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The William & Mary Property Rights Project and the Institute of Bill of Rights Law will present the 4th Annual Brigham Kanner Property Rights Conference in October. Professor Margaret Jane Radin of the University of Michigan Law School will receive the 2007 Property Rights Prize. The William & Mary Law School will host the Fourth Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Oct. 5-6 in Williamsburg, Va.

The conference is presented by the William & Mary Property Rights Project and the Institute of Bills of Rights Law. During the conference, Professor Margaret Jane Radin of the University of Michigan Law School will be honored with the 2007 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize. The conference will include panels on Professor Radin’s work, the application of redevelopment law to blight, case studies of Kelo’s empowerment of condemnors, and abuses of eminent domain. The conference concludes with a roundtable luncheon discussion about whether or not redevelopment projects can succeed without the use of eminent domain.

The Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize is named in recognition of Toby Prince Brigham and Gideon Kanner for their lifetime contributions to private property rights. Previous recipients of the Brigham-Kanner Prize include Professor Frank I. Michelman (2004), Professor Richard A. Epstein (2005), and Professor James W. Ely, Jr. (2006).

Panelists include George B. Autry, Jr., of Cranfill, Sumner and Hartzog, LLP, Raleigh, NC; Toby Prince Brigham of Brigham Moore, LLP, Miami, FL; James S. Burling of Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA; the Hon. Dale R. Cathell of the State of Maryland Court of Appeals; Tom Goldstein of the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office, FL; Colin Gordon of the University of Iowa; George Lefcoe of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law; Jeffrey Manns of Latham & Watkins, LLP, Washington, DC; Edward D. McKirdy of McKirdy and Riskin, P.A., Morristown, NJ; H. Dixon Montague of Vinson & Elkins, LLP, Houston, TX; Stephen R. Munzer of the University of California at Los Angeles Law School; Frank Schnidman of the Florida Atlantic University Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions; and Charles L. Siemon of Siemon Larsen & Marsh, Boca Raton, FL; Jeffrey E. Stake of the University of Indiana at Bloomington School of Law; James L. Thompson of Miller, Miller & Canby, Chartered, Rockville, MD; Laura S. Underkuffler of Duke University Law School; and Randy Ward of the Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, TX.

Radin, the 2007 recipient of the Brigham-Kanner Prize, is professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty in fall 2007, she was the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law at Stanford University. She also has been on the faculty of the University of Southern California Law Center and has been a visiting professor at UCLA and Harvard. Professor Radin has published prolifically on property rights theory and institutions, commodification, intellectual property, and cyberlaw. Highlights of her property scholarship appear in Contested Commodities (Harvard University Press, 1996) and Reinterpreting Property (University of Chicago Press, 1993).

There is a $50 conference registration fee, which includes admission to all panels and Saturday’s breakfast and roundtable luncheon discussion. Waiver of the registration fee is available for students. Approved for 4 CLE credits in Virginia. For a brochure, contact Kathy Pond at 757-221-3796 or ktpond@wm.edu.

Media Contact: Jaime Welch-Donahue, William & Mary Law School, 757-221-1840, jpwelc@wm.edu.