MidYear2004: Property Law

Why, Who, When

Schedule

Fees

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

5:00–8:00 p.m.
Registration

6:00–8:00 p.m.
AALS Reception

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

8:45–9:00 a.m.
Welcome
Joyce Saltalamachia, AALS Deputy Director

Introduction

Keith Aoki, University of Oregon, and Chair, Planning Committee for AALS Conference on Teaching Property Law for the 21^st Century

9:00–10:30 a.m.

Disciplinary Approaches (Economics, Social Justice, Environment, Historical, Social Science, Dispute Resolution)

Adrienne D. Davis, University of North Carolina
Peter S. Menell, University of California at Berkeley
Joan Chalmers Williams, American University
Commentator: Michael A. Heller, Columbia University

10:30–10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break

10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
What’s in the Course?

Susan F. French, University of California at Los Angeles
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, DePaul University
Peter T. Wendel, Pepperdine University
Commentator: Robert C. Ellickson, Yale Law School

12:00–1:45 p.m.
AALS Luncheon
Speaker: Henry T. Greely, Stanford Law School

2:00–3:30 p.m.
Choosing Materials and Methodologies

R. Wilson Freyermuth, University of Missouri-Columbia
Lisa Chiyemi Ikemoto, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
John G. Sprankling, McGeorge School of Law

3:30–3:45 p.m.
Refreshment Break

3:45–5:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions

Request for proposals

Celeste M Hammond, John Marshall Law School
Title: Making Servitudes, Takings and Public Policy More "Real" for First Year Property Students by a video visit to The Sea Ranch, a Planned Community in Northern California

Douglas L. Leslie, University of Virgina
Title: CaseFile Method - An Approach to Teaching Law

Alice M. Noble-Allgire, Southern Illinois University
Title: MacCrate & Beyond: How and Why to Integrate More Skills into the Property Course

Lolita Kay Buckner Inniss, Cleveland State University
Title: Using the Problem Method First Year Property: The Think Group

Jennifer J. Johnson, Lewis and Clark Law School
Title: Teaching First Year Property: The View From an Old Curmudgeon

5:15–7:00 p.m.
AALS Reception

8:30 p.m.
Evening Session on Developing a Scholarly Agenda and
Getting your Scholarship Placed
Moderator: John Copeland Nagle, Notre Dame Law School

Thursday, June 17, 2004

9:00–10:30 a.m.
Inquiries into the Nature of Property

David L. Callies, University of Hawaii
Dorothy Glancy, Santa Clara University
Barton H. Thompson, Jr., Stanford Law School
Rebecca A. Tsosie, Arizona State University

10:30–10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break

10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Nuisance

Rachel Godsil, Seton Hall University
John Copeland Nagle, Notre Dame Law School

Real Estate Transactions

R. Wilson Freyermuth, University of Missouri-Columbia
Georgette C. Poindexter, University of Pennsylvania

12:15–2:00 p.m.
AALS Luncheon

2:00–3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Common Interest Communities

Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell Law School
Paula Ann Franzese, Seton Hall University

Housing

Marc A. Fajer, University of Miami
Peter W. Salsich, Jr., Saint Louis University

3:30–3:45 p.m.
Refreshment Break

3:45–5:00 p.m.

Joint Plenary of Conferences on Environmental Law and Property Comparative Property

Daniel H. Cole, Indiana University, Indianapolis
Louise A. Halper, Washington and Lee University
Madhavi Sunder, University of California, Davis

5:45 p.m.
Lewis and Clark Law School Reception
(Buses board at 5:45 p.m.)

Friday, June 18, 2004

9:00–10:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Religious Land Ownership/Use

Mary L. Clark, American University
Title: Personhood Property, Contested Commodities, and the World Trade Center

Shelley Ross Saxer, Pepperdine University
Title: Religious Land Uses, Emimemt Domain, and RLUIPA

David A. Thomas, Brigham Young University
Title: Free Anti-Religious Expression and Free Religious Exercise in the Public Forum Cases

Cultural Property

Jane Maslow Cohen, The University of Texas
Title: Rights, Wrongs, and that Which is Fraught: the Basic Geometry of Cultural Property Disputes

Sarah K. Harding, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Title: Time, Culture and Property

Susan Scafidi, Southern Methodist University
Title: Cultural Property/Cultural Hierarchy

10:30–10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break

10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Property and Citizenship

Steven J. Eagle, George Mason University
Brant T. Lee, University of Akron
Guadalupe Theresa Luna, Northern Illinois University

12:15–1:45 p.m.

AALS Sponsored Luncheon for Conferences on Environmental Law and Teaching Property Law for the 21^st Century

Speaker: Gerald Torres, The University of Texas

2:00–4:00 p.m.
Joint Plenary of Conferences on Environmental Law and Property
Comparative Takings Issues

Vicki Lynn Been, New York University
Eric T. Freyfogle, University of Illinois
Laura S. Underkuffler, Duke University

Planning Committee for AALS Conference on Teaching Property Law for the 21^st Century

Keith Aoki, University of Oregon, Chair
June Rose Carbone, Santa Clara University
Marc R. Poirier, Seton Hall University
Wendell E. Pritchett, University of Pennsylvania
Dale A. Whitman, University of Missouri-Columbia

Mid-Year Meeting 2004