Past Recipients of the Brigham-Kanner Prize

2004

Professor Frank I. Michelman earned his B.A. at Yale and his LL.M. at Harvard. He is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School where he has taught since 1963. He is the author of Brennan and Democracy (Princeton University Press 1999) as well as numerous articles on property law and theory, constitutional law and theory, local government law and jurisprudence. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Association of Constitutional Law and of the National Advisory Board of the American Constitution Society. In recognition of his numerous contributions and achievements, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.

Professor Richard A. Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. He is also the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law and the Director of the Law and Economics Program at the University of Chicago Law School. He is an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a senior fellow at the University of Chicago Medical School’s Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. He has written on a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary topics and is the author of numerous works including Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (University of Chicago Press 2003), Simple Rules for a Complex World (Harvard University Press 1995), Bargaining with the State (Princeton University Press 1993) and Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard University Press 1985). He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985.

2006
Emeritus Professor James W. Ely, Jr., was the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise, a professor of law, and a professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He has written about a wide range of topics in legal history and is the author of numerous works including The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights (Oxford University Press, 3^rd edition 2008), American Legal History: Cases and Materials (Oxford University Press (3rd ed. 2005) (with Kermit L. Hall and Paul Finkelman), The Fuller Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (ABC-CLIO, 2003), and Railroads and American Law (University Press of Kansas, 2001). Ely served as assistant editor of the American Journal of Legal History from 1987 to1989. Since joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 1979, he has also received numerous teaching awards.

2007
Professor Margaret Jane Radin is the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty in fall 2007, she was the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, and director of Stanford Law School's Program in Law, Science and Technology at Stanford University. She also has been on the faculty of the University of Southern California Law Center and has been a visiting professor at UCLA and Harvard. Radin has published prolifically on property rights theory and institutions, commodification, intellectual property, and cyberlaw. Highlights of her property scholarship appear in Contested Commodities (Harvard University Press 1996) and Reinterpreting Property (University of Chicago Press 1993).

2008
Professor Robert C. Ellickson is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 1988, he was a member of the law faculties at the University of Southern California and Stanford University. Professor Ellickson's books include The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth (2008), Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes (1991), Land Use Controls (with Vicki L. Been) (3d ed 2005), and Perspectives on Property Law (with Carol M. Rose and Bruce A. Ackerman)(3d ed 2002). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was President of the American Law and Economics Association in 2001.

2009
Professor Richard E. Pipes is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Among his appointments, he served as Director of Harvard University’s Russian Research Center from 1968-1973, as Chairman of the CIA’s “Team B” to review Strategic Intelligence Estimates in 1976, and as Director of East European and Soviet Affairs in President Ronald Regan’s National Security Council from 1981-1982. Professor Pipes’s books include Formation of the Soviet Union : Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923 (Russian Research Center Studies) (1954, 1964, 1998), Struve : Liberal On The Left, 1870-1905 (Russian Research Center Studies), 2 vols. (1970, 1980), Russia under the Old Regime (Penguin History1974), The Russian Revolution (Vintage 1990), Russia under the Bolshevik Regime (Vintage 1994), Property and Freedom(Vintage 1999), Communism: A History (Modern Library 2001), Vixi: TheMemoirs of a Non-Belonger (Yale University Press 2003), and Conservatism and its Critics (Yale University Press 2006). Professor Pipes was the 2007 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

2010
Professor Carol M. Rose is the Ashby Lohse Chair in Water and Natural Resources at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona, Professor Rose was the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization at Yale University Law School. She has authored numerous articles and several books, including Perspectives on Property Law (Aspen 2d ed. 1995) (3d ed. 2002) (co-author, with Bruce Ackerman & Robert Ellickson) and Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory, and Rhetoric of Ownership (Westview Press 1994).