Kratovil Conference on Real Estate Law & Practice

Friday, November 20, 2009
1:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m ( view conference agenda )
Reception to follow.
Room 1200 - The John Marshall Law School

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.

Register to Attend
(registration is required)

Registration Fee: $100
CLE Credit Hours: 4

The conference will feature the following academic scholars:

• Lincoln L. Davies,
  Assistant Professor of Law
  University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
• Sara R. Gosman,
  Lecturer
  University of Michigan Law School
  and Attorney, National Wildlife Federation
• 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

Comments and Perspectives will be presented by:

• Moderator:
  Virginia Harding, JD, Gould & Ratner LLP
• 
  Barbara A. Adams, JD, Holland & Knight LLP
• William Anaya, JD, Arnstein & Lehr LLP
• Wesley Jarrell, PhD, Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Executive Director, Environmental Change Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• 
  Alan Kravets, JD, Executive Director, Sheldon Good & Company
• Erin O'Connell-Diaz, JD, Commissioner, Illinois Commerce Commission
• Ronald R. Pollina, PhD, President, Pollina Corporate Real Estate, Inc.
• David Ullrich, JD, Executive Director, The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative

Supporters:

In conjunction with The John Marshall Law Review, the law school will preserve scholarship and distribute beyond the conference audience by publishing articles from the conference in a symposium issue on real estate law so as to initiate a prolonged discussion of the implications of water shortage in non-arid regions so solutions can be considered before water shortage becomes a crisis.