This is a rare and unique opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss legal issues with our Chinese counterparts since our property rights concepts and practice are significantly different in many respects.
Rockville, MD (PRWEB) August 30, 2011
The Owners' Counsel of America is pleased to announce that James L. Thompson, a bright and dynamic trial lawyer from Maryland, will take part in the Eighth Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, sponsored by William & Mary Law School, in Beijing, China, October 14-15, 2011. The Conference began in 2004 at the William & Mary Law School and is renowned for its outstanding panel discussions assembling members of the bench, bar, and academia. Each year, the Conference awards the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize to an individual whose work has advanced the cause of property rights and contributed to the overall awareness of the important role property rights occupy in the broader scheme of individual liberty. The 2011 Property Rights Prize will be awarded to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Justice O'Connor served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1981 to 2006 and was the first female jurist nominated to the country’s highest court. She authored the widely cited dissenting opinion in Kelo v. City of New London (2005) which has been hailed as a pivotal opinion in American property law jurisprudence. William & Mary Law School Dean Davison M. Douglas applauded O'Connor's 1981 nomination as the Court's first female justice as "among the momentous events in American history," adding that she was "one of the Court's most influential justices of the past half century."
In its inaugural year abroad, the 2011 Conference will bring together legal scholars, jurists and practitioners from the United States and China for a comparative review of the evolution of property rights globally. Mr. Thompson will participate in a panel entitled “How Practitioners Shape the Law,” which will explore the important role both lawyers and the judiciary play in influencing, shaping, and changing property law. “This is a rare and unique opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss legal issues with our Chinese counterparts since our property rights concepts and practice are significantly different in many respects,” he explained.
Mr. Thompson is a Principal with Miller, Miller & Canby, one of the oldest and most respected law firms in Montgomery County, Maryland located 12 miles north of Washington, D.C. He is also the Maryland member of the Owners' Counsel of America, a national network of condemnation and property rights attorneys who focus their practice upon the representation of property owners facing eminent domain.
A graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia Law School, Mr. Thompson served as a Marine Judge Advocate prior to joining Miller, Miller & Canby. He has led the firm’s litigation department for over 25 years and has taught trial advocacy. Mr. Thompson lectures regularly at national eminent domain litigation courses conducted by the American Law Institute-American Bar Association as well as at CLE seminars held for lawyers, appraisers and right-of-way agents in the State Maryland. In addition, he has authored a variety of articles involving eminent domain and has worked with the Maryland legislature to reform eminent domain laws and protect the rights of property owners. Mr. Thompson's achievements have been recognized by the American College of Trial Lawyers, to which he was elected as a fellow in 1986, and by the Daily Record which presented him with the Leadership in Law Award in 2006. He has also been privileged to serve as President of the Maryland State Bar Association in 2000, a voluntary lawyers association serving over 20,000 lawyers.
About Owners' Counsel of America:
The Owners’ Counsel of America, http://www.ownerscounsel.com, is a nationwide network of experienced eminent domain attorneys dedicated to protecting the rights of private property owners large and small, locally and nationally, and to advancing the cause of property rights. The lawyers affiliated with Owners’ Counsel are in private practice in nearly every state and represent property owners against federal, state, and local governments, utilities, redevelopment authorities and other entities that may be armed with eminent domain power.
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