Topic

Property

479 published works

The Faculty Lounge July 27, 2012
Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights
The University of Oklahoma Press has just published the above-entitled book by my University of Dayton colleague Blake Watson. I had a chance to read the unpublished manscript, and I'm…
PropertyProf Blog July 9, 2012
Lehavi on Property Theory and the Business Corporation
By propertyprof
Amnon Lehavi (Radzyner School of Law - Israel) has posted Onerous Property: Why the Business Corporation is Missing from Property Theory on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Property theory is thriving. Having…
PropertyProf Blog July 6, 2012
Is It a Taking if the Government Seizes Your Computer and Destroys It?
By propertyprof
Joseph Singer highlights a case out of the federal circuit:The Federal Circuit ruled in Kam-Almaz v. U.S. 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 12581 (Fed. Cir. 2012), that there was no unconstitutional taking…
Land Use Prof Blog July 3, 2012
Happy Independence Day
By Land Use Prof
We hope our US readers all have a safe and happy Fourth of July. Here's a link to last year's musings on the day and its land use implications (of…
PropertyProf Blog June 19, 2012
Thanks to Thomas Gibbons
By propertyprof
This post is long overdue, but I wanted to thank Thomas Gibbons for his recent blogging stint. His posts were insightful & informative, and we hope he'll join us again…
PropertyProf Blog June 19, 2012
Wanted: Awesome T-shirt
By propertyprof
Tim Mulvaney, Secretary of the AALS Property Seciton, passes along a fun announcement. The AALS Section on Property intends to hold an informal gathering at the AALS Annual Meeting in…
Environmental Law Prof Blog June 15, 2012
Call for Papers: Washington and Lee’s “Climate Change in the Former Colonies: Challenges of Property and History”
By Environmental Law Prof
From the CFP: Washington and Lee University School of Law’s Law and History Center, in partnership with Virginia Sea Grant, will host a symposium on Climate Change in the Former…
PropertyProf Blog June 13, 2012
Davidson on Property and Identity
By propertyprof
Nestor Davidson (Fordham) has posted Property and Identity: Vulnerability and Insecurity in the Housing Crisis (Harvard Civ. Rights & Civ Liberties L.J.) on the web. Here's the last paragraph of…
Land Use Prof Blog June 12, 2012
Davidson on Property and Identity
By Land Use Prof
The Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review has published Property and Identity: Vulnerability and Insecurity in the Housing Crisis, 47 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 119 (2012) by Nestor Davidson (Fordham). …
PropertyProf Blog June 4, 2012
Should We Just Buy Cuba, Already?
By propertyprof
Joseph Blocher muses over why countries no longer buy and sell territory from each other:Somewhere along the way, the market for sovereign territory seems to have dried up, at least…