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(When) Am Imy Borrower’S Keeper? Good Faith And Loan Workouts, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article deals with a California case involving alleged predatory lending and analyzes the duty of fair dealing and why lenders prefer an objective reasonableness standard to that of subjective good faith.

Exactions And Takings: San Remo Hotel V San Francisco, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California Supreme Court decision which upheld an ordinance imposing the full cost of creating a replacement unit elsewhere on the property owner who wanted to covert a residential unit into a tourist unit.

Landlord Tort Liability: White V Contreras, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held a landlord who covenants or undertakes to install a window screen—but fails to do so—may be liable to the tenant’s child who falls out the window.

Liens Reattaching After Foreclosure: Dmc V Downey Sav. & Loan, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held that when a former property owner reacquires it after foreclosure with a new purchase money loan, that lien has priority over the previously wiped-out junior lien that reattached to the property.

Nonrefundable Option Payments As Liquidated Damages: Allen V Smith, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held a residential purchase agreement labelling the buyer’s deposit as “nonrefundable purchase option” is unenforceable.

Recorded Notices That Are Not Burdens On Title: Elysian Inv. Group V Stewart Title. 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held that a recorded notice that a residence was “substandard” was neither a defect in, nor a lien or encumbrance on the title under the title insurance policy.

Termination Of Partnership: Crow Irvine #2 V Winthrop Cal. Investors, 2002, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case which held that a termination clause in a partnership agreement requiring a good faith belief in irreconcilable difference between partners, is measured by a subjective standard, not an objective standard.

Punishing The Factually Innocent: Dna, Habeas Corpus And Justice, Charles I. Lugosi

Charles I. Lugosi

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The Purge Of Mortgage In Japanese Civil Law, Wei Zhang

Wei Zhang

The purge of mortgage is believed to be one of the few French remnants in the otherwise largely German style Japanese Civil Code. Since the breakdown of Japanese asset price bubble in early 1990s, it has been blamed as one major obstacle to clearing up nonperforming loans held by Japanese banks, and a central target subject to abolishment. In this paper, I analyzed the structural problems existing in the Japanese purge system and also probed the history and social background behind the debates about its abolishment. I proposed that, instead of total abolition, a restructured purge system, in particular getting …

Teoría General De La Prueba Judicial, Edward Ivan Cueva

Edward Ivan Cueva

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The Continuing Expansion Of Cyberspace Trespass To Chattels, Laura Quilter

Laura Quilter

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Palazzolo V. Rhode Island: Takings, Investment-Backed Expectations, And Slander Of Title, Garrett Power

Faculty Scholarship

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Comparing The Two Legal Realisms—American And Scandinavian, Gregory S. Alexander

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Zoning, Taking, And Dealing: The Problems And Promise Of Bargaining In Land Use Planning, Erin Ryan

Faculty Publications

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Are We There Yet? The Case For A Uniform Electronic Recording Act, Dale A. Whitman

Faculty Publications

To implement digital recording, a confluence of several factors is necessary: political will on the part of the public officials involved (recorders and their political masters, usually county commissioners or supervisors), legal authority, and budgets adequate to the task. Without all of these factors, little progress is likely.

Land Policy And Adat Law In Indonesia's Forests, Kallie Szczepanski

Washington International Law Journal

The Indonesian government's land laws and policies lead to displacement of and hardship for the indigenous peoples of the archipelago. The Basic Agrarian Law, Basic Forestry Law, and Spatial Planning Law all allow for expropriation of indigenous lands formerly governed under the adat legal system. In addition, the central government's policy of transmigration—the shifting of people from the populous Inner Islands of Java, Bali, and Madura to the Outer Islands—only increases the economic and cultural pressure on indigenous peoples of the Outer Islands. The hopelessness and anger that result from the marginalization of traditional adat societies fuel violent ethnic conflicts, …

Avoiding The Un-Real Estate Deal: Has The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act Gone Too Far?, 35 J. Marshall L. Rev. 311 (2002), Derek Witte

UIC Law Review

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Problem Of Unraveling: Biodiversity And Private Property In Land, Dale Goble

Articles

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Incomplete Compensation For Takings, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

If a tribunal determines that a state actor has expropriated foreign investment property, or, under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), that a state actor has adopted a regulation that is "tantamount to" an expropriation of foreign investment property, then that tribunal must determine the amount of compensation owed. International law has developed methods to determine the size of a compensation award when a state formally expropriates property. But the notion, reflected in Chapter 11 of NAFTA, that states may be required to pay compensation to foreign investors for what are, in effect, regulatory takings, is …

Property In Writing, Property On The Ground: Pigs, Horses, Land, And Citizenship In The Aftermath Of Slavery, Cuba, 1880-1909, Rebecca J. Scott, Michael Zeuske

Articles

In the most literal sense, the abolition of slavery marks the moment when one human being cannot be held as property by another human being, for it ends the juridical conceit of a "person with a price." At the same time, the aftermath of emancipation forcibly reminds us that property as a concept rests on relations among human beings, not just between people and things. The end of slavery finds former masters losing possession of persons, and former slaves acquiring it. But it also finds other resources being claimed and contested, including land, tools, and animals-resources that have shaped former …

Property Law: The Uniform Conservation Easements Act: An Attorney's Guide For The Oklahoma Landowner, Erin Mcdaniel

Oklahoma Law Review

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Gendered Shades Of Property: A Status Check On Gender, Race & Property, Laura M. Padilla

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores the relationship between gender, race and property.Women in the United States continue to be economically disadvantaged, and women of color are even more disadvantaged. This article will open with a review of laws, past and present, which have shaped women's rights to own, manage and transfer property. It will then provide a status check of where women, including women of color, stand in the United States relative to the rest of the population vis-a-vis income and other indicators of economic well-being. The article will then discuss why economic inequality persists, trotting out the usual reasons of discrimination …

Resolving Disputes Over Excess Frozen Embryos Through The Confines Of Property And Contract Law, Shelly R. Petralia

Journal of Law and Health

This Article addresses the conflicts that arise due to the increased number of cryogenically frozen embryos produced during in vitro fertilization (IVF). Part I discusses the IVF process, in general. While it recognizes the man's role in the process, it focuses primarily on the physical and emotional hardships that are placed on the woman. Part I also gives the backdrop of the case law in the area of embryo distribution. Part II introduces the idea that an embryo should be reduced to private property, through utilization of the labor and economic theories of property law. Additionally, an embryo's use, rather …

"Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Place:" Fringe Landowners "Can't Get No Satisfaction." Is It Time To Rethink Annexation Policy In North Carolina?, Julia Sullivan Hooten

Campbell Law Review

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Pliability Rules, Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky

All Faculty Scholarship

In 1543, the Polish astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus, determined the heliocentric design of the solar system. Copernicus was motivated in large part by the conviction that Claudius Ptolemy's geocentric astronomical model, which dominated scientific thought at that time, was too incoherent, complex, and convoluted to be true. Hence, Copernicus made a point of making his model coherent, simple, and elegant. Nearly three and a half centuries later, at the height of the impressionist movement, the French painter Claude Monet set out to depict the Ruen Cathedral in a series of twenty paintings, each presenting the cathedral in a different light. Monet's …

The Error Of Kim V. Lee And Equitable Subrogation: Why Birfucating Lien Priorities Is A Better Remedy, Brad A. Goergen

Washington Law Review

Normally, the priority of an interest in real property is determined according to the date when the interest was recorded in the Recorder's Office of the county in which the property is located. The first interest recorded has first priority. When an interest is satisfied, junior interests are elevated to the next priority level. If a landowner is forced to sell the property to satisfy a debt through foreclosure, the priority of interests determines the order for distributing sale proceeds. Equitable subrogation is a remedy whereby a court gives a subsequent interest holder priority over a prior recorded interest because …

The Extent Of Protection Of The Individual’S Personality Against Commercial Use: Toward A New Property Right, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

The purpose of this Article is to explore the extent of an individual's right of privacy, vis-à-vis the concepts of commercial use and appropriations, which compromise rights of publicity. The deceptively simple, yet complex, conclusion to be drawn from this analysis is that a delicate balance of interests must be struck, either legislatively or judicially, between recognizing a full right of privacy, and its permutations in the right of publicity, with the press and news media. A definitive balancing test may be elusive, but at a minimum, a framework for principled decision making must be attempted. It is imperative that …

Using The Pervasive Method Of Teaching Legal Ethics In A Property Course, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The first-year introductory course in property law is about all that is left of the traditional black-box curriculum. It is where beginning law students cope with and despair of the arcana of English common law; where, with more detachment than, say, in the torts course, analysis of appellate opinions is what "thinking like a lawyer" means, with no more than peripheral and begrudging attention to modem legislation and administrative law; where legal reasoning is a stretching exercise and initiatory discipline. And, incidentally, surviving bravely the rude invasion of teachers of public law, it is where a teaching lawyer can point …

First Suburbs In The Northeast And Midwest: Assets, Challenges, And Opportunities, Robert Puentes

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article examines the decline of first suburbs, the older inner-ring suburbs closest to cities that grew up before or immediately after World War II. As families leave these areas for the expanding outer suburbs, the tax base shrinks and poverty and failing schools result. Inner suburbs lack the sophisticated governmental structures of cities to combat these problems, and without a shift in investment policies, first suburbs will continue to suffer.

Zoning Churches: Washington State Constitutional Limitations On The Application Of Land Use Regulations To Religious Buildings, Darren E. Carnell

Seattle University Law Review

This Article traces a path to various land use regulatory approaches that should survive scrutiny under the Washington State Constitution. Part I outlines the legal history of challenges to the application of zoning regulations to church buildings; Part I also describes the contexts in which such disputes presently arise. Part II introduces the Washington State Constitution's provision regarding the free exercise of religion and describes the limited body of case law that has applied this provision in the land use context. Part III considers the role of federal case law in interpreting the free exercise clause of the Washington State …