A big thanks to friend and colleague Paul Henry for bringing to our attention this article by Andrew Stuttaford, UFOs and Eminent Domain.
No, it (unfortunately) is not the latest tenure-making scholarly law journal article (but we can dream, can’t we?), but a piece in National Review.
It details a proposal to release
New noteworthy dirt law scholarship, from U. Chicago’s Prof. Lee Anne Fennell, “Property as Service Streams.” Here’s the Abstract:
Property’s job is to help people derive benefits from resources. But often it cannot do this work well. A core problem is an outmoded model of benefit production that treats the individually owned parcel
The Texas A & M Journal of Property Law is always a good read, with many articles worthy of your time. But the Journal‘s latest, Volume 9, No. 4 (2023) stands out because it includes the papers for the Symposium on Natural Property Rights.
Check out these titles and authors:
Here’s what we’re reading this Tuesday:
If you know, you know.
Pacific Legal Foundation (that’s us) has put out a call for papers about “Rethinking Penn Central.” Here’s the details (pdf).
Here’s some of the suggested topics:
Thank you to to good folks at ALI-CLE’s The Practical Lawyer, for putting me together with Rajiv Khanna, and memorializing our recent conversation in this piece to be published in next month’s issue: “Conversation With a Colleague: Robert Thomas,” The Practical Lawyer (ALI-CLE June 2023).
Rajiv and I chatted about property law
Here’s an article for your Monday reading, Bethany R. Berger, Property and the Right to Enter, 80 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 71 (2023).
Here’s the abstract:
On June 23, 2021, the Supreme Court decided Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, holding that laws that authorize entry to land are takings without regard to
Check this out, a recently-published article in the Virginia Law Review, Aziz Z. Huq, “Property against Legality: Takings after Cedar Point,” 109 Va. L. Rev. 233 (Apr. 10, 2023).
Here’s the abstract:
In the American constitutional tradition, a zealous judicial defense of property is closely aligned with the idea of “the rule
Check this out, a new student-authored note from William and Mary third-year law student Alex Boone, “The Tide’s Coming In: A New Case for Beachfront Property Rights in South Carolina,” 47 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 383 (2023).
Here’s the Abstract:
Part I of this Note explores the scientific data
Check this out, a new article co-authored by a federal judge’s law clerk and lawprof Lior Strahilevitz (Chicago). With the title, “Toward Principled Background Principles in Takings Law” are we going to read it? You bet. (Unlike a lot of new scholarship that we post here, we read this one immediately.)
Here’s the