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Property In Context, Craig J. Albert
Property In Context, Craig J. Albert
Seattle University Law Review
Now that Property has shrunk in most law schools to a single semester of three or four credit hours, Professors J. Gordon Hylton, David L. Callies, Daniel R. Mandelker, and my colleague, Paula A. Franzese, offer a new casebook, Property Law and the Public Interest to respond to the new environment.
The Endangered Species Act: Does "Endangered" Refer To Species, Private Property Rights, The Act Itself, Or All Of The Above?, Diana Kirchheim
The Endangered Species Act: Does "Endangered" Refer To Species, Private Property Rights, The Act Itself, Or All Of The Above?, Diana Kirchheim
Seattle University Law Review
This Comment will focus on the current problems of the ESA and suggest how the ESA can be rewritten to accommodate both environmental and private property interests. Section I will discuss procedure under the ESA. In Section II, the Comment examines the controversial "harm" definition frequently arising in ESA litigation. In Section III, the Comment will dispel the myth that the ESA is currently operating as originally intended and will discuss the reasons why private property owners criticize the current ESA. Section IV will examine a proposal for reauthorizing the ESA written by Senator Dirk Kempthorne (R-Idaho) that Congress failed …
How Do Law Students Really Learn? Problem-Solving, Modern Pragmatism, And Property Law, Craig Anthony Arnold
How Do Law Students Really Learn? Problem-Solving, Modern Pragmatism, And Property Law, Craig Anthony Arnold
Seattle University Law Review
Edward Rabin and Roberta Kwall had student learning in mind when they wrote Fundamentals of Modern Real Property Law. Rabin and Kwall's casebook is an attractive and effective road map for students as they journey through a course (and a body of legal principles and issues) that typically intimidates many law students in virtually every law school.
A Casebook For Teaching Teachers: Jesse Dukeminier And James E. Krier, Property, Daniel B. Bogart
A Casebook For Teaching Teachers: Jesse Dukeminier And James E. Krier, Property, Daniel B. Bogart
Seattle University Law Review
This essay will evaluate the Dukeminier and Krier Property casebook from this perspective: just how good a text is it for teaching new law teachers? The answer, it seems to me, is that their book is very well suited to this goal. Given that I have used the Dukeminier and Krier casebook (D&K casebook) for nine years now, my answer should not surprise the reader. Indeed, I think it is this aspect of the book (and perhaps a general inclination of teachers not to fix what ain't broke) that accounts for the extraordinary loyalty that many professors give to this …
The Old Chestnut Explored: Thoughts About The Survival Of Casner's Cases And Text On Property Long Past Its Prime, Barry Brown
The Old Chestnut Explored: Thoughts About The Survival Of Casner's Cases And Text On Property Long Past Its Prime, Barry Brown
Seattle University Law Review
The pedagogy of the Casner text-now often imitated-assumes a fractional approach to private property. The Hohfeldian bundle of rights rational for allocation and justification of property interests did not begin with Casner or Leach, but the fact that the first edition of the book bearing the combined authors' names appeared in 1947 and has been in continuous use since that time is a testament to the insight of its writers and to its timelessness. That the structure and themes of the text have been followed in a host of casebooks is, no doubt, the sincerest form of flattery
Q: Why Is This Course Different From All Other Courses? A: Maybe It's Not, Louise A. Halper
Q: Why Is This Course Different From All Other Courses? A: Maybe It's Not, Louise A. Halper
Seattle University Law Review
The authors’ claim is to a unique recognition of (1) “the interplay of common law, statutory and constitutional regimes,”(2) “the growing significance of non-land forms of property,” (3) “the emergence of environmental values,” and (4) “the central importance of public policy analysis to resolution of complex social problems.” This is certainly an approach that can benefit the first-year Property teacher whose course is set in a semester that may also contain courses focusing on positive law, like Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, or Criminal Procedure, as mine does.
Why Isn't This Man Smiling?, John W. Weaver
Why Isn't This Man Smiling?, John W. Weaver
Seattle University Law Review
The books reviewed in this article represent five of the seventeen property casebooks in general circulation. These nine reviews of five books also demonstrate one of the continuing tensions for Property teachers. Property teachers not only face the usual problem of coverage versus depth (exacerbated by the cut in hours), but we also have the problem that Gertrude Stein posed for Oakland-that it sometimes seems as if there is no there.
Review: The Essence Of Property Law, Vada Waters Lindsey
Review: The Essence Of Property Law, Vada Waters Lindsey
Seattle University Law Review
Part II of this essay will outline my overall approach to teaching Property and the inherent challenges of the subject. Part III sets out the topics covered in my property classes and the relevance of the “bundle of rights” concept. Part IV describes my use of the problem method in teaching Property and counters the purported disadvantages of applying that method. That part also demonstrates the practical use of the problem approach. Part V examines the evolutionary nature of property law and looks at three areas of law: landlord and tenant relationships, the law of servitudes, and future interests.
Review Of Jesse Dukeminier And James E. Krier, Property (4th Edition 1998), Andrew P. Morriss
Review Of Jesse Dukeminier And James E. Krier, Property (4th Edition 1998), Andrew P. Morriss
Seattle University Law Review
In this review, I will concentrate on two perspectives on the book. I first taught Property in the spring 1998 semester (using the third edition of Dukeminier and Krier) and am (as I write this) about to begin my second year of teaching the course. I can thus give the perspective of a new teacher of the subject. In addition, I am an economist as well as a lawyer and am deeply fascinated by legal history. I try to bring both law and economics and historical perspectives to my teaching. I therefore offer an evaluation of the book with respect …
A Walk Through The Woods Of The Property Course With Dukeminier And Krier's Casebook On Property, Charles I. Nelson
A Walk Through The Woods Of The Property Course With Dukeminier And Krier's Casebook On Property, Charles I. Nelson
Seattle University Law Review
This casebook is organized along three main themes even though it has five major parts. The first two parts seem to me to focus on relative rights in property. The third part discusses transfer of property interests and assurances of title and the fourth discusses regulation of land use by private and public means. The majority of this essay will look at those themes and how they play out in the casebook and in my course. In the latter part of the essay, I will discuss some of the things I find most engaging about the book and why I …
The Perfect Blend Of Methodology, Doctrine & Theory, Peter T. Wendel
The Perfect Blend Of Methodology, Doctrine & Theory, Peter T. Wendel
Seattle University Law Review
In light of the market's overall approval of the casebook, what follows can only be described as but one professor's views on why the Dukeminier and Krier property book works so well for so many and on where it does not work as well as it could.