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Valuing Control, Peter Dicola
Valuing Control, Peter Dicola
Michigan Law Review
Control over property is valuable in and of itself. Scholars have not fully recognized or explored that straightforward premise, which has profound implications for the economic analysis of property rights. A party to a property dispute may actually prefer liability-rule protection for an entitlement resting with the other party to liability-rule protection for an entitlement resting with her. This Article presents a novel economic model that determines the conditions under which that is the case—by taking account of how parties value control. The model suggests new opportunities for policymakers to resolve conflicts and to develop better information about property disputes …
Public International Law And Its Territorial Imperative, Dino Kritsiotis
Public International Law And Its Territorial Imperative, Dino Kritsiotis
Michigan Journal of International Law
Territory, or the concept of territory, thus asserts itself throughout the discipline of public international law, and its influences can be felt either through direct means or discrete.
Torts-Liability Of A Landlord For Injuries To Persons On The Premises-Covenant To Repair-Effect Of Repairs Made Under Such Covenant Subsequent To An Injury Caused By Defect Repaired, William M. Myers S.Ed.
Torts-Liability Of A Landlord For Injuries To Persons On The Premises-Covenant To Repair-Effect Of Repairs Made Under Such Covenant Subsequent To An Injury Caused By Defect Repaired, William M. Myers S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
It is generally agreed that the tort liability of the holder of an estate in land is an incident of occupation or control. However, the courts are not agreed as to the degree of control which will sustain such liability. Neither are their holdings uniform as to the inferences which are to be drawn with respect thereto from the existence of an agreement by a landlord to make repairs or from the act of a landlord in repairing a defect in demised premises under such agreement, subsequent to an injury caused by the defect repaired.