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Supreme Power To Seize Land Goes Too Far, David J. Reiss

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

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Taking State Property Rights Out Of Federal Labor Law, Jeffrey M. Hirsch

ExpressO

Currently, the National Labor Relations Board determines whether union organizers have a right to access employer property by looking almost exclusively to an employer’s state law right-to-exclude. If the employer possesses such a right, an attempt to exclude organizers will generally be lawful; if the employer lacks that right, the exclusions will be unlawful. This analysis makes little sense, as an employer’s state property interests are irrelevant to the primary labor issue in these cases—whether the exclusion interferes with employees’ federal labor rights. Employees will tend to view hostile or discriminatory exclusions of organizing activity as coercive, whether or not …

Desperate Cities: Eminent Domain And Economic Development In A Post-Kelo World, Asmara Tekle Johnson

ExpressO

Kelo v. City of New London unleashed an unprecedented legislative response when the Court upheld the use of eminent domain for private economic development as consistent with the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. By exhibiting an extreme deference to the legislative branch and failing to consider the current model of economic development, in which “desperate” cities have seen their economic bases contract and have embarked on fervent urban revitalization campaigns as a result, the Kelo Court failed to take into account the immense influence that large corporate interests wield in the legislature. This influence is generally exercised to the …

What's The Use? The Court Takes A Stance On The Public Use Doctrine In Kelo V. City Of New London, Randy J. Bates Ii

Mercer Law Review

By a 5-4 vote in Kelo v. City of New London, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of public takings for the purpose of private economic development under the Fifth Amendment's Public Use Clause. In holding that the takings were valid, the Court concluded that it must defer to the state legislature's judgment because the takings were beneficial to the public and were within the state's police power.

Exactions And Burden Distribution In Takings Law, Carlos A. Ball, Laurie Reynolds

William & Mary Law Review

In the last several decades, there has been a marked shift in local government financing away from the use of general revenue taxes and toward nontax revenue-raising devices such as exactions. This Article argues that the Supreme Court, in its exaction cases, missed a golden opportunity to slow this troubling trend toward the greater privatization of local government financing. In addition, it explains how the Court's exaction cases are inconsistent with the goal of burden distribution as reflected in the Court's takings jurisprudence. The Article proposes that the constitutional standard applied to exactions be reformulated to account explicitly for burden …

Modularity In Contracts: Boilerplate And Information Flow, Henry E. Smith

Michigan Law Review

Contractual boilerplate is a little like property. Such a statement might seem like a category mistake. After all, contractual boilerplate language is part of contracts, which, unlike property, are freely customizable by the parties. Contracts create rights between those parties, not against the world at large. Nor do people who devise new boilerplate terms usually have intellectual property in the provisions themselves. I will argue that, in an interesting and overlooked way, boilerplate is the first way station on the road from contract to property. In particular, boilerplate, like all legal communication, is the result of striking a trade-off between …

People As Property: On Being A Resource And A Person, Jedediah S. Purdy

ExpressO

Property law facilitates the efficient use and allocation of scarce resources and recognizes and protects aspects of personhood – the bases of dignity and self-respect. Human beings, who are both resources for one another and the persons whose moral importance the legal system seeks to protect. This article explores how property law has addressed this paradox in the past and how might in the future.

I analyze two bodies of nineteenth-century law where the paradox was highlighted: the legal regimes of labor discipline for slaves in the antebellum South and for free workers in the laissez-faire Lochner era. The law …

Conservation Cartels: How Competition Policy Conflicts With Environmental Protection, Jonathan H. Adler

Faculty Publications

The alleged purpose of antitrust law is to improve consumer welfare by proscribing actions and arrangements that reduce output and increase prices. Conservation seeks to improve human welfare by maximizing the long-term productive use of natural resources, a goal that often requires limiting consumption to sustainable levels. While conservation measures might increase prices in the short run, they enhance consumer welfare by increasing long-term production and ensuring the availability of valued resources over time. That is true whether the restrictions are imposed by a private conservation cartel or a government agency. Insofar as antitrust law fails to take this into …

Free And Green: A New Approach To Environmental Protection, Jonathan H. Adler

Faculty Publications

Most Americans consider themselves environmentalists, yet most experts are dissatisfied with existing environmental regulations, which are both inefficient and inequitable. Worse, many don't serve environmental goals. This article outlines an alternative approach to environmental policy based on market institutions and property rights rather than central-planning and bureaucratic control. The aim is both to improve environmental protection and lessen the costs ? Economic and otherwise ? Of achieving environmental goals. It seeks to ensure that Americans' environmental values are advanced without sacrificing the individual liberties the American government was created to protect.

The problem with current regulatory approaches is not merely …

Making Main Street Legal Again: The Smartcode Solution To Sprawl, Chad Emerson

ExpressO

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Summary Of In Re Resort At Summerlin Litigation, 122 Nev. Adv. Op. 15, 127 P.3d 1076, Bryan Lindsey

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Appeal and cross-appeal from a district court order granting a holder of a deed of trust priority over holders of mechanic’s liens but denying deed of trust holder’s request for costs.

Summary Of Int’L Fidelity Ins. Co. V. State Of Nevada, 122 Nev. Adv. Op. 5, 126 P.3d 1133, Leanne Hoskins

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The proceeding before the Court was a jurisdictional screening of eight consolidated appeals from district court orders denying motions to remit surety bonds. The Court held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear an appeal from any order entered in an ancillary bond proceeding and dismissed the appeals.

Land Titling: A Mode Of Privatization With The Potential To Deepen Democracy, Bernadette Atuahene

All Faculty Scholarship

Land titling is a form of privatization in that public assets are transferred to private families and individuals. This is unlike other forms of privatization, however, because there is a systematic diffusion of economic and decision making power down to indigent populations rather than out of the country or up to its local elites. In light of this uniqueness, the question I will grapple with in this Article is, can property ownership, achieved through land titling programs, bolster democracy? First, using Peru as an example, I explain the context that necessitated the creation of land titling and the process by …

Tratado De Derecho Arrendaticio Inmobiliario (Tomo Ii), Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca

Faculty Books

La ley de arrendamientos inmobiliarios plantea lo relacionado al campo de aplicación, relación y garantías arrendaticias, terminaciones de las relaciones arrendaticias, la prórroga legal, como tópicos que generan un perfil propio de lo que llamaríamos Derecho Arrendaticio en sustitución del antiguo concepto inquilinario.

Still Crazy After All These Years: Landlords And Tenants And The Law Of Torts, Lawrence R. Mcdonough

William Mitchell Law Review

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The Robin Hood Antithesis – Robbing From The Poor To Give To The Rich: How Eminent Domain Is Used To Take Property In Violation Of The Fifth Amendment, Daniel C. Orlaskey

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Water Rights As Property In Tulare V. United States, David B. Anderson

McGeorge Law Review

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Introduction: The Impact Of Kelo V. City Of New London On Eminent Domain, John G. Sprankling

McGeorge Law Review

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Justice Thomas' Kelo Dissent, Or History As A Grab Bag Of Principles, David L. Breau

McGeorge Law Review

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Kelo Legacy: Political Accountability, Not Legislation, Is The Cure, The, Elisabeth Sperow

McGeorge Law Review

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Toward A More Just Compensation In Eminent Domain, Dale Orthner

McGeorge Law Review

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Locational Justice: Race, Class, And The Grassroots Protest Of Property Takings, Judith E. Koons

Faculty Scholarship

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Coastal Kingdom, A New Vehicle For Teaching Property: How I Became Queen For More Than A Day, Ann R. Shorstein

St. Thomas Law Review

The creation of Coastal Kingdom, as described in the following sections, is my attempt to maximize the limited time that the students spend in a first year survey course by emphasizing infusion and rigor.

Navigating Residential Attorney Approvals: Finding A Better Judicial North Star, 39 J. Marshall L. Rev. 171 (2006), Debra Pogrund Stark

UIC Law Review

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Is The Suite Life Truly Sweet? The Property Rights Luxury Box Owners Actually Acquire, Amanda Schlager

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Part I of this Note offers a look at the rising trend of luxury boxes, with a discussion of what separates a license from a lease. Part II will look at the property rights frequently given to one who "leases" a luxury box and will analyze what interest in land he actually receives. Part III presents the implications of misnomers in luxury box leasing and presents possible repercussions for both luxury box owners and those to whom the owners would lease them. It also suggests a better method for creating and governing these arrangements. Finally, it asserts that because of …

The History Of Slave Marriage In The United States, 39 J. Marshall L. Rev. 299 (2006), Darlene C. Goring

UIC Law Review

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Being Daphne's Mom: An Argument For Valuing Companion Animals As Companions, 39 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1453 (2006), Vasiliki Agorianitis

UIC Law Review

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Hurricane Katrina And The Toxic Torts Implications Of Environmental Injustice In New Orleans, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2006), L. Darnell Weeden

UIC Law Review

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Disclosure Protection: Franchises And Food Court Leases, James R. Cataland

Cleveland State Law Review

The shopping center industry continues to enjoy relative freedom from governmental regulation and operates within the framework of a long term, well established body of favorable commercial landlord/tenant law. Conversely, certain "'unfair and deceptive practices" in the sale of franchises have led to comprehensive consumer protection legislation at both the state and federal level. In 1978, the Federal Trade Commission promulgated a series of uniform disclosure requirements that a franchise or business opportunity seller must make when soliciting a prospective buyer. Often, the prospective buyer of a fast food franchise is an unsophisticated husband and wife, owner/operator, commonly referred to …

Decisionmaking And The Limits Of Disclosure: The Problem Of Predatory Lending: Price, Lauren E. Willis

Maryland Law Review

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