Professor Shelley Saxer Participates in "Kelo Reargued: Has 20 Years of Controversy Changed the Eminent Domain Debate?" -- William and Mary Law School

Professor Shelley Ross Saxer served as a moot justice for "Kelo Reargued: Has 20 Years of Controversy Changed the Eminent Domain Debate?" at William & Mary Law School on October 23. The event was a re-moot of the Supreme Court arguments in the case Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005). 

From William & Mary Law School: 

In one of the Supreme Court’s most controversial decisions, Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), a bare majority of the Court allowed the government to deprive a property owner of her home merely because she was not maximizing its economic utility. The Court approved the taking of Susette Kelo’s “little pink house” by eminent domain and transferring it to another private party, on the theory that the public may benefit.

The case generated a firestorm, exposing the public to what had been an obscure government power: eminent domain, the sovereign power to take private property for public use upon the payment of just compensation. In the two decades since Kelo burned into public consciousness, it has resulted in nationwide changes in the law, a vast body of scholarly and judicial criticism, and books and movies.

Join us as Ms. Kelo’s Supreme Court advocates from the Institute for Justice return to present her case in a re-moot of the Supreme Court arguments sponsored by the William and Mary Law School Real Estate Law Society, to ask this essential question: has time provided a new perspective on eminent domain and property rights?