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Property Works in Progress

Held at Boston University School of Law

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Property Works in Progress

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“Property Works in Progress” brings together leading property scholars who are invited to present and discuss to discuss papers on a variety of topics, including property theory, land use, takings, the history of property law and intellectual property. It features seven panels devoted to the discussion of advanced “works in progress” and two roundtables on “early-stage” ideas.

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BU School of Law
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Agenda

Friday, November 8

8:00 – 8:45 am – Breakfast                                                                  

8:45 – 9:00 am – Introductions                                                              

9:00 – 10:30 am – Works in Progress Session One                         

Moderator: Anna di Robilant

Panelists:

  • John Lovett, Recreation on Inland Water – Public Rights and Private Interests on Rivers and Lakes
  • Ezra Rosser, Progress and the Taking of Indigenous Land
  • Xiaoqian Hu, Public Private Property

10:30 – 10:45 am – Break                                                                   

10:45 – 11:45 am – Works in Progress Session Two                      

Moderator:  Ben Barros

Panelists:

  • Larissa Katz, The Property/License Interface
  • Sarah Schindler, Progressive Property and Animal Law: Starting the Conversation

11:45 am – 12:00 pm – Break                                                          

12:00– 1:00 pm – Early Stage Roundtables (sessions running concurrently) 

Session A                                                                                                          

Moderator: Rashmi Dyal-Chand

Panelists:

  • Ela Leshem, Flag Desecration: Harm to Property or Person? 
  • David Dana & Nadav Shoked

Session B                                                                                                          

Moderator:   Anna di Robilant

Panelists:

  • Lee Fennell & Tim Mulvaney, The Exactions Illusion: Sheetz’s Missing Dissent
  • John Infranca, Single-family Zoning and the Police Power: A Legal and Intellectual History

1:00 – 2:15 pm – Lunch                                                                         

2:15 – 3:15 pm – Works in Progress Session Three                       

Moderator:  Nestor Davidson

Panelists:

  • Randall Johnson, What is the Distribution of National Historical Parks?
  • Katrina Wyman, Collaborative Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of Army Corps Coastal Protection Projects 

3:15 – 3:30 pm – Break 

3:30 – 5:00 pm  – Works in Progress Session Four

Moderator:  Laura Underkuffler

Panelists:

  • Debbie Becher, A Fractured Nation
  • Michael Pollack, Sidewalk Government: The Legal Future of America’s Most Overlooked Resource
  • Lisa Alexander, Long-Term Tenants and Property Theory

6:30 pm – Conference Dinner

Saturday, November 9

8:15 – 8:45 am – Breakfast                                                                                 

8:45 – 10:15 am – Works in Progress Session Five                        

Moderator:  Rashmi Dyal-Chand

Panelists:

  • Nestor Davidson & Tim Mulvaney, Per Se Non-Takings
  • Adam MacLeod, A Common-Law Baseline for Regulatory Takings
  • Bernadette Atuahene,

10:15 – 10:30 am – Break                                                                                 

10:30 – 11:30 am – Works in Progress Session Six                        

Moderator:  Henry Smith

Panelists:

  • Emily Stolzenberg, Things of Value
  • Nicole Summers, Settlements of Adhesion

11:30 – 11:45 am – Break                                                                   

11:45 am – 12:45 pm – Works in Progress Session Seven         

Moderator:  Jamila Jefferson-Jones

Panelists:

  • Vanessa Casado Perez & Yael Lifshitz, Data Anticommons
  • Adam Mossoff, Injunctions for Patent Infringement

12:45 – 2:00 pm – Lunch                                                                                                                        

2:00 – 3:30 pm – Early Stage Roundtables (running concurrently)

Session A

Moderator: Nestor Davidson

Panelists:

  • Nadiyah Humber, Renting Reimagined: The Case for a National Corporate Landlord-Tenant Law
  • Molly Brady, The Private Law Origins of "Single-Family" Zoning
  • Melvin Kelly, The Antitrust Thrust of Fair Housing: Reconstructing Federal Links in the Local Chain of Change

Session B

Moderator: Rashmi Dyal-Chand

  • Anna di Robilant, The Property Imagination of the Haitian Revolution: Human Emancipation and Atlantic Capitalism.
  • Joseph Singer, Living Property
  • Claire Priest & Matteo Taussig-Rubbo, Indigenous Property in Madre de Dios, Peru

3:30 – 3:45 pm – Break                                                             

3:45 – 4:45 pm – Works in Progress Session Eight      

Moderator: Brian Lee

Panelists:

  • Chris Serkin, Book on the role of “change” in property law
  • Seth Davis, The Bundle of Rights Conception of Sovereignty

Property Works in Progress

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