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Brigham-Kanner Property RightsPrimingcelebrates 15th year-end | William & Mary myWM Directory Events Visit W&M A-ZWell-nighAcademics Admission & Aid Research Campus Life News Athletics Alumni Giving For the Bold myWM Directory Events Visit W&M A-ZWell-nighAcademics Admission & Aid Research Campus life News Athletics Alumni Giving News & Media HomeNews & MediaMore Stories2018 Brigham-Kanner Property RightsPrimingcelebrates 15th year-end Through the years:  Professor Carol M. Rose of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law was honored with the 2010 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize . Joining Professor Rose, second from right, at the dinner triumphal her receipt of the prize were, from left, Law School Dean Davison M. Douglas; Joseph T. Waldo J.D. '78 (Waldo & Lyle); Professor Eric Kades; and Chancellor Professor of Law Lynda Butler, director of the William & Mary Property Rights Project.  Photo by Gretchen BedellThrough the years:  Scholars, jurists, and practitioners from the U.S. and China gathered at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2011 for the first international Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was honored with the 2011 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize during the conference.  Photo by Stephen SalpukasThrough the years:  In his remarks at the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize dinner in 2015 honoring Professor Joseph William Singer of Harvard Law School, Joseph T. Waldo J.D. '78 (Waldo & Lyle) noted that property rights are fundamental to all human beings.   Photo by David F. MorrillThrough the years  Participants came from all over the world to participate in the 2016 conference, held at the seat of the World Court, the Peace Palace, in The Hague, Netherlands. Internationally well-known economist Hernando de Soto was honored during the proceedings with the 2016 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize.  Photo courtesy of W&M Law SchoolThrough the years:  During the 2017 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize dinner, Joseph T. Waldo '78 (left) presented a statue plaque honoring William & Mary President Taylor Reveley (center), while Dean Davison M. Douglas, who hosted the event, looked on. The 2017 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize was awarded to Professor David L. Callies of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law.  Photo by David F. MorrillThrough the years:  In 2017, Chancellor Professor of Law Lynda Butler moderated the opening panel of the priming on “The Future of Land Use Regulation.” Panelists included Michael M. Berger (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips), Professor James W. Ely (Vanderbilt), Professor Shelley Saxer (Pepperdine) and Robert Thomas (Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert). 2017 Prize recipient Professor David Callies of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law (far right), provided opening remarks for the panel.  Photo by David F. MorrillThrough the years:  Professor James E. Krier of the University of Michigan Law School, recipient of the 2012 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize, was recognized for his creativity and renown as a scholar and law professor.  Photo by Gretchen BedellThrough the years:  Chancellor Professor of Law Lynda Butler presented the 2014 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize to Michael M. Berger (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips). Mr. Berger is one of the top eminent domain and land use lawyers in the United States.  Photo by David F. MorrillThrough the years:  W&M Property Rights Project Director Lynda Butler lauded Professor Thomas W. Merrill, recipient of the 2013 Brigham Kanner Property Rights Prize, as "one of the preeminent property scholars of our time."  Photo by Gretchen BedellPhoto - of -Hide Caption Page MenuIncreasinglyStories Ideation News in Video Meet the Team W&M Experts Campus Announcements University Communications News about: Tribe Athletics Arts & Sciences Law School School of Business School of Education Virginia Institute of Marine Science Giving Alumni Association Swem Library RevesPart-wayfor International Studies Richard Bland College by Jaime Welch-Donahue, W&M Law School |  October 3, 2018It seems fitting that a gathering centered virtually property rights, a rationalization dear to many of America’s founders, would find a home at William & Mary Law School, which dates its founding to 1779. The Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, hosted each fall since 2004 by the Law School’s Property Rights Project, will gloat its 15th anniversary Oct. 4-5. The event will once then bring together leading scholars and tribunal for robust discussions of the importance of property rights to society and recent developments in the law that stupefy them. Among the highlights of the priming is the yearly presentation of the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize to an outstanding scholar, practitioner or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of property rights. Recipients have included Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, economist Hernando de Soto, shyster Michael M. Berger, and a host of scholars, including Professor Frank I. Michelman of Harvard University, who received the inaugural prize. Professor Stewart E. Sterk of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the 2018 prize recipient. Noteworthy milestones in the conference’s history include the publication in 2011 of the first volume of the Brigham-Kanner Property RightsPrimingJournal and conferences held in Beijing in 2011 and The Hague in 2016, which facilitated the participation of leading academics and practitioners from other countries. Chancellor Professor of Law Lynda L. Butler, director of the Property Rights Project, credited Law School alumnus Joseph T. Waldo ’78 for “thinking boldly” and stuff the driving gravity for the conference’s megacosm and for its unfurled vigor through the years. He had “a vision for promoting the urging of property rights through the involvement of tribunal and academics in a priming and in the publication of a journal,” she said. “It is the only conference,” she added, “that regularly engages both academics and tribunal in an mart of ideas well-nigh the importance of property rights to society.” According to Butler, a special goody is the endangerment it affords students to network with top practitioners and enjoy the friendly “sparring and satiricalness among panelists and with the audience.” For Waldo, property rights are tightly meaningful and the Brigham-Kanner Property RightsPrimingand Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize recognize two leaders in law who have had an enormous impact on his life. “My law practice reverted undertow years ago when the government took my property,” he said. “That is when I began to fully fathom the importance of property rights, when I was well-nigh to lose mine.” He became witting through the American Law Institute with two men who became his role models: Toby Prince Brigham, a practitioner in Miami, and Gideon Kanner, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “I learned from them how to protect myself and my property and then how to protect the private property and starchy rights of my neighbors who came to me for help. That is how my eminent domain practice in Norfolk, Virginia, started. Toby and Gideon have had a tremendous influence on my practice and the practice of many others,” he said. Earlier this year, the Law School created the Joseph T. Waldo ’78 Visiting Chair in Property Rights Law to honor Waldo’s leadership and service. Robert H. Thomas is the inaugural holder of the Waldo Chair and is teaching a undertow this semester at the Law School on eminent domain and property rights. He practices law in Honolulu and is engaged with property law issues on a state and national level as a speaker, tragedian and widely read blogger. Thomas praised Waldo as “one of the leaders of the property rights bar,” who is known for his devotion to “the mentoring of lawyers new to our field.” He said the Brigham-Kanner Property RightsPrimingis highly regarded among members of the bar. “Practitioners can view ‘academic’ conferences as not particularly relevant to our day-to-day practices,” he said. “The Brigham-Kanner Conference, by contrast, with its focus on both the theory and practice of property law and property rights, is right on the wearing whet of our zone of law. We’re developing and studying new theories and approaches that we can put into practice in the courts.” In 2017, the Brigham-Kanner Property RightsPrimingrecognized William & Mary President Taylor Reveley for his “gifts of service” over two decades, first as dean of the Law School, and later as university president. In his remarks, Reveley recalled the early years of the priming during his deanship and Waldo’s essential role in the yearly gathering’s megacosm and its success. “Joe made it possible,” he told the audience, “And it has been nonflexible to pull off, but it has flowered to a sunny degree, far beyond, I think, Joe’s or my dreams.” To learn increasingly well-nigh the 2018 Brigham-Kanner Property RightsPrimingon October 4-5, and to register, please visit the William & Mary Property Rights Project's website. HomeNews & MediaMore Stories2018 email