During the 2011 Conference, which was the Eighth Annual Brigham Kanner Property Rights Conference, Retired United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor received the Brigham Kanner Prize.
The 2011 Conference featured lectures and panel discussions by the leading property rights scholars and practitioners from China and the United States.
[5] The Thirteenth Annual Conference, held in 2016, was hosted by the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands and was presented in cooperation with the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School.
The recipient of the year's Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize was Hernando de Soto, Prize-winning economist and author of The Mystery of Capital and The Other Path.
Mr. Alexander is recognized as one of the leading scholars in the field of property law, whose works include Commodity and Propriety which won the American Publishers Association 1997 Book of the Year in Law award, Property and Human Flourishing, and The Global Debate Over Constitutional Property: Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence.