 Gideon Kanner is professor of law emeritus at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.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.