Water as a Resource: Impact on Real Estate Ownership, Development and Land Use Policy

The Burnham Plan Centennial Kratovil Conference on Real Estate Law & Practice will explore the relationship between water scarcity and ownership of real estate in regions other than the American West.

Special attention will be given to the relationship between water shortages and the development use and ownership of real estate. Academics will present scholarship on issues such as the Great Lakes Compact, impact fees and land use solution to allocating scarce water, hydrological considerations (such as watershed location) in the allocation of water, smart growth and economic solutions to water allocation.

The conference will feature a practitioner panel of industry professionals. Academic speakers include:

Adell L. Amos, Assistant Professor and Director Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center at Oregon Law
 
Lincoln L. Davies, Assistant Professor of Law University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
 
Julian C. Juergensmeyer, Professor of Law and Ben F. Johnson Jr., Chair in Law Georgia State University Law
 
Praveen Kumar, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Registration is requried.  For more detail click here.