The Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Prize is awarded each Fall by the
William & Mary Law School
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Located in Williamsburg, Virginia, the school is the oldest extant law school in th ...
, at the
Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. The Conference and Prize were proposed in 2003 by
Joseph T. Waldo, a graduate of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law with the support of the then Dean of the Law School,
W. Taylor Reveley, III
Walter Taylor Reveley III (born January 6, 1943) is an American legal scholar and former lawyer. He served as the twenty-seventh president of the College of William & Mary. , who would later become president of the college. The Conference and Prize were inaugurated in 2004. The Conference and Prize are named after
Toby Prince Brigham and
Gideon Kanner
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for "their contributions to private property rights, their efforts to advance the constitutional protection of property, and their accomplishments in preserving the important role that private property plays in protecting individual and civil rights." Toby Prince Brigham is a founding partner of Brigham Moore in Florida. Gideon Kanner is professor of law emeritus at the
Loyola Law School
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Academics
Degrees offered include the Juris Doctor (JD); Master of Science in Legal ...
in Los Angeles. The Brigham-Kanner Prize is awarded annually during the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference.
Since 2004, the Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Prize has been awarded to a scholar, practitioner or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of property rights and contributes to the overall awareness of the role property rights occupy in the broader scheme of individual liberty.
Recipients
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Frank Michelman (2004), Robert Walmsley University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, for his article ''Property, Utility, and Fairness: Comments on the Ethical Foundations of 'Just Compensation' Law.''
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Richard Allen Epstein
Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at Ne ...
(2005), James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, for his book ''Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain.''
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James W. Ely, Jr. (2006), Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law, Emeritus at Vanderbilt University, for his book ''The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights.''
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Margaret Radin (2007), Henry King Ranson Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and Faculty of Law Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Toronto, for her books ''Contested Commodities'' and ''Reinterpreting Property''.
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Robert C. Ellickson (2008), Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale University, for his body of work on property.
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Richard Pipes
Richard Edgar Pipes ( yi, ריכארד פּיִפּעץ ''Rikhard Pipets'', the surname literally means 'beak'; pl, Ryszard Pipes; July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American academic who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. He publi ...
(2009), Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
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Carol M. Rose (2010), Lohse Chair in Water and Natural Resources professor at the University of Arizona Jame E. Rogers College of Law, for her involvement in property rights at Yale Law School and her books ''Perspectives on Property Law and Property'' and ''Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory, and Rhetoric of Ownership''.
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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(2011) for her lifetime of contributions to property rights law, particularly her dissent in ''Kelo v. City of New London''.
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James E. Krier (2012), Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, for his lifetime of scholarship, including his casebook on Property.
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Thomas W. Merrill (2013), Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, for his body of scholarship on property, including the books ''Property: Takings'' and ''Property: Principles and Policies''.
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Michael M. Berger
Michael M. Berger is an eminent domain and land use lawyer at the firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. His practice focuses on eminent domain, inverse condemnation, due process, and equal protection. Berger received his undergraduate degree at Br ...
(2014), appellate attorney at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, for his years of property rights advocacy in the courts.
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Joseph W. Singer
Joseph William Singer is an American legal theorist specializing in property law. He is the Bussey Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he has been teaching since 1992. Previously, he taught at Boston University School of Law and practice ...
(2015), Bussey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, for his body of scholarship on property rights.
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Hernando de Soto Polar (2016), author of ''
The Mystery of Capital
Hernando Soto Polar (commonly known Hernando de Soto ; born June 2, 1941) is a prominent Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights. His work on the developing world has ea ...
: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Elsewhere'', and ''The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism'', for his writing and his efforts at designing and implementing property-rights reforms in developing nations around the world.
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David L. Callies David Lee Callies (born April 21, 1943) is the Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law
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(2017), author of ''Regulating Paradise'' and ''Preserving Paradise'' and Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law at the
William S. Richardson School of Law
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at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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, for his decades of practicing, teaching, and contributing to the scholarship of property law.
*Stewart E. Sterk (2018), H. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law and Director of the Center for Real Estate Law at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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for his years of teaching property law and his body of scholarship on property rights.
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Steven J. Eagle (2019), Professor of Law at the
Antonin Scalia School of Law
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, author of the treatise ''Regulatory Takings'', and a prolific author and speaker in the field of real estate law and takings law whose work has been cited by the
Supreme Court of the United States
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.
*Henry E. Smith (2020), Fessenden Professor of Law at
Harvard Law School
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Each class ...
for his body of scholarship on Property Law, including several casebooks, years of teaching property law, and position as a Reporter on the
Restatement (Fourth) of Property.
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Vicki Been (2021), New York City Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at
New York University School of Law
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, an Affiliated Professor of Public Policy of the New York University's
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Faculty Director of New York University's
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
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, and former commissioner of
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, for her scholarship and research in many areas of property law and applications thereof in New York City housing.
*James S. Burling (2022), Vice President of Legal Affairs for the
Pacific Legal Foundation
Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is a libertarian public interest law firm in the United States.Zumbrun, Ronald A. (2004). "Life, Liberty, and Property Rights," in ''Bringing Justice to the People: The Story of the Freedom-Based Public Interest L ...
, for his decades of advocacy for the civil right of private property ownership, both as an attorney for property owners, including before the
Supreme Court of the United States
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in ''
Palazzolo v. Rhode Island
''Palazzolo v. Rhode Island'', 533 U.S. 606 (2001), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a claimant does not waive his right to challenge a regulation as an uncompensated regulatory taking by purchasing property aft ...
'', and as an author.
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Gregory S. Alexander
Gregory S. Alexander is an American lawyer and author. He currently serves as the A. Robert Noll Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and is an "internationally renowned expert in property law and theory." He authored several books.
Biography
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(2023), A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Emeritus, at
Cornell Law School
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, for his career of teaching and scholarship on property law, including his books ''Commodity and Propriety'', winner of the
American Publishers Association
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In 1913, the New York Supreme court ruled in favor of R. H Macy's & Co. vs American Publishers Association, saying Macy's ...
1997 Book of the Year in Law award, ''Property and Human Flourishing'', and ''The Global Debate Over Constitutional Property: Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence''.
References
External links
*http://www.bkconference.com
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