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Artwork by Mery Godigna Collet

Image courtesy of Mery Godigna Collet

Schedule

All events will be held in the Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306), UT School of Law, unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Setting the Stage


Welcome: Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin

Introduction: Catherine Boone, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
4:15 pm – 5:45 pm

Keynote Panel


Moderator: Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:

  • Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
    “Property and the History of Human Rights”
  • Carol Rose, Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emerita, Yale Law School and Lohse Professor of Water and Natural Resources, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law
    “On Theories of Property”
  • David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School
    “On Property Rights and Development”
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Reception & Art Exhibition


In attendance: artist Mery Godigna Collet, who provided the artwork for this website

Registration required

Location: Shared suite of the Rapoport Center, Energy Center, and Center for Women in Law (TNH 3.119), UT School of Law

Friday, March 2, 2012

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast


Location: Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300), UT School of Law
9:00 am – 10:45 am

The Allocative Character of Property: Dispossession and Redistribution


Chair: Melinda Taylor, Senior Lecturer and Executive Director of the Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law, The University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:

  • Lungisile Ntsebeza, Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
    “Rural Development in South Africa: Possibilities and Limits Posed by the Protection of Property Rights in South Africa’s Constitution”
  • Sebastian Elias, Professor of Law, Universidad de San Andrés
    “Against Regressive Redistribution: The Case of Argentina as the Basis for a Qualified Defense of the Judicial Protection of Property Rights”
  • Mekonnen Firew Ayano, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School
    “Constitutional Property Rights in Ethiopia: The Old and New ‘State Ownership’ of Land”

Discussant: Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin
10:45 am – 11:00 am

Coffee Break


Location: Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300), UT School of Law
11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Private Titles and Titling: Which rights? Whose rights?


Chair: Gerald Torres, Professor and Bryant Smith Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:

  • Ambreena Manji, Director, British Institute in Eastern Africa
    “The Grabbed State: Lawyers, Politics and Public Land in Kenya”
  • Faustin Maganga, Associate Professor, University of Dar es Salaam
    “Formalization of Land Rights in Tanzania: The Implications for Livelihoods, Equity and Conflict Management”
  • Solomon Benjamin, Professor, Manipal University and Associate Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies
    “Occupancy Urbanism’s Radicalization of Property in Land and Economy”
  • Priya Gupta, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Women, Law and Social Change, Jindal Global University
    “The Dilemmas of a Human Right to Property, Adverse Possession, and Slum Clearance in Delhi”

Discussant: Catherine Boone, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch


Registration required

Location: Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300), UT School of Law
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Changing Conceptions of Property


Chair: Nadav Shoked, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:

  • Dennis Davis, Judge, High Court of Cape Town
    “Property Transformation and the Law: The South African Case”
  • Jorge Contesse, Professor and Director of the Center for Human Rights, Universidad Diego Portales and Visiting Resource Professor, University of Texas at Austin
    “Chile and its Property Constitution” (Co-authored by Alberto Coddou)
  • Jorge Esquirol, Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law
    “Aligning Property Law with Social Policy in Latin America”

Discussant: Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Coffee break


Location: Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300), UT School of Law
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Concluding Reflections and Discussion Panel


Moderator: Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:

  • Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  • Carol Rose, Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emerita, Yale Law School and Lohse Professor of Water and Natural Resources, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law
  • David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School