From the Property Rights Alliance:

PRA Release of the 2007 International Property Rights Index (IPRI)
9:00 am - 10:30 am on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 (Breakfast to be served)
National Press Club -- 13th Floor

Followed by a discussion by a panel of experts on what the Index means for private property rights in the 110th Congress and around the globe
WITH
Chris Israel: United States Coordinator for International Intellectual Property Enforcement
Tim Kane, PhD: Director, Center for International Trade and Economics (CITE) and co-author of the annual Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Economic Freedom Index
Syed Kamall MEP: Member of European Parliament and a Member of the Committee on International Trade, United Kingdom

PITCH

The 2007 International Property Rights Index (IPRI) is the first international comparative study that measures the significance of both physical and intellectual property rights and their protection for economic well-being. With this first edition, Property Rights Alliance has initiated a new series of IPRI studies for the Hernando de Soto Fellowship Program that will contribute to developing accurate and comprehensive measures regarding property rights (PR) on an international scale. The International Property Rights Index will provide the public, researchers and policymakers, from across the globe, with a tool for comparative analysis and future research on global property rights. In order to incorporate and grasp the important aspects related to property rights protection, the Index focuses on three areas: Legal and Political Environment (LP), Physical Property Rights (PPR), and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The current study analyzes data for seventy countries around the globe, representing ninety-five percent of world GDP. Of great importance, the 2007 gauge incorporates data of PR protection from various sources, often directly obtained from expert surveys within the evaluated countries.