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PropertyProf Blog
Man Buys Island, Controls Lives of Thousands
By propertyprof
The New York Times has an intriguing article about Larry Ellison's purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai. The article demonstrates, very poignantly, the relationship between property ownership and power:Lanai’s…
Land Use Prof Blog
Flammable Cities
Greg Bankoff (History--University of Hull), Ewe Lubken (Rachel Carson Center, Munich), and Jordan Sand (History--Georgetown) have published Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World (U. Wisconsin…
PropertyProf Blog
New Casebook Announcement
By propertyprof
Peter Gerhart, from Case Western Reserve, has put out a new first-year Property book. It's entitled Property: Our Social Institution. According to the press release, "The book takes a functional…
PropertyProf Blog
Stern on the Meaning of Property & the U.S. Constitution
By propertyprof
James Stern (Virginia) has posted Property's Constitution (Cal Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Long-standing disagreements over the meaning of property as a matter of legal theory present a…
PropertyProf Blog
Allain & Bales on the Definition of Slavery
By propertyprof
Jean Allian (Queen's Law School - Belfast) and Kevin Bales (Roehampton - London) have posted Slavery and Its Definition (Global Dialogue) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:The very term ‘slavery’ and…
PropertyProf Blog
Singer on The Rule of Reason in Property Law
By propertyprof
Joseph Singer (Harvard) has posted The Rule of Reason in Property Law on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Property rights cannot work if they are not clear, and scholars generally assume that…
Land Use Prof Blog
Strahilevitz on Absolute and Relative Preferences in Property Law
Lior Strahilevitz (Chicago) has posted Absolute Preferences and Relative Preferences in Property Law, 160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2012). The abstract:This article suggests that the population is roughly divided…
Land Use Prof Blog
Buffalo = A Haven for Zombies
A new article from the Journal of Urban Affairs has taught me a new term : Zombie Properties. Pretty much just a creepy way to say vacant property. I am…
PropertyProf Blog
Recent SSRN Downloads
By propertyprof
In honor of the beginning of the month, here are the most downloaded property articles on SSRN over the last 60 days: 1. [283 downloads] Coastal Land Loss and the Mitigation-Adaptation…
PropertyProf Blog
July in Vienna
By propertyprof
I just returned from spending July in Vienna, teaching a course on the Financial Crisis in the United States and Europe to a class of 10 -- 4 from Wake…