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As you already know, registration is also underway for the 22d Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 23-24, 2025, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.

The Conference is expressly designed to get legal academics and the nation's best dirt law practitioners in the same room, discussing how legal scholarship and law practice work hand-in-hand to shape the law.

Professor William Fischel will be awarded the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize, recognizing his lifetime of work in the field. For example, he's brought new insights on famous cases such as the cedar rust/necessity takings case, exactions and land use, Lucas, and Kelo, just to name a few.

This will be an excellent event. Check out the agenda:

• Property and Governance: A Tribute to William Fischel will explore Fischel’s impact across law, economics, and planning, and its relevance to today’s housing and property debates.
• Property Rights and Abundance will examine the “abundance agenda” and how legal frameworks shape growth in housing, infrastructure, and clean energy.
• Kelo at 20: Public Use and Private Benefit revisits the landmark Kelo v. City of New London decision, its constitutional foundations, and its legacy in eminent domain law.
• Public Safety, Private Property, and Just Compensation will discuss the legal complexities of property damage caused by law enforcement and emergency responses, and the role of “necessity” in Takings law.
• Property Rights Roundtable will feature a dynamic session on emerging litigation issues and comparative insights from English property law.

Fall is a wonderful time to spend a few days in Williamsburg. Register here to join us. 

            

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