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Properties Of Community, Gregory S. Alexander, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Properties Of Community, Gregory S. Alexander, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Theories of property presuppose conceptions of community, and of the individual's relationship to community. In contrast to the dominant theories of community at work within most Anglo-American property theorizing, which view community obligations as fundamentally instrumental and contractual, we propose in this paper a theory that views the relationship between the individual and community as constitutive and substantive. Human beings' dependence on others to flourish imposes on political communities and their individual members a shared obligation to foster and contribute to the creation and maintenance of those structures necessary for that flourishing. This obligation in turn qualifies individual rights of …
Modern Lights, Sara C. Bronin
Modern Lights, Sara C. Bronin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This Article functions as a companion to a piece, Solar Rights, recently published in the Boston University Law Review. In that piece, the author analyzed the absence of a coherent legal framework for the treatment of solar rights - the rights to access and harness the rays of the sun. The growing popularity of, and need for, solar collector technology and other solar uses calls for reform. Answering the call for reform in Solar Rights, this Article proposes a framework within which a solar rights regime might be developed. First, as a baseline, any regime must recognize the natural characteristics …
Human Genetics Studies: The Case For Group Rights, Laura S. Underkuffler
Human Genetics Studies: The Case For Group Rights, Laura S. Underkuffler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Property As Constitutional Myth: Utilities And Dangers, Laura S. Underkuffler
Property As Constitutional Myth: Utilities And Dangers, Laura S. Underkuffler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Demythologizing Property And The Illusion Of Rules: A Response To Two Friendly Critics, Gregory S. Alexander
Demythologizing Property And The Illusion Of Rules: A Response To Two Friendly Critics, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Academic life can be a depressing experience. Despite the enormous amount of time many academics spend producing written scholarship, most of us have little expectation that more than a tiny handful of people will read our published work, if indeed it is read at all. And probably even fewer of us have any expectation whatsoever that the results of our often wrenching labor will be publicly aired. It is a rare occasion when an academic’s scholarship is the subject of public recognition. But oh, how we crave any sort of public commentary, favorable or critical! So, I am extremely grateful …
Wrestling With Muds To Pin Down The Truth About Special Districts, Sara C. Bronin
Wrestling With Muds To Pin Down The Truth About Special Districts, Sara C. Bronin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Federal, state, and local governments encourage and empower special districts—board-run, special purpose local government units that are administratively and fiscally independent from general purpose local governments. Special districts receive incentives, grants, and freedom from limitations (such as limitations on tax and debt) imposed on general purpose local governments. Special districts are treated favorably because they are small in size, which theoretically means they foster democratic participation; are limited in purpose, meaning that states can tailor the special districts' powers to serve specific problems; and are viewed as efficient solutions to specific problems. Though special districts have tripled in number over …
Property Outlaws, Eduardo M. Peñalver, Sonia K. Katyal
Property Outlaws, Eduardo M. Peñalver, Sonia K. Katyal
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Most people do not hold those who intentionally flout property laws in particularly high regard. The overridingly negative view of the property lawbreaker as a wrong-doer comports with the nearly sacrosanct status of property rights within our characteristically individualist, capitalist, political culture. This dim view of property lawbreakers is also shared to a large degree by property theorists, many of whom regard property rights as a fixed constellation of allocative entitlements that collectively produce stability and order through ownership. In this Article, we seek to rehabilitate, at least to a degree, the maligned character of the intentional property lawbreaker, and …
Three Reasons Why Even Good Property Rights Cause Moral Anxiety, Emily Sherwin
Three Reasons Why Even Good Property Rights Cause Moral Anxiety, Emily Sherwin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Entirely apart from the substantive justification for existing private property rights, there are several reasons why property is, unavoidably, a morally uncomfortable subject.
First, legal property rights are and must be the products of determinate legal rules. As such, they inevitably will diverge in some of their applications from the moral principles that support them.
Second, property rights suffer, more than other legal rights, from problems of transition. Most or all justifications for private property envisage secure rights on which people can and will rely. As a result, there may be genuine moral value in the preservation of rights that …
Commentaries: The Ambiguous Work Of “Natural Property Rights”, Gregory S. Alexander
Commentaries: The Ambiguous Work Of “Natural Property Rights”, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The three fascinating papers by Dick Helmholz, Jim Ely, and Mark Tushnet prompt me to ask, why was there so much talk among late 18th and 19th century American lawyers about property as a "natural" right and why has the language persisted today? More specifically, what work is the rhetoric of "natural property rights" intended to do? This is not the proper occasion for developing anything like complete answers to those questions, but I do want to offer three lines of thought that might begin to approach a fuller explanation of the puzzling persistence of natural-property-rights talk.
Lessons From Outlaws, Laura S. Underkuffler
Lessons From Outlaws, Laura S. Underkuffler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Michelman As Doctrinalist, Gregory S. Alexander
Reconstructing Richard Epstein, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Kelo's Moral Failure, Laura S. Underkuffler
Kelo's Moral Failure, Laura S. Underkuffler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Property Metaphors And Kelo V. New London: Two Views Of The Castle, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Property Metaphors And Kelo V. New London: Two Views Of The Castle, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Rehabilitating Rehab Through State Building Codes, Sara C. Bronin
Rehabilitating Rehab Through State Building Codes, Sara C. Bronin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Building codes are not neutral documents. Traditional codes have the effect of deterring the rehabilitation of older structures. But rehabilitation - which can have many positive effects, especially on cities - should be encouraged, not deterred. One promising method of encouraging rehabilitation has been the adoption of rehabilitation codes: building codes that establish flexible but clear requirements for renovators. After analyzing traditional building codes and three different rehabilitation codes, this Note concludes that more states should adopt rehabilitation codes on a mandatory basis.
Beyond Worship: The Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act Of 2000 And Religious Institutions' Auxiliary Uses, Sara C. Bronin
Beyond Worship: The Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act Of 2000 And Religious Institutions' Auxiliary Uses, Sara C. Bronin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Religious institutions have long offered their congregants services that go beyond worship. Particularly in the last two decades, they have begun expanding far beyond their traditional offerings to a wider and more diverse array of auxiliary uses - non-worship uses that are affiliated with a religious institution. (One type of large religious institution, the megachurch, is fast gaining members by offering schools, community centers, dining facilities, even movie theaters and gymnasiums.) Government has long granted special protections to the worship uses of religious institutions. A recent federal law - the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) …
The Just And The Wild, Laura S. Underkuffler
The Just And The Wild, Laura S. Underkuffler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Visions Of Guadalupe: Traces Of The Ghost Panel, Gerald Torres
Visions Of Guadalupe: Traces Of The Ghost Panel, Gerald Torres
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Property As Entrance, Eduardo M. Peñalver
A Jeffersonian Republic By Hamiltonian Means: Values, Constraints & Finance In An Authentic American Ownership Society, Robert C. Hockett
A Jeffersonian Republic By Hamiltonian Means: Values, Constraints & Finance In An Authentic American Ownership Society, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This article, the second in a trilogy, interprets American ownership-spreading programs past and present under the aspect of a comprehensive theory of "the American ownership society" (OS) developed in its predecessor article, titled Whose Ownership? Which Society? It also identifies what appears to be a significant gap in our efforts to become a comprehensive OS thus far.
By early in the 20th century, we had developed and implemented a number of highly innovative and successful programs dedicated to the task of spreading human and nonhuman capital (in the form of arable land in particular) quite broadly. Since about the 1930s, …
Gone Too Far: Measure 37 And The Perils Of Over-Regulating Land Use, Sara C. Bronin
Gone Too Far: Measure 37 And The Perils Of Over-Regulating Land Use, Sara C. Bronin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In November 2004, Oregonians passed a ballot measure, Measure 37, that presented a radical remedy for landowners by preventing the state from engaging in regulatory takings without compensating landowners. It required that local governments either monetarily compensate landowners whose properties fall in value as a result of land use regulations or, under certain conditions, exempt those landowners from the regulations altogether. At its core, Measure 37 addressed Oregon voters' concern that - for all the good the land use system had done - the government had gone too far in prohibiting landowners from using their land as they saw fit. …
On The Right To Private Property And Entitlement To One's Income, Andrei Marmor
On The Right To Private Property And Entitlement To One's Income, Andrei Marmor
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Eminent Domain And Secondary Rent-Seeking, Gregory S. Alexander
Eminent Domain And Secondary Rent-Seeking, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Regulatory Taxings, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Regulatory Taxings, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The tension between the Supreme Court's expansive reading of the Takings Clause and the state's virtually limitless power to tax has been repeatedly noted, but has received little systematic exploration. Although some scholars, most notably Richard Epstein, have used the tension between takings law and taxes to argue against the legitimacy of taxation as it is presently practiced, such an approach has failed to gain a significant following. Instead, the broad legal consensus is that legislatures effectively have unlimited authority to impose tax burdens. Nevertheless, this Article demonstrates that every attempt to formulate a "Reconciling Theory," a theory that would …
Property As Legal Knowledge: Means And Ends, Annelise Riles
Property As Legal Knowledge: Means And Ends, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This article takes anthropologists’ renewed interest in property theory as an opportunity to consider legal theory-making as an ethnographic subject in its own right. My focus is on one particular construct – the instrument, or relation of means to ends, that animates both legal and anthropological theories about property. An analysis of the workings of this construct leads to the conclusion that rather than critique the ends of legal knowledge, the anthropology of property should devote itself to articulating its own means.
Is Land Special? The Unjustified Preference For Landownership In Regulatory Takings Law, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Is Land Special? The Unjustified Preference For Landownership In Regulatory Takings Law, Eduardo M. Peñalver
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This article critiques the Court's attempt to cabin the Lucas "per se" takings rule by limiting it to real property. It argues that the distinction between real and personal property cannot be justified by history or the differing expectations of property owners. It then applies five theoretical frameworks (libertarian, personhood, utilitarian, public choice, and Thomistic-Aristotelian natural law) and finds that none of them supports the jurisprudential distinction between real and personal property. As a result, the article argues that "because the distinction between personal and real property is an unprincipled one, it cannot save the Court from the unpalatable implications …
Tahoe's Requiem: The Death Of The Scalian View Of Property And Justice, Laura S. Underkuffler
Tahoe's Requiem: The Death Of The Scalian View Of Property And Justice, Laura S. Underkuffler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Limits Of Property Reparations, Gregory S. Alexander
The Limits Of Property Reparations, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Human history is replete with examples of unjustified expropriations of property by conquering states and other transitory regimes. Only in modern times, however, have nations attempted systematically to remedy historical injustices by providing reparations to the dispossessed owners or their successors. From the aboriginal peoples of the Antipodes to the Native Americans of Canada and the U.S. to the European victims of the German and Soviet communism, groups of people who were stripped of their land and possessions by fraud or force are demanding, and in many cases getting, reparations for these injustices. The thesis of this paper is that …
Property As A Fundamental Constitutional Right? The German Example, Gregory S. Alexander
Property As A Fundamental Constitutional Right? The German Example, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Comparing The Two Legal Realisms—American And Scandinavian, Gregory S. Alexander
Comparing The Two Legal Realisms—American And Scandinavian, Gregory S. Alexander
Cornell Law Faculty Publications