Professor James E. Krier, Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School, was awarded the 2012 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize at the ninth annual conference. His teaching has included courses on property, trusts and estates, behavioral law and economics, and pollution policy. His research interests are primarily in the fields of property and law and economics, and he is the author or co-author of several books, including Environmental Law and Policy (Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1978) (with R.B. Stewart), Pollution and Policy (University of California Press 1977) (with E. Ursin), and Property (Aspen Publishing 9th ed. 2018). His most recent articles have been published in Harvard Law Review, Supreme Court Economic Review, UCLA Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and William & Mary Law Review. A professor of law at UCLA and Stanford before joining the Michigan Law faculty in 1983, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard University Law School, Cardozo School of Law, and the University of Alabama School of Law.
