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Passive Takings, Christopher Serkin
Passive Takings, Christopher Serkin
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
As conventionally understood, regulatory takings doctrine protects property owners from the most significant costs of legal transitions. Legal change has therefore always been central to regulatory takings claims. This Article argues that it does not need to be, and that governments can violate the Takings Clause by failing to act in the face of a changing world. This is much more than a minor refinement of takings law because government liability for failing to act means that, in at least some circumstances, the Takings Clause imposes an affirmative obligation on the government to protect property. This liability runs counter to …
Symposium: The Role Of Federal Law In Private Wealth Transfer, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Symposium: The Role Of Federal Law In Private Wealth Transfer, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Increasingly, federal law impacts court decisions involving private wealth transfer. Increasingly, federal law is the central consideration in premortem and postmortem planning for private wealth transfer. Despite this, until recently, little scholarly attention has been paid to this phenomenon; the assumption regarding the centrality of state law, quoted above, having gone largely unquestioned. But now that the "sleeping giant" has awakened, the role that federal law plays in private wealth transfer requires serious and comprehensive academic consideration.