Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference
Law School to Host Sixth Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Oct. 16-17
The annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference is presented by the W&M Property Rights Project and the Institute of Bill of Rights Law. It is named in recognition of Toby Prince Brigham and Gideon Kanner for their lifetime contributions to private property rights. Now in its sixth year, the conference is designed to bring together members of the bench, bar and academia to explore recent developments in takings law and other areas of the law affecting property rights. During the conference, the Project presents the Brigham-Kanner Prize to an outstanding figure in the field. Previous recipients of the Brigham-Kanner Prize include Professor Frank I. Michelman of Harvard Law School (2004), Professor Richard A. Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School(2005), Professor James W. Ely, Jr. of Vanderbilt Law School (2006), Professor Margaret Jane Radin of the University of Michigan Law School (2007), and Professor Robert C. Ellickson of Yale Law School (2008).
The Sixth annual conference will be held October 16-17, 2009. Professor Emeritus Richard Edgar Pipes of Harvard University will be honored with the 2009 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize. Pipes taught at Harvard University from 1950 until his retirement in 1996. He was the director of Harvard's Russian Research Center from 1968 to 1973 and is now Baird Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard University.
