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Super-Statutory Contracting, Kristelia García
Super-Statutory Contracting, Kristelia García
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The conventional wisdom is that property rules induce more—and more efficient—contracting, and that when faced with rigid property rules, intellectual property owners will contract into more flexible liability rules. A series of recent, private copyright deals show some intellectual property owners doing just the opposite: faced with statutory liability rules, they are contracting for more protection than that dictated by law, something this Article calls “super-statutory contracting”—either by opting for a stronger, more tailored liability rule, or by contracting into property rule protection. Through a series of deal analyses, this Article explores this counterintuitive phenomenon, and updates seminal thinking on …
Privatizing The Reservation?, Kristen A. Carpenter, Angela R. Riley
Privatizing The Reservation?, Kristen A. Carpenter, Angela R. Riley
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The problems of American Indian poverty and reservation living conditions have inspired various explanations. One response advanced by some economists and commentators, which may be gaining traction within the Trump Administration, calls for the “privatization” of Indian lands. Proponents of this view contend that reservation poverty is rooted in the federal Indian trust arrangement, which preserves the tribal land base by limiting the marketability of lands within reservations. In order to maximize wealth on reservations, policymakers are advocating for measures that would promote the individuation and alienability of tribal lands, while diminishing federal and tribal oversight.
Taking a different view, …
Slides: The Columbia River Basin, Barbara Cosens
Slides: The Columbia River Basin, Barbara Cosens
Coping with Water Scarcity in River Basins Worldwide: Lessons Learned from Shared Experiences (Martz Summer Conference, June 9-10)
Presenter: Barbara Cosens, Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty, University of Idaho College of Law, Waters of the West Interdisciplinary Program
16 slides
Modern Lights, Sara C. Bronin
Modern Lights, Sara C. Bronin
University of Colorado Law Review
This Article functions as a companion to a piece, Solar Rights, concurrently published in the Boston University Law Review.1 In that piece, the author analyzed the absence of a coherent legal framework for the treatment of solar rightsthe 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 of sunlight. …
Real Property And Peoplehood, Kristen A. Carpenter
Real Property And Peoplehood, Kristen A. Carpenter
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This Article proposes a theory of real property and peoplehood in which lands essential to the identity and survival of collective groups are entitled to heightened legal protection. Although many Americans are sympathetic to American Indian tribes and their quest for cultural survival, we remain unable to confront the uncomfortable truth that the very thing Indian peoples need is their land, the same land that the U.S. took from them. This is especially the case with regard to the sacred sites of Indian peoples, whose religions and cultures are inextricably linked to those sites. Federal law permits the United States …
Historical Evolution And Future Of Natural Resources Law And Policy: The Beginning Of An Argument And Some Modest Predictions, Sally K. Fairfax, Helen Ingram, Leigh Raymond
Historical Evolution And Future Of Natural Resources Law And Policy: The Beginning Of An Argument And Some Modest Predictions, Sally K. Fairfax, Helen Ingram, Leigh Raymond
The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
8 pages.
Includes bibliographical references
"Sally Fairfax, UC-Berkeley, Helen Ingram, UC-Irvine, and Leigh Raymond, Purdue University" -- Agenda
Contextualizing The Losses Of Allotment Through Literature, Kristen A. Carpenter
Contextualizing The Losses Of Allotment Through Literature, Kristen A. Carpenter
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In this article, the Author undertakes a law and literature approach to a major Indian law problem: understanding the losses of allotment. Allotment was a mid 19th - early 20th century federal legislative program to take large tracts of land owned by Indian tribes, allocate smaller parcels to individual Indians, and sell off the rest to non-Indians. The idea was that Indians would abandon traditional patterns of subsistence to become American-style farmers, and great tracts of land would be freed up for the advance of white settlement. A key component of the federal government's larger project of assimilating Indians into …
Old Ground And New Directions At Sacred Sites On The Western Landscape, Kristen A. Carpenter
Old Ground And New Directions At Sacred Sites On The Western Landscape, Kristen A. Carpenter
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The federal public lands contain places with both religious and secular value for American people. American Indians, in particular, hold certain natural features to be sacred, and visit them for ceremonies and worship. Simultaneously, non-Indians use the same places for economic, recreation, and many other purposes - and conflicts arise between these groups. In the past twenty years, a body of constitutional jurisprudence has developed to address questions of religious freedoms and public access rights on these lands that are owned and managed by the federal government. This article outlines the relevant First Amendment framework as well as recent statutes …
Adverse Possession And Conservation: Expanding Traditional Notions Of Use And Possession, Alexandra B. Klass
Adverse Possession And Conservation: Expanding Traditional Notions Of Use And Possession, Alexandra B. Klass
University of Colorado Law Review
At common law, very minimal actions were needed to establish the "exclusive possession " necessary to acquire land by adverse possession when the land was "wild" or undeveloped. This minimal burden to adversely possess wild lands, which is still the general rule today, stands in contrast to the much higher standard necessary to adversely possess developed lands. This article explores why the lesser standard for adverse possession of wild lands remains a threat to many of the millions of acres of land in this country that are still undeveloped. This article then proposes that courts modernize the adverse possession doctrine …
The Interests Of "Peoples" In The Cooperative Management Of Sacred Sites, Kristen A. Carpenter
The Interests Of "Peoples" In The Cooperative Management Of Sacred Sites, Kristen A. Carpenter
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This essay contends that there is a structural element of federal law and policy that sets up legal battles over American Indian sacred sites. The Supreme Court has held that whatever rights groups may have at sacred sites, the federal government's rights as owner and sovereign of the public lands ultimately prevails. Federal agencies can, if they choose, accommodate various interests on the public lands, but such decisions are left to fluctuating executive policy and the discretion of land managers. This approach reflects well-established doctrine in public lands law, but leaves various citizens and groups clamoring for the federal government …
Values And The Public Lands, Dale Jamieson
Values And The Public Lands, Dale Jamieson
Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)
11 pages.
Contains 3 pages of references.
Ownership Of Water Rights In Irrigation Water Delivery Organizations: An Outline Of The Major Issues, Jeffrey C. Fereday
Ownership Of Water Rights In Irrigation Water Delivery Organizations: An Outline Of The Major Issues, Jeffrey C. Fereday
Water Organizations in a Changing West (Summer Conference, June 14-16)
33 pages.
Contains footnotes.
Natural Resources Policy And Law: Trends And Directions, Lawrence J. Macdonnell, Sarah F. Bates
Natural Resources Policy And Law: Trends And Directions, Lawrence J. Macdonnell, Sarah F. Bates
Books, Reports, and Studies
This digital resource contains only an abstract, cover image and table of contents information from the published book.
Print copy of book is available in the University of Colorado’s Wise Law Library: http://lawpac.colorado.edu/record=b143382~S0
Contents: Rethinking resources : reflections on a new generation of natural resources law and policy / Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Sarah F. Bates -- Natural resources law : an historical perspective / Clyde O. Martz -- Trends in public land law : (a title the inaccuracy of which should become manifest) / George Cameron Coggins -- Mineral law in the United States : a study in legal change …
Economic Analysis Of Liberty And Property: A Critique, Peter N. Simon
Economic Analysis Of Liberty And Property: A Critique, Peter N. Simon
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No abstract provided.
Liberty And Property In The Supreme Court: A Defense Of Roth And Perry, Peter N. Simon
Liberty And Property In The Supreme Court: A Defense Of Roth And Perry, Peter N. Simon
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No abstract provided.