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Making Virtual Things, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
Making Virtual Things, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
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People value virtual things—such as NFTs—because such assets trigger and satisfy deep-seated narratives of property and ownership. The cause of the recent series of failures to regulate virtual assets, and the resulting crashes, has been a failure to take seriously the ways people perceive and use the assets. Current legal frameworks fail to support buyers’ and users’ expectations of ownership in virtual things they purchase.
Making virtual things is a matter of social construction of value. Virtual things, like real-world things, have value because a community values them for a purpose. It therefore makes no sense to discount how and …
Tokenized: The Law Of Non-Fungible Tokens And Unique Digital Property, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
Tokenized: The Law Of Non-Fungible Tokens And Unique Digital Property, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
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Markets for unique digital property--digital equivalents of rare artworks, collectible trading cards, and other assets that gain value from scarcity--have exploded in the past few years. At root is the next iteration of blockchain technology, unique digital assets called non-fungible tokens. Unlike bitcoin, where one coin is the same as another, NFTs are unique, each with different attributes. An NFT that represented ownership of Boardwalk would be quite different from one that represented Baltic Avenue.
NFTs have grown from a few early breakout successes to a rapidly developing market for unique digital treasures. The attraction to buyers is that, unlike …
Property As The Law Of Virtual Things, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
Property As The Law Of Virtual Things, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
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Property law in the twentieth century moved from the law of things to the law of rights in things. This was a process of fragmentation: Under Hohfeldian property, we conceive of property as a bundle of sticks, and those sticks can be moved to different holders; the right to possess can be separated from the record ownership right, for example. The downside of Hohfeld's model is that physical objects—things—become informationally complicated. Thing-ness constrains the extravagances of Hohfeldian property: although we can split off the right to possess from the right to exclude, use, destroy, copy, manage, repair, and so on, …
Eminent Domain And Unfettered Discretion: Lessons From A History Of U.S. Territorial Takings, Jill M. Fraley
Eminent Domain And Unfettered Discretion: Lessons From A History Of U.S. Territorial Takings, Jill M. Fraley
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Eminent domain is a minimal constitutional protection for private property and one that is subject to far more discretion than previously recognized by scholars. This Article traces a novel legal history of land takings within the U.S. Territories, focusing on some of the most egregious and controversial incidents and problematic patterns originating within eminent domain law. Comparing this history to recent research that demonstrates how takings in the States have disproportionately impacted Black communities, this Article articulates three patterns of injustices in takings echoing between Black mainland communities and indigenous communities in the Territories: large-scale federally funded actions, local government …
Climate Change, Sustainability, And The Failure Of Modern Property Theory, Jill M. Fraley
Climate Change, Sustainability, And The Failure Of Modern Property Theory, Jill M. Fraley
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Property rights are, I argue, the single largest legal limitation on our ability to respond effectively to the climate change crisis. This is because our understanding of the scope of property rights shapes and limits legal concepts such as regulatory takings, land use law, common law tort and property claims, and statutory environmental regulation. Property sets our cultural norms about how much the government can or should control the uses of land. The goals of this Article are to (1) historically demonstrate the failures of sociallyoriented property theory as they are represented in the analytical framework of doctrines such as …
Modern Waste Law, Bankruptcy, And Residential Mortgage, Jill M. Fraley
Modern Waste Law, Bankruptcy, And Residential Mortgage, Jill M. Fraley
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Around the time of the subprime mortgage collapse, lenders began in earnest to sue borrowers by adapting the traditional law of waste. Today, these claims continue to rise in frequency and to expand to more jurisdictions. Lender waste claims provide a “work around” for state mortgage laws that prohibit personal deficiency judgments after foreclosure and are potentially non-dischargeable in bankruptcy.
While a recent wave of scholarship has addressed the problems of how the bankruptcy system handles mortgages, scholars have not yet explored the use of waste actions by lenders and how waste judgments intersect with bankruptcy and foreclosure. Using new …
Liability For Unintentional Nuisances: How The Restatement Of Torts Almost Negligently Killed The Right To Exclude In Property Law, Jill M. Fraley
Liability For Unintentional Nuisances: How The Restatement Of Torts Almost Negligently Killed The Right To Exclude In Property Law, Jill M. Fraley
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This article argues that nuisance was historically unique in tort law because of its special role in protecting property rights.' In other words, nuisance historically had distinct features addressed to the special situation of land. Most importantly, nuisance protected the right to exclude in a way that no other cause of action did. The Second Restatement's change then diminished our rights to private property to the extent that it has been adopted. The majority of courts retain the more logical and defensible position--that property rights are special and nuisance encompasses something more than the idea of negligence.
The Meaning Of Dispossession, Jill M. Fraley
The Meaning Of Dispossession, Jill M. Fraley
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This Article critiques our focus on possession as the cornerstone of theories of property, examining the limitations of possession both as a theoretical concept and as a practical one. Second, the article examines how an investment-based labor approach has sharply shaped out understandings of possession. By examining the intertwining of possession and labor during colonization, the article describes how the labor approach to possession excluded more communal corollaries and instilled in American property law a consistent push toward grounding land claims at the labor-possession nexus.
Re-thinking the labor-possession nexus yields important shifts. First, labor matters for other reasons than investment-backed …
Foreclosure Of A Deed Of Trust In Virginia, Doug Rendleman
Foreclosure Of A Deed Of Trust In Virginia, Doug Rendleman
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This article deals with foreclosure of a deed of trust in Virginia. The Introduction discusses the deed of trust or mortgage as a social and political institution and the foreclosure crisis that seems to be ending. Part I is a brief history of mortgage law. It provides a short history of the modern mortgage system in the United States. Part II follows with a description of the approach that Virginia takes to mortgages. It localizes the mortgage institution to Virginia and introduces Virginia's vocabulary and technical details, the deed of trust, and the parties' rights and obligations. Part III provides …
Bitproperty, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
Bitproperty, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
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Property is the law of lists and ledgers. County land records, stock certificate entries, mortgage registries, UCC filings on personal property, United States Copyright and Patent registries of interests in intellectual property, bank accounts, domain name systems, and consumers’ Kindle eBook collections in the cloud — all are merely entries in a list, determining who owns what.
Each such list has suffered under a traditional limitation. To prevent falsification or duplication, a single entity must maintain the list, and users must trust (and pay) that entity. As a result, transactions must proceed at significant expense and delay. Yet zero or …
Introduction To Property, History & Climate Change In The Former Colonies Symposium Special Issue, Jill M. Fraley
Introduction To Property, History & Climate Change In The Former Colonies Symposium Special Issue, Jill M. Fraley
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Finding Possession: Labor, Waste And The Evolution Of Property, Jill M. Fraley
Finding Possession: Labor, Waste And The Evolution Of Property, Jill M. Fraley
Scholarly Articles
Although possession has long been intimately linked to labor, recent historical work on land claims during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries suggests that the clash of divergent legal cultures of possession drove the two apart. This clash yielded an American concept of possession much more deeply connected to industrialization than the traditional understanding of labor. By providing evidence of how our concept of labor was industrialized, this article questions the outcomes in modem possession cases, particularly as they impact development and environmental preservation in rural areas.
Virtual Property, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
Virtual Property, Joshua A.T. Fairfield
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This article explores three new concepts in property law. First, the article defines an emerging property form - virtual property - which is not intellectual property, but that more efficiently governs rivalrous, persistent, and interconnected online resources. Second, the article demonstrates that the threat to high-value uses of internet resources is not the traditional tragedy of the commons that results in overuse. Rather, the naturally layered nature of the internet leads to overlapping rights of exclusion that cause underuse of internet resources: a tragedy of the anticommons. And finally, the article shows that the common law of property can act …
Hodel V. Irving, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
First English Evangelical Lutheran Church Of Glendale V. County Of Los Angeles, California, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
First English Evangelical Lutheran Church Of Glendale V. County Of Los Angeles, California, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Nollan V. California Coastal Commission, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Nollan V. California Coastal Commission, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. V. Public Utilities Commission Of California, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. V. Public Utilities Commission Of California, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Reed V. Campbell, Individually And As Administrix Of The Estate Of Ricker, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Reed V. Campbell, Individually And As Administrix Of The Estate Of Ricker, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Summa Corporation V. California Ex Rel. State Lands Commission, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Summa Corporation V. California Ex Rel. State Lands Commission, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Loretto V. Teleprompter, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Loretto V. Teleprompter, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Kaiser Aetna V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Kaiser Aetna V. United States, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Agins V. City Of Tiburon, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Agins V. City Of Tiburon, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
United States V. Sioux Nation Of Indians, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
United States V. Sioux Nation Of Indians, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
United States V. 564.64 Arces Of Land, More Or Less, Situated In Monroe And Pike Counties, Pennsylvania, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
United States V. 564.64 Arces Of Land, More Or Less, Situated In Monroe And Pike Counties, Pennsylvania, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Shaffer V. Heitner, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Shaffer V. Heitner, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Village Of Arlington Heights V. Metropolitan Housing Development Authority Corp., Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Village Of Arlington Heights V. Metropolitan Housing Development Authority Corp., Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Flint Ridge Development Company V. Scenic Rivers Of Oklahoma, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Flint Ridge Development Company V. Scenic Rivers Of Oklahoma, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Village Of Belle Terre V. Boraas, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Village Of Belle Terre V. Boraas, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Dept. Of Game V. Puyallup, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Dept. Of Game V. Puyallup, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Absolute Conveyance As A Mortgage In Iowa, Doug Rendleman
Absolute Conveyance As A Mortgage In Iowa, Doug Rendleman
Scholarly Articles
None available