Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Conference

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 Property Rights 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.

In 2011 the Conference, which most years is hosted at William & Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law, was hosted by Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. During the 2011 Conference, which was the Eighth Annual Brigham Kanner Property Rights Conference, Retired United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor received the Brigham Kanner Prize. The 2011 Conference featured lectures and panel discussions by the leading property rights scholars and practitioners from China and the United States.

The Conference brings 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 the leading property rights scholars and practitioners.

Beginning in 2011, the Conference began publishing the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal as a chronicle of the Conference's panels. Volume 1 features 17 articles that explore the similarities and differences of the property systems in the U.S., China, and other countries. The articles were written by leading scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and China. Articles provide a comparative analysis of legal protection of property rights and also explore topics such as the role of property in promoting social and economic policy, the impact of culture on property systems, and the relationship between property rights and the environment. Four articles reflect on Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's property rights decisions, in recognition of her receipt of the 2011 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize.

The Thirteenth Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference will be held on October 19–21, 2 2016 at The Hague, in the Netherlands. The 2016 recipient of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize will be Hernando de Soto. The official press release from William and Mary is available here.

Recipients of the Brigham-Kanner Prize

• 2004 – Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School
• 2005 – Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
• 2006 – James Ely, Vanderbilt University Law School
• 2007 – Margaret Radin, University of Michigan Law School
• 2008 – Robert Ellickson, Yale Law School
• 2009 – Richard Pipes, Harvard University
• 2010 – Carol M. Rose, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
• 2011 – Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (retired)
• 2012 – James E. Krier, University of Michigan Law School
• 2013 – Thomas W. Merrill, Columbia Law School
• 2014 – Michael M. Berger, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
• 2015 – Joseph W. Singer, Harvard Law School
• 2016 – Hernando de Soto Polar, Institute for Liberty and Democracy

Notable panelists

1. Stephanie M. Stern, Associate Professor of Law, Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar, Chicago-Kent College of Law
2. Janice Nadler, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
3. Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Associate Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law
4. Andrew Prince Brigham, Partner, Brigham Moore, LLP
5. John V. Orth, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law
6. Alfred L. Brophy, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law
7. Lee Fennell, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
8. Nicole Stelle Garnett, Professor of Law University of Notre Dame Law School
9. Maureen O'Connor, Supreme Court of Ohio
10. Eduardo M. Penalver, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
11. Richard J. Lazarus, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
12. Laura S. Underkuffler, Professor of Law, Duke Law School
13. Gregory S. Alexander, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
14. Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
15. Rebecca Beach Smith, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
16. James. S. Burling, Principal Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation
17. Steven J. Eagle, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
18. Daniel R. Mandelker, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
19. Ronald H. Rosenberg, Professor of Law, Marshall-Wythe School of Law
20. Timothy J. Dowling, Chief Counsel, Community Rights Counsel
21. Jonathan M. Apgar, Circuit Court of Virginia, Roanoke City, Virginia
22. William A. Fischel, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
23. Henry E. Smith, Professor of Property and Environmental Law, Yale Law School
24. Michael M. Berger, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
25. Gideon Kanner, Professor of Law Emeritus, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
26. Toby Prince Brigham, Founding Partner, Brigham Moore, LLP
27. Roderick M. Hills, Jr., Professor of Law, New York University Law School
28. Stewart E. Sterk, Professor of Real Estate Law, Cardozo Law School
29. Vicki L. Been, Professor of Law, New York University Law School
30. Eric R. Clayes, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University Law School
31. Dana Berliner, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
32. M. Timothy Iglesias, Associate Professor University of San Francisco Law School
33. Bradley C. Karkkainen, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
34. Joseph T. Waldo, Founding Partner, Waldo & Lyle, P.C.
35. Colin Gordon, Professor of History, University of Iowa
36. George Lefcoe, Professor of Real Estate Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
37. Jeffrey Manns, Associate Professor, George Washington University Law School
38. Dale R. Cathell, Maryland Court of Appeals
39. H. Dixon Montague, Partner, Vinson & Elkins, LLP
40. James L. Thompson, Member, Miller & Canby
41. Stephen R. Munzer, Professor of Law, UCLA
42. Jeffrey E. Stake, Professor of Law, Indiana University at Bloomington School of Law
43. Tom Goldstein, Assistant County Attorney, Miami-Dade County, Florida
44. Edward D. McKirdy, Member, McKirdy and Rishkin, P.A.
45. Randy Ward, Attorney, Texas Department of Transportation
46. Frank Schnidman, Senior Fellow, International Programs, Florida Atlantic University Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions
47. Charles L. Siemon, Partner, Siemon Larsen & Marsh
48. Stuart Banner, Professor of Law, University of California at Los Angeles Law School
49. Charles W. McCurdy, Professor of History and Law, University of Virginia
50. John V. Orth, William Rand Denan, Jr., Professor of Law, University of North Carolina Law School
51. Stephanie M. Stern, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago Law School
52. Eric Kades, Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School

External links

• http://www.bkconference.com
• 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/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080916084759/http://www.law.yale.edu:80/news/7694.htm
• http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/REllickson.htm