Real Estate & Property Law

Klass on Carbon Sequestration and Property Rights

Posted on April 10, 2009
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota) has posted Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, and Property Rights on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This Article considers the role of property rights in efforts to sequester underground hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2)...

Reiss on Regulation of Subprime and Predatory Lending

Posted on April 10, 2009
David J. Reiss (Brooklyn Law School) has posted Regulation of Subprime and Predatory Lending on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This is an entry on the Regulation of Subprime and Predatory Lending for THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HOUSING AND HOME (Elsevier...

Rose on Ellickson's Property Scholarship

Posted on April 09, 2009
Carol M. Rose (Arizona) has posted Of Natural Threads and Legal Hoops: Bob Ellickson's Property Scholarship on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This brief retrospective identifies several of the constant ideas that have run through Robert Ellickson's property scholarship over a...

Salkin on Climate Change and Local Government

Posted on April 09, 2009
Patricia Salkin (Albany) has posted New York Climate Change Report Card: Improvement Needed for More Effective Leadership and Overall Coordination with Local Government on SSRN. Here's the abstract: New York ranks eight out of the 50 states in terms of...

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Massey on Church Property

Posted on April 09, 2009
Calvin R. Massey (Hastings) has posted Church Schisms, Church Property, and Civil Authority on SSRN. Here's the abstract: When the Supreme Court decided Jones v. Wolf it required courts to use secular criteria to decide church property disputes, yet there...

Hirokawa From Texas Weslyan to Albany

Posted on April 09, 2009
This is slightly old news, but PropertyProf Keith Hirokawa is moving from Texas Weslyan to Albany. Ben Barros [Comments are held for approval, so there will be some delay in posting]

A Thousand Words?

Posted on April 08, 2009
PowerPoint has caused a good deal of angst in the LawProf blogosphere. Although I appreciate the arguments that it impedes learning, I'm firmly planted in the pro-PowerPoint vineyard. I like being able to present complicated hypotheticals on the screen...

Teaching the Rule Against Perpetuities

Posted on April 08, 2009
The latest issue of The Law Teacher has a short essay by Diane J. Klein (La Verne) titled Why Teach The Rule Against Perpetuities: Four Good Reasons. Here are the reasons: (1) Studying the Rule Against Perpetuities Makes You Smarter...

AALS Call For Papers

Posted on April 08, 2009
From Carol Brown, Chair of the AALS Property Section: The Sections on Property Law and Real Estate Transactions are co-sponsoring an extended program at the 2010 AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The program theme is law as transformative...

Global Warming as Property Problem

Posted on April 08, 2009
Matt Yglesias recently posted a report that discusses how global warming may force the redrawing of international borders: Melting glaciers in the Alps may prompt Italy and Switzerland to redraw their borders near the Matterhorn, according to parliamentary draft legislation...

The Coming Rental Revolution

Posted on April 06, 2009
In the last few weeks, The New York Times has run a series of unrelated articles exploring how the foreclosure crisis is affecting the rental housing market (see here, here, and here). The general thrust of these pieces is that...

Pritchett from Penn to Rutgers-Camden as Chancellor

Posted on April 06, 2009
UPenn's Wendell Pritchett is moving to Rutgers-Camden as Chancellor. I'm not sure whether Wendell considers himself a PropertyProf, but I think it is fair to lay claim to him as one of our own because of his scholarship on housing...

Best. Postcard. Ever.

Posted on April 03, 2009
Steve Clowney

More Waterblogging

Posted on April 02, 2009
Jack Shafer of Slate has posted a neat piece that attempts to dispel the myth that water shortages can lead to armed combat: Water scarcity in the [Middle East] results in "conflict and tension," Barnaby adds, but the Israeli and...

A Toast to Property

Posted on April 02, 2009
I came across a fun New York Times blog post about the trials and tribulations of trying to find one's "signature cocktail:" If I had to guess, I?d say that many of us aren?t drinking what we?d truly like to...

Notice to Commercial Tenants of Eminent Domain Taking

Posted on April 02, 2009
The New Jersey Eminent Domain Blog has an interesting post on a recent decision by a New Jersey intermediate appellate court holding that a commercial tenant was not entitled to notice of eminent domain proceedings against the property. The post...

Supreme Court Opinion in Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Posted on April 01, 2009
The Supreme Court issued an opinion yesterday in Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The case is a bit outside of my area of expertise, but might be of interest to PropertyProfs interested in landownership by indigenous peoples. It also...

The Ancient Mariner Was Right

Posted on March 31, 2009
With fewer and fewer classes left in the semester, I'm starting to think about how I can make adjustments to my syllabus for next year. Most of my internal debate is fairly predictable: is the time spent on rule against...

McFarlane on Eminent Domain and Redevelopment

Posted on March 30, 2009
Audrey McFarlane (U. Baltimore) has posted Rebuilding the Public-Private City: Regulatory Taking's Anti-Subordination Insights for Eminent Domain and Redevelopment on SSRN. Here's the abstract: The eminent domain debate, steeped in the language of property rights, currently lacks language and conceptual...

Billboard War

Posted on March 30, 2009
The good people of Los Angeles are in the middle of a nasty dust up over the regulation of billboards. The long-running dispute pits the planning commission and City Council against the region's well-heeled outdoor advertising industry. Christopher Hawthorne of...

For the PropertyProf With Everything...

Posted on March 29, 2009
...except a sense of style. hat tip: Faculty Lounge Steve Clowney

A Year in the Life

Posted on March 26, 2009
Thinking more about the entry-level hires today raised one question: Is there anything property-specific that isn?t covered in the literature on getting started in legal academia? With only one year under my belt, I don't think I have a lot...

Does Patty Salkin Ever Sleep?

Posted on March 26, 2009
I recently received a press release announcing the publication of the new five-volume American Law of Zoning from West, edited by Patty Salkin. Given the absurd number of other publications that Patty produces, not to mention her blog The Law...

Hernando de Soto on the Credit Crisis

Posted on March 26, 2009
The Wall Street Journal has an op ed by Hernando de Soto on the credit crisis that will be of interest to property profs. Ben Barros [Comments are held for approval, so there will be some delay in posting]

Priest from Northwestern to Yale

Posted on March 25, 2009
PropertyProf Claire Priest is moving from Northwestern to Yale. Ben Barros [Comments are held for approval, so there will be some delay in posting]

Penalver on Squatting at Slate

Posted on March 25, 2009
Eduardo Penalver (Cornell), an occasional guest blogger here at PropertyProf, has an interesting article at Slate on how cities should react to squatters in the current economic environment. Some of his recommendations: [G]overnments should attack the problem on both the...

Ely on Post-Kelo Eminent Domain Reform at OUP Blog

Posted on March 25, 2009
Over at the OUP blog, James W. Ely Jr. (Vanderbilt) has a post on post-Kelo eminent domain reform. His conclusion: Although the state legislative response to Kelo has been decidedly mixed, several state supreme courts have struck down the exercise...

Welcome to Thunderdome

Posted on March 25, 2009
Tonight I was cruising through the Legal Theory Blog?s entry-level-hiring list and was struck by the awesomeness of the incoming profs. Wow. Special congratulations are in order for all the new PropertyProfs who have landed jobs. A hearty welcome to....

Adversely Possessing Your Blog

Posted on March 24, 2009
Longtime listener, first time caller. Many thanks to Ben for inviting me to play on the PropertyProf sandbox. If all goes well over the next few weeks this blogging stuff will get me fired, I'll start my own website, and...

Guest Blogger Steve Clowney

Posted on March 24, 2009
I'm delighted that Steve Clowney of the University of Kentucky School of Law will be joining us as a guest blogger. Welcome Steve! Ben Barros [Comments are held for approval, so there will be some delay in posting]

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