Tulane Property Roundtable 2015
Event Description
The Tulane Property Roundtable brings together property scholars from around the country to discuss and debate important property issues pertaining to the regulation of private and public property rights. The roundtable showcases the works-in-progress of the participating scholars and encourages lively debate regarding the drafts. This year, the roundtable is bringing in a group of scholars of varying seniority—from Chaired Professors to Assistant Professors—and varying focuses within property law, including progressive property, law and economics, environmental law, and Indian law.
About The Speakers
8:55 am to 9:00 am
Welcome Remarks from David D. Meyer, Dean and Mitchell Franklin Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School
9:00 am to 10:30 am
Panel 1: Maximizing Social Benefits Through Property Law
Private Ownership and Human Flourishing: A Critical Review
By Eric T. Freyfogle, Swanlund Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Illinois
Emulsified Property
By Jessica A. Shoemaker, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law
10:45 am to 12:15 pm
Panel 2: Theorizing Property Law
Of Property and Information
By Abraham Bell, Professor of Law at the Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law and University of San Diego School of Law (with Parchomovsky)
Forms versus Norms
By Meredith M. Render, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Panel 3: Rethinking Property Doctrines
Fee Simple Obsolete
By Lee Anne Fennell, Max Pamm Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School
Reframing Ameliorative Waste
By Sally Brown Richardson, Assistant Professor of Law and Gordon Gamm Faculty Scholar at Tulane University Law School
3:15 pm to 4:45 pm
Panel 4: Government Regulation of Property
Legislative Exactions and Progressive Property
By Timothy M. Mulvaney, Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law
A Right to be Regulated
By Michael Pappas, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
