Gideon Kanner, Professor of Law Emeritus at the Loyola Law
School in Los Angeles, holds degrees in engineering (B.M.E., The
Cooper Union, 1954) and law (U.S.C, 1961). He is Editor of Just
Compensation, a monthly periodical on the law of eminent domain,
and has been active as a practicing appellate lawyer in the field
of eminent domain and inverse condemnation for 40 years. He is
past president of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
Prof. Kanner served on the Advisory Committee on the Uniform Eminent
Domain Code and has been a consultant on eminent domain to the
California Law Revision Commission for over 30 years. He acted
as consultant to the Japanese Construction Ministry in connection
with that country’s reform of its expropriation law. He was
also co-organizer of and presenter at the International Colloquium
on Comparative Expropriation Law, held at Oxford University in
1990, and a recipient of a British Academy scholarship in that
connection.
Prof. Kanner is a frequent author in the law journals and a lecturer
at CLE programs. For the past twenty years he has co-chaired three
ALI-ABA programs (on eminent domain, inverse condemnation and
land-use), and has acted as chairman and speaker at the annual
Planning, Zoning and Eminent Domain program of the Center for
American and International Law. He is the recipient of the ALI-ABA
Harrison Tweed award for outstanding merit in continuing legal
education. He also received the Shattuck prize of the American
Institute of Real Estate Appraisers (now the Appraisal Institute)
for outstanding contribution to appraisal literature. In 2004,
the William & Mary College School of Law established an annual
award for best writing on property rights, the Brigham-Kanner
Award, named after Prof. Kanner along with Toby Prince Brigham,
a distinguished Florida lawyer.
Prof Kanner was counsel for property owners in a number of precedent-setting
eminent domain cases before the California Supreme Court, and
has appeared as counsel for parties and amici curiae in a half-dozen
taking cases in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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