Conferences
5th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference
Presentation of the 2008 Brigham-Kanner Prize to Robert C. Ellickson, Yale Law School
Co-sponsored by the William & Mary Property Rights Project, and the Institute of Bill of Rights Law
October 17-18, 2008
- Michael M. Berger, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, California
- Toby Prince Brigham, Founding Partner, Brigham Moore, LLP, Miami, Florida
- James W. Ely, Jr., Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, Vanderbilt University
- Lee Fennell, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
- Nicole Stelle Garnett, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School
- Roderick M. Hills, Jr., Professor of Law, New York University Law School
- Gideon Kanner, Counsel, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, California; Professor of Law, Emeritus, Loyola Law School
- The Honorable Maureen O’Connor, Supreme Court of Ohio
- Eduardo M. Peñalver, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
- Carol M. Rose, Lohse Chair in Water and Natural Resources, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
- Henry E. Smith, Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property and Environmental Law, Yale Law School
- Stewart E. Sterk, H. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law, Cardozo Law School
- The Honorable Wilford Taylor, Jr., 8th Judicial Circuit Court of Virginia
- Eric A. Kades, Conference Chairman; Vice Dean, Professor of Law and Director of the Property Rights Project
- Lynda L. Butler, Interim Dean and Chancellor Professor of Law
- Joseph T. Waldo, Attorney at Law, Waldo & Lyle, Norfolk, Virginia
How We Vote
Co-sponsored by the William & Mary Election Law Program, and the National Center for State Courts
March 14, 2008
Participants:
- Davison Douglas, William & Mary School of Law
- Edward Foley, Ohio State University, Mortiz School of Law
- John Fortier, The American Enterprise Institute
- Paul Gronke, Reed College, Department of Political Science
- Michael Herron, Dartmouth College, Department of Political Science
- Walter Mebane, University of Michigan, Departments of Political Science and Statistics
- Nathaniel Persily, Columbia Law School
- Daniel Tokaji, Ohio State University, Mortiz School of Law
- Dan Wallach, Rice University, Department of Computer Science
The Fourth Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference
The Presentation of the 2007 Brigham-Kanner Prize to Professor Margaret Jane Radin
October 5-6, 2007
Participants:
- George Autry, Sumner & Hartzog, Raleigh, North CarolinaToby Brigham, Brigham & Moore, LLP, Miami, Florida
- James S. Burling, Pacific Legal Foundation
- The Honorable Dale R. Cathell, State of Maryland Court of Appeals
- Tom Goldstein, Miami Dade County Attorney's Office
- Colin Gordon, University of Iowa, Department of History
- George Lefcoe, University of Southern California Gould School
- Jeffrey Manns, William & Mary School of Law
- Edward D. McKirdy, McKirdy and Riskin, PA
- H. Dixon Montague, Vinson & Elkins, LLP, Houston, Texas
- Stephen R. Munzer, UCLA School of Law
- Margaret Jane Radin, University of Michigan Law School
- Frank Schnidman, Florida Atlantic University at Fort Lauderdale, Center for Urban and Environmental Studies, International Programs
- Charles Siemon, Siemon & Larsen, Boca Raton, Florida
- Jeffrey E. Stake, University of Indiana—Bloomington School of Law
- James L Thompson, Miller, Miller & Canby, Rockville, MD; Past President, Maryland State Bar Association
- Laura Underkuffler, Duke Law School
- Randy Ward, Texas Department of Transportation
Summit on Newborns in the Child Protective System
November 10, 2006
This conference will bring together legislators, judges, administrative officials, attorneys, social workers, child-development experts, and others involved in the child protective system to formulate a legislative plan for Virginia. Its aim is to improve legal decision making for newborn children whose parents are unable to care for them. Specific focus will be on refining the rules for adoption and termination of parental rights, in order to better reflect the special circumstances of newborn children. Conclusions will be drawn from empirical research, observations of experts involved in the child protective system and models of legislation from other states. This summit follows two prior Institute of Bill of Rights Law conferences in which legal scholars debated the moral, legal and social science implications of states’ decisions regarding children’s family relationships.
The Third Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference
October 7, 2006
Participants:
- Stuart Banner, UCLA School of Law
- Charles McCurdy, University of Virginia, Department of History
- John Orth, University of North Carolina School of Law
- Gerald Torres, University of Texas Law School
- Michael Heller, Columbia Law School
- Michael Berger, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles
Conference on Law and Morality
March 16-18 2006
Program Schedule:
Thursday, March 16, 2006
4:00 – 5:00
Introductory Remarks
Michael Moore (Illinois)
Friday, March 17, 2006
8:30 – 10:30 Contracts
- Nathan Oman, Moderator, Sidley, Austin
- Peter Alces, William & Mary School of Law
- James Gordley University of California at Berkeley School of Law
- Peter Benson, University of Toronto
10:50- 12:50 Torts
- Michael Green, Moderator, William & Mary School of Law
- Jules Coleman, Yale Law School
- Arthur Ripstein, University of Toronto
- Benjamin Zipursky, Fordham University School of Law
- Heidi Hurd, University of Illinois College of Law
2:00 – 4:00 Constitutional Law
- William Van Alstyne, Moderator, William & Mary School of Law
- Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law
- Fred Schauer, Harvard, Kennedy School of Government
- Kent Greenwalt, Columbia Law School
Saturday, March 18, 2006
9:30-11:30 Property Law
- James G. Dwyer, Moderator, William & Mary School of Law
- Carol Rose, University of Arizona College of Law
- Thomas Merrill, Columbia Law School
- Henry Smith, Yale Law School
- Emily Sherwin, Cornell University Law School
1:30-3:30 Criminal Law, Parts 1 & 2
- Cynthia Ward, Moderator, William & Mary School of Law
- Claire Finkelstein, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Paul Robinson, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Kyron Huigens, Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law
Second Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Participants:
- Vicki Been, New York University Law School
- Dana Berliner, Institute for Justice
- James Ely, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
- Michael Heller, Columbia Law School
- Eric Kades, William & Mary School of Law
Task Force Roundtable: Reforming Parentage Laws
September 30 & October 1, 2005
Participants:
- Elizabeth Bartholet, Harvard Law School
- Doug Besharov, University of Maryland School of Public Affairs and Scholar in Social Welfare Studies; The American Enterprise Institute
- Karen Czapanskiy, University of Maryland School of Law
- Howard Davidson, ABA Center on Children and the Law
- Nancy Dowd, University of Florida, Levin College of Law
- James Dwyer, William & Mary School of Law
- David D. Meyer, University of Illinois College of Law
- Jane C. Murphy, University of Baltimore School of Law
- Mary Welstead, Harvard University
- Brad Wilcox, University of Virginia, Sociology Department
- Robin Fretwell Wilson, University of Maryland School of Law
- Barbara Woodhouse, University of Florida, Levin College of Law
St. George Tucker and His Influence on American Law
February 25, 2005
Participants:
- Paul Carrington, Duke Law School
- Saul Cornell, Ohio State University
- Charles Cullen, President, Newberry Library, Chicago
- Michael Kent Curtis, Wake Forest University School of Law
- Davison M. Douglas, William & Mary School of Law
- Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa College of Law
- Charles Hobson, Editor, John Marshall Papers; William & Mary School of Law
- David Konig, Washington University, St. Louis, History Department
- Craig E. Klafter, President, St. Catherine’s College (Oxford) Foundation
- Kurt T. Lash, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- Mark McGarvie, University of Richmond School of Law
- William Nelson, New York University Law School
Dual Enforcement of Constitutional Norms
Distinguished Guest: The Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
November 14, 2004
This conference is co-sponsored by the National Center for State Courts and the Conference of Chief Justices.
Distinguished Guest & Keynote Speaker:
The Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
Participants:
- The Honorable Shirley S. Abrahamson, Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- James A. Gardner, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law
- The Honorable Leroy Hassell, Sr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
- The Honorable Hans A. Linde, Willamette University College of Law, Oregon Supreme Court (Ret.)
- Robert J. Pushaw, Jr., Pepperdine University School of Law
- The Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
- Daniel B. Rodriguez, University of San Diego School of Law
- Jim Rossi, Florida State University School of Law
- Lawrence G.Sager, University of Texas School of Law
- Robert Schapiro, Emory University School of Law
- The Honorable Randall T. Shepard, Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court
- Michael E. Solimine, University of Cincinnati College of Law
- Robert F. Williams, Rutgers University Law School - Camden
- The Honorable Roger L. Wollman, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
The Inaugural Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference: Takings Law & Property Rights
Recipient: Frank I. Michelman, Harvard Law School
November 6, 2004
Participants:
- Greg Alexander, Cornell Law School
- The Honorable Jonathan M. Apgar, 23rd Judicial Circuit, Roanoke, VA
- Toby Brigham, Brigham & Moore, Miami, FL
- James S. Burling, Pacific Legal Foundation
- Linda Butler, William & Mary School of Law
- Timothy J. Dowling, Chief Counsel, Community Rights Counsel
- Steven Eagle, George Mason University School of Law
- William Fischel, Dartmouth College, Economics Department
- Eric Kades, William & Mary School of Law
- Gideon Kanner, Berger & Norton, CA; Emeritus Professor, Loyola-Los Angeles Law School
- The Honorable Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Richard Lazarus, Georgetown University Law Center
- Daniel Mandelker, Washington University (St. Louis) School of Law
- Ronald Rosenberg, William & Mary School of Law
- The Honorable Rebecca Beach Smith, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
- Gregory Stein, University of Tennessee College of Law
- Laura Underkuffler, Duke Law School
Implications of the Death Penalty and International Law
Co-sponsored by the Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project
April 5, 2004
Participants:
- Sandra Babcock, Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program
- John Blume, Cornell Death Penalty Project
- Catherine Brown, US State Department
- David Cupina, Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Dave Douglas, William & Mary School of Law
- Steve Garvey, Cornell Death Penalty Project
- Roger Groot, Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Sheri Johnson, Cornell Death Penalty Project
- Linda Malone, William & Mary School of Law
- Ved Nanda, University of Denver College of Law
- Muna Ndulo, Institute for African Development Cornell Law School
- Wendy Patten, Human Rights Watch
- Carlos Quesnel, Chargé of Legal Affairs, Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C
- John Quigley, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- William Schabas, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Andre Surena, U.S. Department of State (retired)
- Dr. Brian Tittemore, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Mark Warren , Human Rights Research - Canada
International Conference on the Legal and Policy Implications of Courtroom Technology
Co-sponsored by the Courtroom 21 Project, William & Mary School of Law
February 13-14, 2004
Participants:
- The Honorable Jeremy Barnett, Leeds, (United Kingdom)
- Peter Blanck, University of Iowa
- The Honorable Henry Brooke, Lord Justice of Appeal (England and Wales)
- The Honorable Nancy Gertner, United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts
- Iria Giuffrida, PhD Candidate, Queen Mary College, England
- Richard Herrmann, Blank Rome, LL.P
- Kenneth Hirsh, Duke Law School
- Fredric Lederer, William & Mary School of Law
- Ros MacDonald, Queensland University of Technology School of Law, Australia
- The Honorable Richard Magnus, Subordinate Courts of Singapore, Senior District Judge
- Nancy Marder, Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Wayne Miller, Duke Law School
- Amy Moeves, United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
- Daniel Stepniak, University of Western Australia Law School
- Elizabeth Wiggins, Federal Judicial Center
Property Rights and Economic Development
February 28, 2003
Participants:
- Timothy Besley, London School of Economics
- Robert C. Ellickson, Yale Law School
- Michael Heller, University of Michigan Law School
- Eric Kades, William & Mary School of Law School
- James E. Krier, University of Michigan Law School
- Gary Libecap, University of Arizona, Department of Economics
- Brett McDonnell, University of Minnesota Law School
- Ruth Meinzen-Dick, International Food Policy Research Institute
- Thomas W. Merrill, Northwestern University Law School
- Joyce Palomar, University of Oklahoma Law School
- Troy Paredes, Washington University in St. Louis Law School
- Andrzej Rapaczynski, Columbia Law School
The Militia and the Right to Bear Arms
January 24, 2003
Participants:
- Randy Barnett, Boston University School of Law
- Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa College of Law
- William Merkel, Oxford University
- Sanford Levinson, University of Texas School of Law
- Jonathan S. Simon,,University of Miami School of Law
- H. Richard Uviller, Columbia Law School
Congress and the Constitution
Co-sponsored by The William & Mary Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy
October 18-19, 2002
Participants:
- David P. Currie, University of Chicago School of Law
- Neal Devins, William & Mary School of Law
- Mechele Dickerson, William & Mary School of Law
- Lou Fisher, Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers, Congressional Research Service
- Elizabeth Garrett, University of Chicago School of Law
- Michael J. Gerhardt, William & Mary School of Law
- Elena Kagan, Harvard University Law School
- Michael Klarman, University of Virginia School of Law
- Bruce G. Peabody, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Department of Social Sciences and History
- J. Mitchell Pickerill, Washington State University, Department of Political Science
- Barbara Sinclair, University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Political Science
- Adrian Vermeule, University of Chicago School of Law
- Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University, Department of Politics
- John Choon Yoo, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel; University of California at Berkeley School of Law
Disability and Identity
October 27, 2001
This conference will address legal and philosophical issues pertaining to the disabled. The papers presented at this conference will be published in the William and Mary Law Review.
Participants:
- Samuel Bagenstos, Harvard Law School
- Robert M. Bell, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland
- Peter Blanck, University of Iowa College of Law
- Susanne Bruyere, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
- Davison Douglas, William & Mary School of Law
- Stewart Schwab, Cornell Law School
- Anita Silvers, San Francisco State University, Department of Philosophy
- Aviam Soifer, Boston College Law School
- Chen Song, Resolution Economics
- Michael Stein, William & Mary School of Law
- Susan Stefan, Center for Public Representation
- J. Hoult Verkerke, University of Virginia School of Law
- Amy L. Wax, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Steven Willborn, University of Nebraska College of Law
Religion in the Public Square
March 24, 2000
The papers presented at this conference will be published in the William and Mary Law Review.
Participants:
- Lisa Bressman, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Neal Devins, William & Mary School of Law
- Jim Dwyer, University of Wyoming College of Law
- Carl Esbeck, University of Missouri School of Law
- Marci Hamilton, Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law
- Ira Lupu, George Washington University School of Law
- Michael Perry, Wake Forest University School of Law
- Stephen Smith, Notre Dame University Law School
Bosnia and the Balkans: Conflict and Reconstruction
April 9-11, 1999
Fidelity, Economic Liberty, and 1937
February 27, 1999
Participants:
- David Bernstein, George Mason University School of Law
- Rebecca Brown, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Barry Cushman, University of Virginia School of Law
- James Fleming, Fordham University School of Law
- John Harrison, University of Virginia School of Law
- Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
- John McGinnis, Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law
- Alan Meese, William & Mary School of Law










