Takings Conference, Friday, September 19

On Friday, September 19, 2014, the 17th Annual Conference on Litigating Takings Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulations will be held at UC Davis School of Law in Davis, California. The event is sponsored by Vermont Law School, UC Davis School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and many others.   The speakers include numerous experts from academia as well attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Congressional Research Service, the California Attorney General’s Office, the New York State Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery, the California Coastal Commission, the American Securitization Forum, as well as private and public interest practice.
The conference will feature a keynote “Appreciation of Joe Sax,” presented by Holly Doremus, who has the honor of sitting in Joe’s former seat, the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation at UC Berkeley. Conference panels will address the long-term doctrinal and practical implications of Koontz, the latest permutations on the parcel as a whole issue, the controversial idea of “taking” underwater mortgages, Brandt and the rails to trails program, takings and water management, and the takings implications of adapting to sea level rise caused by climate change. Details are available here

Space is still available at the conference (go here to register). In addition, copies of the conference papers and audio recordings will be available after the conference. Articles based on conference papers will be published in an upcoming edition of the Vermont Law Review