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Property

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PropertyProf Blog March 20, 2012
A Portrait of the World’s Possessions
By propertyprof
Photojournalist Peter Menzel's Material World may be of interest to PropertyProfs. "In each of the 30 countries, Menzel found a statistically average family and photographed them outside their home, with…
PropertyProf Blog March 14, 2012
Claeys on the Bundle of Sticks
By propertyprof
Eric Claeys (George Mason) has posted Bundle-of-Sticks Notions in Legal and Economic Scholarship (Econ J. Watch) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:The phrase “bundle of rights” does not serve as an…
The Faculty Lounge March 14, 2012
Sawers Stepping into the Lounge
Brian Sawers of the University of Maryland's Francis King Carey School of Law is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell. Brian has previously taught at…
PropertyProf Blog March 13, 2012
Rosser on Progressive Property
By propertyprof
Ezra Rosser (American) has posted The Ambition and Transformative Potential of Progressive Property (California Law Review / Berkeley) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:The emerging progressive property school of thought champions…
PropertyProf Blog March 7, 2012
Wiseman on Private Governance in Property Regimes
By propertyprof
Hannah Wiseman (Florida State) has posted Castles, Tenements, and the Private Governance Divide on SSRN. Here's the abstract:The revered status of American home ownership has deep and seemingly impenetrable roots.…
PropertyProf Blog March 6, 2012
Smith on Property as the Law of Things
By propertyprof
Henry Smith (Harvard) has posted Property as the Law of Things (Harvard Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:The New Private Law takes seriously the need for baselines in general…
PropertyProf Blog March 6, 2012
Long on the Rhetorical Landscape of Property Dispute
By propertyprof
Jerrold Long (Idaho) has posted Waiting for Hohfeld: Property Rights, Property Privileges, and the Physical Consequences of Word Choice on SSRN. Here's the abstract:An important part of our institutional and…
The Faculty Lounge March 6, 2012
The Latest on the History of Property Law
Three of my favorite legal historians have articles in the most recent issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: James W. Ely on "The Constitution and Economic…
The Faculty Lounge March 6, 2012
The Latest in Property Pedagogy
I'm delighted to repor that Calvin Massey's new casebook, Property Law: Principles, Problems, and Cases, has just arrived in my mailbox. Perhaps most exciting to me is that it begins…
Land Use Prof Blog March 5, 2012
Dagan: Inside Property
By Land Use Prof
Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv) has posted Inside Property, forthcoming in University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 63, No. 1, January 2013. The abstract:Taking seriously the complexity and heterogeneity of property…