Topic
Property
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PropertyProf Blog
Van Erp on the Fuzzy Boundary Between Contract and Property Law
Sjef Van Erp (University of Maastricht) has posted Contract and Property Law: Distinct, but not Separate on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Contract and property law are traditionally seen as rather distinct…
PropertyProf Blog
Property is Power, or How to Claim a Country (Estate)
By propertyprof
Adam Clulow, writing for The Atlantic, highlights the wonderfully weird criminal case against Lamont Maurice Butler. Butler was recently charged with conspiracy to commit burglary, burglary, and attempted theft for…
PropertyProf Blog
Tomlins on Property in Wild Animals
By propertyprof
Christopher Tomlins (Irvine) has posted Animals Accurs’d: Ferae Naturae and the Law of Property in Nineteenth-Century North America (Toronto Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This essay comments on the…
The Faculty Lounge
Rails to Trials to the Supreme Court
I'm excited to see that the Supreme Court granted cert in Brandt v. United States, 710 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2013). More applied legal history in property law.... Among the…
The Faculty Lounge
Conference on Critical Perspectives on Trusts and Estates
Now that I'm back from Oklahoma City University's conference, "trusts and estates meets gender, race, and class," I wanted to talk a little bit about it. Carla Spivack organized it…
PropertyProf Blog
Pagano on Grassroots City Building
By propertyprof
Celeste Pagano (Florida Coastal) has posted DIY Urbanism: Property and Process in Grassroots City Building (Marquette Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:In recent years, a range of grassroots interventions…
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UMKC Seeking Chair in Property Law
By propertyprof
Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chairin Law, the Constitution and SocietyUniversity of Missouri - Kansas CitySchool of Law The University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law is seeking nominations and…
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Somin on the Recent Takings Clause Cases
By propertyprof
Ilya Somin (George Mason) has posted Two Steps Forward for the 'Poor Relation' of Constitutional Law: Koontz, Arkansas Game & Fish, and the Future of the Takings Clause (Cato Supreme…
PropertyProf Blog
Dorfman on Private Ownership and the Standing to Say So
By propertyprof
Avihay Dorfman (Tel Aviv) has posted Private Ownership and the Standing to Say So (Toronto Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Property theory is an ongoing discourse attempting to articulate…
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Boyack on Freedom of Contract and the Endangered Right to Transfer
By propertyprof
Andrea Boyack (Washburn) has posted Freedom of Contract and the Endangered Right to Transfer on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Private community restrictions on property transfer deserve closer scrutiny by the courts…