Presentation of the

Owners Counsel of America

Crystal Eagle to

David L. Callies

avid L. Callies is the Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law at the University of Hawaiis
William S. Richardson School of Law where teaches land use, state and local government,
and real property law. Prior to coming to Hawaii he practiced local government and land use
law with the firm of Ross & Hardies of Chicago during which time he also taught as an adjunct
professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukees School of Architecture and Urban
Planning, and served as an Assistant States Attorney. He is a graduate of DePauw University,
the University of Michigan Law School (J.D.), and the University of Nottingham (LL.M.), and
a past foreign fellow and present life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. His work
has been published in both Japanese and Chinese.
He is past chair of the Real Property and Financial Services Section of the Hawaii State Bar
Association; past chair of the American Bar Association Section of State and Local Government
Law and the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006; past chair, section of state and
local government law, the American Association of Law Schools; past chair, Academics Forum,
and member of Council, Asia Pacific Forum, of the International Bar Association; a member of
the American Law Institute (ALI); a Member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute
of Certified Planners (FAICP), a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers
(ACREL) and co-editor of the annual Land Use and Environmental Law Review (with Dan
Tarlock). He is also a board member of the Social Science Association of Honolulu.

The Crystal Eagle

Annually, Owners Counsel identifies an individual who has made a
substantial contribution toward protecting the civil right of private property
ownership and presents that individual with the Crystal Eagle Award. Owners
Counsel is honored to recognize David Callies with the Crystal Eagle for his
lifetime of work concerning property rights, land use regulation, and eminent
domain. In addition to his researching, thinking and writing about property and
takings law, we are grateful to Professor Callies for educating and mentoring
several generations of lawyers, and impressing upon them the essential
relationship between property rights and individual liberties.
Past recipients of the Crystal Eagle include legal scholars (Professors James Ely (Vanderbilt)
and Gideon Kanner (Loyola Los Angeles)); Supreme Court advocates (Michael Berger);
public interest attorneys (Dana Berliner (Institute for Justice) and James Burling (Pacific Legal
Foundation)); journalists (Dean Starkman, Dennis Hartig, Norman Oder, and Hannity & Colmes);
pathfinding eminent domain lawyers (Toby Brigham); and property owners (Coy Koontz, Jr.,
who fought for his familys property rights for two decades, culminating in a landmark U.S.
Supreme Court decision).

Owners Counsel of America is an invitation-only network of the nations most

experienced property rights and eminent domain lawyers. Limited to one lawyer per state,
Owners Counsel members have joined together to further the cause of liberty by advancing
the law, and by preserving and defending the constitutional rights of
private property owners. As civil rights lawyers, they understand
that the right to own and use private property is the guardian
of every other right, and the basis of a free society.

Owners Counsel members and their firms have been the attorneys for a party or amicus curiae in
landmark property rights decisions such as Kaiser Aetna v. United States, 444 U.S. 164 (1979);
Agins v. City of Tiburon, 447 U.S. 255 (1980); First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Los
Angeles County, 482 U.S. 304 (1987); Nollan v. Cal. Coastal Commn, 483 U.S. 825 (1987);
Preseault v. Interstate Commerce Commn, 494 U.S. 1 (1990); Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S.
519 (1992); Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992); Dolan v. City of
Tigard, 512 U.S. 374 (1994); City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd., 526 U.S.
687 (1999); Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, 533 U.S. 606 (2001); Tahoe-Sierra Pres. Council, Inc. v.
Tahoe Regl Planning Agency, 535 U.S. 302 (2002); Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc., 544 U.S. 528
(2005); San Remo Hotel, L.P. v. City and County of San Francisco, 545 U.S. 323 (2005); Kelo v.
City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005); Winter v. Natural Resources Def. Council, 555 U.S.
7 (2008); Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Fla. Dept of Envtl Protection, 130 S. Ct. 2592
(2010); Arkansas Game and Fish Commn v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 511 (2012); Koontz v. St.
Johns River Water Mgmt Dist., 133 S. Ct. 2586 (2013); and Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v.
United States, 134 S. Ct. 1257 (2014).

Thursday, March 12, 2015

5:30 6:30 p.m.
Welcome
ROBERT H. THOMAS
Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert
Hawaii Member, Owners Counsel of America
Introduction of Professor Callies
THE HONORABLE SABRINA S. MCKENNA
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii
Presentation of the Crystal Eagle
to
DAVID L. CALLIES
For Decades of Property Law Scholarship
And Advancing Property Rights Around the World:
Its Not Where You Begin,
But Where You Arrive.
Remarks
PROFESSOR DAVID L. CALLIES
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