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The Public Nature of Private Property

              This workshop, to be held at the Georgetown Law on Friday and Saturday, the 14th and 15th of November, will focus on the issue of private vs. public property.  Some of the general questions to be explored include: are there other categories of property to consider beyond the oppositional public vs. private; what are the implications of private housing markets that depend on government regulation and government supported mortgage markets and tax breaks; what about native peoples and artifacts in terms of cultural property; likewise issues in intellectual property?  Are the ideas of private property and of private property rights understandable in the modern environment of highly integrated infrastructure, financial markets, and regulation?  Is there really any such thing as private property and how does the language of private property shape our understanding of the law?  How does the public vs. private property distinction constrain or enable our approach to environmental and land use regulation?  Professor J. Peter Byrne of Georgetown will give a keynote presentation for the workshop.

              The format of the workshop will be presentations of papers for twenty minutes followed by a ten minute questions and answer session.  There will also be ample opportunity for informal discussion among participants.  We encourage presentations of works in progress.  Interaction, the exchange of ideas, and the development of connections are the goals of the workshop.

              In furtherance of that goal, the workshop will address many forms of property including real, personal, intangible, cultural, and intellectual.  Also, assuming ample interest of people presenting papers on this theme, we will produce a volume for a book of the same title... The Public Nature of Private Property for the series on Law, Property, and Society with Ashgate Publishing.

 


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