The Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Prize is awarded each Fall by the William & Mary Law School, at the Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Conference.
The Conference and Prize were proposed in 2003 by Joseph T. Waldo, a graduate of the Marshall–Wythe School of Law with the support of the then Dean of the Law School, W. Taylor Reveley III, who would later become president of the college.
[1] The Conference and Prize are named after Toby Prince Brigham and Gideon Kanner for "their contributions to private property rights, their efforts to advance the constitutional protection of property, and their accomplishments in preserving the important role that private property plays in protecting individual and civil rights.
The Brigham–Kanner Prize is awarded annually during the Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Conference.
Since 2004, the Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Prize has been awarded to a scholar, practitioner or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of property rights and contributes to the overall awareness of the role property rights occupy in the broader scheme of individual liberty.