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Property
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PropertyProf Blog
Rwanda’s Problems as Property Problem
By propertyprof
The National Geographic Magazine recently ran an article on Africa's Albertine Rift that describes the property angle that swirls around the tragedy in Rwanda:By the mid-1980s every acre of arable…
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Death of Vaclav Havel
By propertyprof
Vaclav Havel died today. He was a great champion of freedom and truth, carried by his unwavering commitment to both into a world he did not want but would not abandon. Havel,…
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1 in 45 U.S. Children Now Homeless
By propertyprof
This is who we have chosen to be, and property law is a tool we've used to take us there. What the hell are we doing? Mark A. Edwards
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Penalver on Property & Memory
By propertyprof
Eduardo Penalver (Cornell) has posted Property's Memories (Fordham Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This short essay, presented at Fordham's conference on the social functions of property (and in…
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Tom Merrill Previews the Supreme Court’s Newest Property Case
By propertyprof
Tom Merrill previews Wednesday's oral argument in PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana, one of the few property-related cases in the Supreme Court's docket:The case is one for history buffs. The…
The Faculty Lounge
Secrets of a Sperm Stealer?
A resident of Allegheny County, New York is suing a fertility clinic and medical lab in Texas on the grounds that the clinic used his stolen sperm to inseminate his…
The Faculty Lounge
An Easy Case (in theory)
An 80 year old man who didn't trust banks (but was not part of the so-called "Occupy" movement) sewed his life savings of $13,000 in the lining of a suit…
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Property Prof Seeks Law & Society Panel
By propertyprof
Yun-chien Chang, a property professor in Taiwan is trying to organize (or join) a property panel at the Law & Society meeting in Honolulu this summer. He's currently writing about…
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Reflections on David Segal’s Latest NYT Article
By propertyprof
As indicated by Steve’s ridiculously kind post below, I visited the University of Kentucky last Friday. (Thanks for the warm hospitality!) I drove from Winston-Salem to Lexington, and stopped, as…
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McFarlane on the Purposeful Involuntary Divestment of Land Owned by Members of Racial Minorities
By propertyprof
Audrey McFarlane (Baltimore) has posted The Properties of Instability: Markets, Predation, Racialized Geography, and Property Law (Wisconsin Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:A central, symbolic image supporting property ownership…