Dirt Law

So here’s the story. A long time ago, one Walter Glenn Primrose stole the identity of a deceased child named Bobby Fort. The usual thing: Primrose got himself into some financial hot water, and claimed that “someone came to his home and threatened him at gunpoint,” after which he and his wife assumed new identities. Primrose obtained baby Fort’s birth certificate, and used that to get a drivers license and a SSN. Dude even enlisted in the Coast Guard as Fort, and after separating from the service worked for the DOD as a civilian contractor.
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Check this out, a new (to us, at least) article from lawprof Adam J. MacLeod, “Vested Rights and the Presumption of Lawful Use,” 2 Tex. A & M J. of Law & Civil Governance (2026). See if reading the Abstract doesn’t make you want to read the entire piece…
Continue Reading New(ish) Article: Adam J. MacLeod, “Vested Rights and the Presumption of Lawful Use,” 2 Tex. A & M J. of Law & Civil Governance (2026)

Spots are filling up, so if you are even thinking about it, here’s the complete agenda for the 2026 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 14-16, 2026, in London. …
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Yesterday (yes, April Fool’s Day), we returned to William and Mary Law School to help the student-run Real Estate Law Society wrap up its event year. The putative title of our talk was “Hot Topics in Property Law”, but we covered a wider range, including Dirt Law issues to be on the lookout for at the Supreme Court, a century of zoning, career paths in property law (litigation, transactional, academic, for example, and what the hiring market looks like), and some general musings. …
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Check it out, an in-progress piece from lawprof Molly Brady, “Property v. Guns: The Level-of-Generality Problem in Wolford.”

This delves into the issue we posted about last week, the Second Amendment and the right to exclude, an issue argued recently before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Continue Reading New Article (Lawprof Molly Brady): “Property v. Guns: The Level-of-Generality Problem in Wolford”