Topic

Property

479 published works

PropertyProf Blog December 20, 2013
Last Minute Gifts for the Property Scholar in Your Life
By Steve Clowney
1. I Own Blackacre bumper sticker:2. Justice Thomas Kelo Mug:3. I Love Propert Law T-shirt
Land Use Prof Blog December 18, 2013
Bray on Progressive Property and Low-Income Housing
By Land Use Prof
Zachary Bray (University of Houston) has posted The New Progressive Property and the Low-Income Housing Conflict, BYU Law Review, Volume 2012, Issue 4, p. 1109 (2012). The abstract:The foundation of…
PropertyProf Blog December 12, 2013
Fitzpatrick & McWilliam on the Complexities of Simple Legal Rules
By Steve Clowney
Daniel Fitzpatrick (Australian National University) and Andrew McWilliam (ANU) have posted Bright-Line Fever: Simple Legal Rules and Complex Property Customs Among the Fataluku of East Timor (Law and Society Review)…
PropertyProf Blog December 5, 2013
Top SSRN Downloads
By Steve Clowney
In honor of the beginning of the month here are the most downloaded property papers on SSRN over the last sixty days: 1. [597 downloads] The Paper Chase: Securitization, Foreclosure, and…
PropertyProf Blog December 4, 2013
Brady on Informal City Planning in Early America
By Steve Clowney
Maureen Brady (Yale Ph.D. student) has posted Community Knowledge and Its Collapse: History of an Early American Property Regime on SSRN. Here's the abstract:During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, American…
PropertyProf Blog November 27, 2013
Babie on the Spatial Dimension of Property
By Steve Clowney
Paul Babie (Adelaide) has posted The Spatial: A Forgotten Dimension of Property (San Diego Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This article employs urban sociologist and planning theorist Edward W…
PropertyProf Blog November 22, 2013
Book Announcement: Property and Sovereignty
By Steve Clowney
Jim Simth (Georgia) has edited a new book, Property and Sovereignty: Legal and Cultural Perspectives. The book features chapters from Al Brophy, Larissa Katz, and Daniel Fitzpatrick, among others. Here's the publisher's blurb: This…
The Faculty Lounge November 21, 2013
Property and Sovereignty
I'm pleased to announce that Jim Simth's new book, Property and Sovereignty: Legal and Cultural Perspectives is about to appear from Ashgate in their Law, Property, and Society series. Cribbing…
PropertyProf Blog November 12, 2013
Maus on Property in Shakespeare
By Steve Clowney
Katharine Maus (UVa - English) has recently published Being and Having in Shakespeare (Oxford University Press), a concise consideration of property and power in a few of the bard's plays. …
PropertyProf Blog November 11, 2013
Fennell on Forced Ownership
By Steve Clowney
Lee Fennell (Chicago) has posted Forcings on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Eminent domain receives enormous amounts of scholarly and popular attention, and for good reason — it is a powerful form…