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Panorama - International Perspectives: Kathleen Curran, Director Of Casa Nuevo Horizonte, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, James Hagy

Rooftops Project

In this first of our series of international perspectives, Kathleen Curran relfects on the important role that physical space has played in her charitable mission in Bolivia supporting promising students seeking an advanced education in a setting of poverty.

Perspectives - Alice Korngold Of Korngold Consulting, James Hagy

Rooftops Project

Alice Korngold of Korngold Consulting presents her views on optimizing the match between not-for-profit organizations and prospective board member volunteers.

Perspectives - Steve Marcussen And Jonathan Sklar Of Cushman & Wakefield, James Hagy

Rooftops Project

Steve Marcussen and Jonathan Sklar of Cushman & Wakefield’s Los Angeles office share thoughts on how not-for-profit organizations can be more effective with their real estate assets and in implementing projects with outside real estate brokerage advisors.

Profile - Fernbank Museum Of Natural History, James Hagy

Rooftops Project

Any natural history or science museum would be proud to haev the diversity of collections and programmatic resources found at Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, Georgia. But few if any can law claim, as Fernbank does, to having “grown out of a forest.” Professor James Hagy, Director of The Rooftops Project, talks wiht Aneli Nugteren, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Fernbank Museum, about its unique campus, mission, and facilities.

Profile - The California Endowment’S Center For Healthy Communities, James Hagy

Rooftops Project

When the California Endowment planned new headquarters space for its own operations, its vision also included creating conference space suitable for events by other not-for-profits, opportunities for formal and informal collaboration among not-for-profits with compatible missions, and even incubator spaces for smaller organizations in need of an office presence. In this second article in his series looking at not-for-profits as urban neighbors, Professor James Hagy, Director of The Rooftops Project, talks with Anne-Marie Jones, Director of the Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities, and Edward de la Torre, its Director of Facilities and Events.

It Takes A Village: Municipal Condemnation Proceedings And Public/Private Partnerships For Mortgage Loan Modification, Value Preservation, And Local Economic Recovery, Robert C. Hockett

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Respected real estate analysts forecast that the U.S. is now poised to experience a renewed round of home mortgage foreclosures over the coming six years. Up to eleven million underwater mortgages will be affected. Neither our families, our neighborhoods, nor our state and national economies can bear a resumption of crisis on this order of magnitude.

I argue that ongoing and self-worsening slump in the primary and secondary mortgage markets is rooted in a host of recursive collective action challenges structurally akin to those that brought on the real estate bubble and bust in the first place. Collective action problems …

Testing The Reach Of Ucc Article 9: The Question Of Tax Credit Collateral In Secured Transactions, Christopher K. Odinet

Faculty Scholarship

This Article addresses the open question related to the use of tax credits as a source of secured capital. It first lays a foundation by analyzing the theoretical underpinnings of the UCC’s category for general intangibles and shows how classification as a general intangible can and should comport with the legal substance of tax credits as a form of secured financing. The work also investigates the theory and nature that forms the basis of tax credits and their economic value. Next, the Article provides an overview of the relatively meager case law on tax credit financing and explains how courts …

Summary Of Gold Ridge Partners V. Sierra Pacific Power Company, 128 Nev. Adv. Op. 47, Adam Tully

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Court considered a motion to remand a case on appeal to the district court. Specifically, the Court weighed whether an eminent domain plaintiff could abandon its claim after the plaintiff paid just compensation and the district court entered a final condemnation order, but before the resolution of a pending appeal. In reaching its conclusions, the Court examined when a “final judgment” for the purposes of N.R.S. § 37.180(1) takes place, when an eminent domain taking is completed under the Constitution,2 and whether a district court maintains limited jurisdiction to dismiss an eminent domain claim on appeal if the plaintiff …

Eminently Reasonable, David J. Reiss

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

Using the power of eminent domain to restructure underwater mortgages is constitutional, beneficial and administratively feasible.

Comment On The Use Of Eminent Domain To Restructure Performing Loans, David J. Reiss

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

There has been a lot of fear-mongering by financial industry trade groups over the widespread use of eminent domain to residential mortgages. While there may be legitimate business reasons to oppose its use, its inconsistency with Takings jurisprudence should not be one of them. To date, the federal government’s responses to the current crisis in the housing markets have been at cross purposes, half-hearted and self-defeating. So it is not surprising that local governments are attempting to fashion solutions to the problem with the tools at their disposal. Courts should, and likely will, give these democratically-implemented and constitutionally-sound solutions a …

Ethnic And Racial Minorities, The Indigent, The Elderly, And Eminent Domain: Assessing The Virginia Model Of Reform, Jim Bailey

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal, Volume 1, William & Mary Law School

Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal

Comparative Property Rights

October 14-15, 2011

Panel 1: Legal Protection of Property Rights: A Comparative Look

Panel 2: Reflections on Justice O'Connor's Important Property Rights Decisions

Panel 3: Property as an Instrument of Social Policy

Panel 4: Culture and Property

Panel 5: Property as an Economic Institution

Panel 6: Property Rights and the Environment

Delinquent And Non-Entered Lands And Due Process, John W. Fisher Ii

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Utah's Enabling Act And Congress's Enclave Clause Authority: Federalism Implications Of A Renewed State Sovereignty Movement, Spencer Driscoll

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Informal Institutions And Property Rights, Lan Cao

Faculty Publications

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Housing And Development Board Flats, Trust And Other Equitable Doctrines, Hang Wu Tang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Although 85% of the population of Singapore reside in Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats, this area of the law remains largely under investigated. A perennially contentious issue is the complex interplay between equitable doctrines and the Housing and Development Act. In this article, the author reviews the jurisprudence pertaining to express trust, resulting trust and common intention constructive trust and the HDB flat. This article will also examine the applicability of other equitable doctrines such as donatio mortis causa and proprietary estoppel in relation to the HDB flat. In particular, this article will explore the applicability of the common …

Once A Failed Remic, Never A Remic, Bradley T. Borden, David J. Reiss

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

Investors in mortgage-backed securities, built on the shoulders of the tax-advantaged Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (“REMIC”), may be facing extraordinary tax losses because of how bankers and lawyers structured (or failed to structure) these securities. This calamity is compounded by the fact that those professional advisors should have known that the REMICs they created were flawed from the start.

Property Rights For Natural Resources Management In Indonesia: Have They Been Ruled Unconstitutional?, Sarah Waddell

Indonesia Law Review

A new property right known as the coastal waters commercial use right (Hak Pengusahaan Pengairan Pesisir (HP-3)) introduced by Law No. 27 of 2007 regarding the Management of Coastal and Small Island Areas has been ruled inoperative by the Constitutional Court. The decision raises a question as to whether the door has been closed to marketbased instruments that rely on property rights as a policy tool in natural resources management. This concern is relevant as legal developments in natural resources law internationally have moved away from traditional forms of regulation to focus on the creation of new statutory property rights …

Book Review: Who Owns The Moon?: Extraterrestrial Aspects Of Land And Mineral Resources Ownership, F. Tim Knight

Librarian Publications & Presentations

This is a review of Who Owns the Moon?: Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership by Virgiliu Pop (ISBN: 978-1-4020-9134-6)

Property Before Property: Romanizing The English Law Of Land, Thomas J. Mcsweeney

Buffalo Law Review

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Property Before Property: Romanizing The English Law Of Land, Thomas J. Mcsweeney

Faculty Publications

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The Abnormalcy Of Normal Delay, Kimberly Horsley

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Baltimore After The War Of 1812: Where Robert Mills Met His Waterloo And When James A. Buchanan Broke The Bank, Garrett Power

Faculty Scholarship

In 1815 Baltimore City was boom town. Its militiamen had repulsed the British sea invasion and presaged an end to the War of 1812. Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815 signaled an end to European wars. Freedom of the seas had been restored. The Baltimore “Clipper” was the best sailing ship on the ocean. Baltimore looked to become the country’s leading exporter of grain, flour, and tobacco. Merchant James A. Buchanan, a partner in one of the country’s greatest shipping firms, had been named President of the Baltimore Branch of the Second National Bank of the United States. Civic leaders …

Comment On The Federal Housing Finance Agency’S Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017, David J. Reiss

Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers

This is a comment upon Performance Goal 4.3 from the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017. Performance Goal 4.3 addresses the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as the future of the infrastructure of the residential housing finance market. This comment will address the future of Fannie and Freddie after they exit conservatorship. Once analyzed in the context of regulatory theory, Fannie and Freddie’s future seems clear. They should be privatized so that they can compete on an even playing field with other financial institutions, and their public functions should be assumed by pure …

Terrace V. Thompson And The Legacy Of Manifest Destiny, Jean Stefancic

Nevada Law Journal

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The Probate Definition Of Family: A Proposal For Guided Discretion In Intestacy, Susan N. Gary

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Intestacy statutes may not match the wishes of many people who die intestate. Changes to the Uniform Probate Code (UPC) include or exclude potential takers, as the drafters attempt to bring the UPC provisions closer to the intent of more intestate decedents. As the UPC tries to fine-tune the intestacy statutes, however, family circumstances continue to get more and more complicated. Families headed by unmarried couples, blended families with children from multiple marriages, and families in which adults raise children who are not legally theirs, have become commonplace. For some decedents, non-family friends and caregivers may be more important than …

Governance Property, Gregory S. Alexander

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Exclusion theorists of property think that the concept of property properly concerns only the relations between owners and nonowners — that is, the external relationships of owners, or what we might call the “external life” of property. From this perspective, the internal relationships among property stakeholders — the “internal life” of property — are irrelevant from a conceptual point of view. I argue that this is a distorted and misleading view of property. To reveal this misconception, I distinguish between two types of property, which I call exclusion property and governance property. Governance property, not exclusion property, is the dominant …

The Economics Of Necessity, Keith N. Hylton

Faculty Scholarship

The necessity doctrine aligns the private and the social incentive for a property possessor to take a defensive action that prevents an invasion of his property from occurring. The model described here is also applicable to self-help in contracts.

The Fallacy Behind The Inflated Flats - Will Standardizing Terms Make Residential-Market Prices In China Collapse?, Tsui Tat Chee

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Causation When Determining The Proper Defendant In A Takings Lawsuit, Jan G. Laitos

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.