Hosted by the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment.
The definition of property rights in contexts outside of traditional metes and bounds of land raises a series of interesting issues. In a range of contexts, including access to water, wireless spectrum, and minerals, governments face a question of how to ensure that the resource is used effectively and that adjacent users do not interfere with the rights of one another. In each context, different strategies are used to accomplish these goals and rarely are those strategies compared and contrasted across the specific domains.
In this conference, building on last year’s conference discussing the move towards more dynamic markets in different areas, we will bring together leading experts from the different fields to examine and compare two concepts that have enjoyed different success in these three domains—a “use it or lose it” regime and different judicial or administrative regimes to guard against and address concerns around interference. To reflect on the day’s discussions, the nation’s leading property scholar, Richard Epstein, will offer a keynote address.
Sessions
Welcome
- Phil Weiser
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Overview Panel
- Phil Weiser — Moderator
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - Charles Wilkinson
Distinguished Professor, Moses Lasky Professor of Law, University of Colorado - David Redl
Chief Counsel, Communications and Technology, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce - Bruce Kramer
Of Counsel, McGinnis Lochridge
Panel One: Minerals
- William Boyd — Moderator
Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado - Patty Limerick
Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder - Stanley Dempsey
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Royal Gold - Jack Luellen
Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP - Thomas Roesch
Senior Director, Land, Newmont Mining Corporation
Break
Panel Two: Wireless Spectrum
- Bryan Tramont — Moderator
Managing Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP - Joan Marsh
Vice President Federal Regulatory, AT&T - Pantelis Michalopoulos
Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP - Robert B. Kelly
Partner, Squire Patton Boggs - Rob Alderfer
Vice President, Technology Policy, CableLabs
Break
Panel Three: Water
- Raymond Gifford — Moderator
Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP - Charles Howe
Professor of Economics, University of Colorado - Ramsey L. Kropf
Shareholder, Patrick, Miller, Kropf & Noto, PC - Karin Sheldon
President, Four Echoes Strategies
Keynote
- Richard Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Reception
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Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment