Jim Phillips: Property Rights and the Public Interest

Abstract

Join student editor, Emily Huang, as she sits down with Professor Jim Phillips to discuss his recent paper in the Dalhousie Law Journal titled “Property Rights and the Public Interest: Why Annapolis Group v Halifax Regional Municipality is wrongly decided.” Professor Phillips is a Professor of Law, History and Criminology at the University of Toronto, and Editor-in-Chief of the Osgood Society for Canadian Legal History. The discussion opens with the Annapolis case and the history of Canadian expropriation law