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Property
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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Brothers Literally Split Inherited Home In Half
Two brothers in a small Turkish village came up with an unorthodox solution to a dispute over how to divide a 150-square-meter house they inherited from their father. Each brother…
PropertyProf Blog
Book Announcement: Landmark Cases in Property Law
Landmark Cases in Property Law Edited by Simon Douglas, Robin Hickey and Emma Waring This book explores the development of basic principles of property law in leading cases. Each paper considers…
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Gold on the Interaction of Legal and Social Norms
Richard Gold (McGill) has posted Pluralist Property: The Interaction of Legal and Social Norms on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Justice Holmes long ago recognized the conventional nature of property. What he…
PropertyProf Blog
Property Owners Win Raisin Takings Case
Ilya Somin does the knowledge on Horne v. Department of Agriculture:Horne involves a challenge to the forcible appropriation of large quantities of raisins by the federal government. The forced transfer…
PropertyProf Blog
Kochan on Categories of Land Use Control
Donald Kochan (Chapman) has posted A Framework for Understanding Property Regulation and Land Use Control from a Dynamic Perspective (Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law) on SSRN. Here's the…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Paul Walker’s Estate Sues For Taken Vehicles
The estate of Paul Walker is suing Richard Taylor, alleging that he took some of the actor’s vehicles shortly after his death. Taylor was an acquaintance of the late actor…
PropertyProf Blog
The Oral Argument Podcast Does Property
University of Georgia Professors Joe Miller and Christian Turner put together a very cool law-themed podcast called "Oral Argument." Two recent episodes feature property professors talking about their work (and…
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Top SSRN Downloads
In honor of the beginning of the month, here are the most downloaded property articles on SSRN over the last 60 days. 1. [167 downloads] The Validity of Restraints on Alienation…
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Saito on Whiteness as Property in the American Settler Colonial Project
Natsu Saito (Georgia State) has posted Race and Decolonization: Whiteness as Property in the American Settler Colonial Project (Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Challenges…
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Deakin et al. on Capitalism, Property, and the Constitutive Role of Law
Simon Deakin (Cambridge), David Gindis (Hertfordshire), Geoffrey Hodgson (Hertfordshire), Huang Kainan (Shandong), & Katharina Pistor (Columbia) have posted Legal Institutionalism: Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law on SSRN. Here's…