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.
Location
BU School of Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
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