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Local Property Law: Adjusting The Scale Of Property Protection, Christopher Serkin
Local Property Law: Adjusting The Scale Of Property Protection, Christopher Serkin
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Article proposes that local governments should be able to decide for themselves how to protect private property, and then be held to that choice as if it were a local constitutional pre-commitment. Specifically, the Article proposes state enabling legislation to create a mechanism for local pre-commitments around the most contested takings and land use issues, like the meaning of public use, the extent of just compensation, the diminution of value that triggers compensation, and others. The resulting local variation in property regimes would allow consumers - homeowners, developers, and any other property owners - to select the property protection …