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Property

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Land Use Prof Blog March 2, 2012
ALPS Program
By Land Use Prof
Greetings from the 3d annual meeting of the Association for Law, Property & Society (ALPS) at Georgetown Law Center in DC. Day 1 was great, with a lot of very…
Land Use Prof Blog February 28, 2012
Stein on the Modest Impact of Palazzolo
By Land Use Prof
Gregory M. Stein (Tennessee) has posted The Modest Impact of Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, forthcoming in the Vermont Law Review. The abstract:Before 2001, state and federal courts did not agree…
PropertyProf Blog February 21, 2012
Dagan on the Pluralist Conception of Property
By propertyprof
Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv) has posted Inside Property (Toronto Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Taking seriously the complexity and heterogeneity of property law, this Essay claims that a proper…
The Faculty Lounge February 18, 2012
Property Art … In US Embassies
I'm sitting here editing a short essay that Anna Lineberger and I have written on images of property in Nathaniel Parker Willis' 1840 American Scenery and in Thomas Addison Richards'…
PropertyProf Blog February 13, 2012
Mossoff on the The False Promise of the Right to Exclude
By propertyprof
Adam Mossoff (George Mason) has posted The False Promise of the Right to Exclude (Econ Journal Watch) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This essay, written for the Econ Journal Watch symposium,…
PropertyProf Blog February 2, 2012
Sawers on The Right to Exclude after Emancipation
By propertyprof
Brian Sawers (Maryland VAP) has posted The Right to Exclude after Emancipation: A Quantitative Study on SSRN. Here's the abstract:During the nineteenth century, the landowner’s right to exclude expanded while…
PropertyProf Blog January 20, 2012
Doremus on Climate Change and the Evolution of Property Rights
By propertyprof
Holly Doremus (Berkeley) has posted Climate Change and the Evolution of Property Rights (UC Davis Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Climate change will unsettle expectations about both land and…
Land Use Prof Blog January 18, 2012
Ellickson on the Bundle of Sticks
By Land Use Prof
Last fall we posted about the Econ Journal Watch Symposium "Property: A Bundle of Rights?," with contributions from a number of leading scholars. Just recently, Robert Ellickson's contribution was posted…
PropertyProf Blog January 3, 2012
Conference Announcement: Post-Zoning
By propertyprof
On February 8th, Brooklyn Law School is hosting a conference entitled, Post Zoning: Alternative Forms of Public Land Use Controls. Here's a synopsis:Roughly one hundred years ago, zoning emerged as…
PropertyProf Blog January 3, 2012
Ellickson on the Bundle of Sticks
By propertyprof
Robert Ellickson (Yale) has posted Two Cheers for the Bundle-of-Sticks Metaphor, Three Cheers for Merrill and Smith (Econ J. Watch) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Viewing property rights as a “bundle…