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A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Analysis Of The Use Of Eminent Domain To Create A Leasehold, Carol Zeiner

Carol Zeiner

A THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN TO CREATE A LEASEHOLD

ABSTRACT

Therapeutic jurisprudence provides an excellent tool to analyze and guide the development of the law on the use of eminent domain to create leaseholds. These are takings in which the objective is for the condemnor to become a tenant under a “lease,” rather than the fee simple owner.

I am perhaps the only scholar who has written extensively on the topic of takings to create a leasehold. In a previous work I provided an exhaustive analysis of the conclusion that government can use eminent domain …

Section 529 Prepaid College Tuition Scholarships: Help In Uncertain Economic Times, Carol Zeiner

Carol Zeiner

The economy is wretched. The United States’ economic recovery is dependent in part on the country’s position in a global economy. If we as a nation wish to remain competitive in a knowledge-based economy that requires a higher level of education, we must facilitate greater access to postsecondary education. Unfortunately, in the last two decades, the United States has fallen from first to tenth place in the world in the proportion of its population that has obtained that all important postsecondary education. President Obama has set a goal of restoring the United States to first place by 2020. The United …