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Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal, Volume 7, William & Mary Law School
Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal, Volume 7, William & Mary Law School
Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal
The Future of Regulatory Takings
October 12-13, 2017
Panel 1: The Future of Land Use Regulation: A Tribute to Callies
Panel 3: Property Rights in Water
Panel 4: The Denominator Problem and Other Emerging Issues in the Regulatory Takings Field
Hohfeld And Property, Michael S. Green
The Schofield/Gunner Decisions And Episcopal Church Property-Splitting Litigation: Considering Proposed Improvements To The Litigation Process And The Neutral Principles Of Law Doctrine, Ten Years On, Timothy D. Watson
William & Mary Business Law Review
In recent years, the Episcopal Church in the United States has seen a spate of parishes leaving the Church. Many of these departing parishes have attempted to take property with them as they leave and continue to operate independently or realign themselves with a different denomination. The Episcopal Church maintains that this property is held by the parishes on behalf of the national Church, and has generally been successful in obtaining a return of the property through legal action. In deciding these suits, state courts have skirted carefully around the contours of ecclesiastical questions; many state courts, following the Supreme …
The Natural Property Rights Straitjacket: The Takings Clause, Taxation, And Excessive Rigidity, Eric Kades
The Natural Property Rights Straitjacket: The Takings Clause, Taxation, And Excessive Rigidity, Eric Kades
Faculty Publications
Natural property rights theories have become the primary lens through which conservative jurists and scholars view the Constitution’s main property rights provision, the Takings Clause. One of their most striking arguments is that progressive income taxation — applying higher tax rates to higher incomes — is an unconstitutional taking of wealthy taxpayers’ property. This has become part and parcel of well-established battle lines between conservative property rights advocates and their liberal counterparts. What has gone unnoticed is that the very same argument deployed against progressive taxation also deems regressive taxation — applying lower tax rates to higher incomes — an …