The Most Interesting Profs in the World: KCON XI Begins Today

Today marks the beginning of the Eleventh International Conference on Contracts, and I’m pleased to be in attendance. KCON XI is being held at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, and many of us are staying at the conference hotel, The Menger, which I have now learned is “the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi,” having been established in 1859.  The setting here in the Alamo City seems fitting for what, under any reasonable-person standard, is a gathering of the Most Interesting Profs in the World^TM, one member of whom is pictured at the left.

Conference highlights are scheduled to include the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Peter Linzer of the University of Houston Law Center.  Professor Linzer is an appropriate recipient of this year’s award, having had a distinguished career that includes work with E. Allan Farnsworth on the Restatement (Second) of Contracts and a role as a significant participant in the decade-plus history of this conference.

A difficulty with any event like this one is the inability to attend all of the concurrently scheduled panels. Both concurrent panels kicking things off look excellent, with one being Professorial Professions: Creating a Student-centered Contracts Classroom, which will be moderated by Hazel Beh of the University of Hawai’i, and is set to include Charles Calleros (Arizona State University), our esteemed blog editor Myanna Dellinger (University of South Dakota), my colleague Frank Snyder (Texas A&M University), and Deborah Post (Touro Law Center).

I will be at the other (and equally excellent panel) during that first session, and that panel turns out to be an easy choice for me as I (Mark Burge – Texas A&M University) will be the moderator. The session is titled What You Thought You Knew About Remedies in Sales Transactions May Not Be True: Highlights in Article 2 Remedies and Contracting for Limitations, and the UCC goodness therein will be delivered by Sid DeLong (Seattle University), Nancy Kim (California Western), conference organizer Colin Marks (St. Mary’s University), and Jennifer Martin (St. Thomas University – Florida).  I look forward to spending the morning with such a wonderful group of colleagues.

If you are attending KCON and have any comments, observations, or non-incriminating photos that you would like to share, drop me an e-mail at the bot-decoded version of the following address: markburge “at” law “dot” tamu “dot” edu.