counsel, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
 Toby Prince Brigham, Founding Partner, Brigham Moore, LLP
 Roderick M. Hills, Jr., Professor of Law, New York University Law School
 Stewart E. Sterk, Professor of Real Estate Law, Cardozo Law School
 Vicki L. Been, Professor of Law, New York University Law School
 Eric R. Clayes, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School
 James W. Ely, Jr., Professor of Law and History, Vanderbilt University
 Dana Berliner, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
 M. Timothy Iglesias, Associate Professor University of San Francisco Law School
 Bradley C. Karkkainen, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
 Joseph T. Waldo, Founding Partner, Waldo & Lyle, P.C.
 Colin Gordon, Professor of History, University of Iowa
 George Lefcoe, Professor of Real Estate Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
 Jeffrey Manns, Associate Latham & Watkins, LLP
 The Honorable Dale R. Cathell, Maryland Court of Appeals
 H. Dixon Montague, Partner, Vinson & Elkins, LLP
 James L. Thompson, Member, Miller & Canby
 Stephen R. Munzer, Professor of Law, UCLA
 Jeffrey E. Stake, Professor of Law, Indiana University at Bloomington School of Law
 Tom Goldstein, Assistant County Attorney, Miami-Dade County, Florida
 Edward D. McKirdy, Member, McKirdy and Rishkin, P.A.
 Randy Ward, Attorney, Texas Department of Transportation
 Frank Schnidman, Senior Fellow, International Programs, Florida Atlantic University Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions
 Charles L. Siemon, Partner, Siemon Larsen & Marsh

External links

*http://newlaw.wm.edu/alumni/events/brigham-kanner-property-rights-conference.php
*http://web.wm.edu/law/news/sNewsMU/home/law-school-to-host-fifth-annual-brighamkanner-property-rights-conference-oct-1718/
*http://www.law.yale.edu/news/7694.htm
*http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/REllickson.htm