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Carol Zeiner

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A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Analysis Of The Use Of Eminent Domain To Create A Leasehold, Carol Zeiner Dec 2011

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 …