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Consumerism And Land Sales , Leonard Levin

Pepperdine Law Review

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It's All Mine - Or At Least Part Of It Is: A California Look At Property Apportionment Between The Families Of An Interstate And An Intestate's Predeceased Spouse, Robert G. Popovich

Pepperdine Law Review

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Journalists, Trespass, And Officials: Closing The Door On Florida Publishing Co. V. Fletcher , Kent R. Middleton

Pepperdine Law Review

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Extreme Rubber-Stamping: The Fee-To-Trust Process Of The Indian Reorganization Act Of 1934, Kelsey J. Waples

Pepperdine Law Review

In recognition of the massive loss of Indian territory since the European “discovery” of America, the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 provides a process whereby Indian tribes can expand their reservations by applying to have additional land placed into trust for their benefit. This process, known as the fee-to-trust process, is the subject of fervent opposition by many affected communities because once taken into trust for a tribe, such land is no longer subject to state and local taxation or zoning, planning, and other regulatory controls. Accordingly, this Comment explores the efficacy of the fee-to-trust process by analyzing the Pacific …

Introduction To Property, History & Climate Change In The Former Colonies Symposium Special Issue, Jill M. Fraley

Scholarly Articles

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The Reciprocity Of Search, Tun-Jen Chiang

Vanderbilt Law Review

The discussion of search in patent law always focuses on one particular model of search: producers of commercial products are supposed to identify the patents that their products might infringe and then negotiate a license from the owners of those patents. This one-sided view of search responsibility is most evident in doctrine. As a doctrinal matter, patent law imposes an absolute duty on the producer of a commercial product to find all relevant patents and obtain licenses from each of the owners before commencing manufacture. Failure to meet this duty is punished by liability for infringement, where ignorance of the …

The Property Jurisprudence Of Justice Kennedy, John G. Sprankling

McGeorge Law Review

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“But My Lease Isn’T Up Yet!”: Finding Fault With “No-Fault” Evictions, Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod

Faculty Publications

Historically, tenants could be evicted when their actions put them “at-fault.” Grounds for “at-fault” eviction (i.e., evictions for cause) include a tenant’s failure to pay rent, a tenant’s holding over after termination of the lease, a tenant’s material noncompliance with the lease agreement, and a tenant’s failure to maintain the premises materially affecting health and safety. Recently, some landlords have been evicting tenants for no fault of their own.

This article focuses on three reasons for attempted “no-fault” evictions: foreclosure of the premises, proposed sale of the premises, or intended re-occupancy by the landlord. Part II of this article provides …

Dirty Remics, Revisited, David J. Reiss, Bradley T. Borden

Faculty Scholarship

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Housing Voucher Mobility: An Overlooked Fair Housing Issue, 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1089 (2013), Alexander Polikoff

UIC Law Review

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Real Estate Law And Practice: Symposium Issue Foreword/Introduction, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev Xxiii (2013), Virginia Harding

UIC Law Review

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An Essay Adapted From A Presentation Entitled "Adaptation To Climate Change," 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 487 (2013), Rosina Bierbaum

UIC Law Review

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Climate Change Adaptation And Land Use: Exploring The Federal Role, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 509 (2013), Alice Kaswan

UIC Law Review

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Using Development Financing Tools To Help Cover Costs Of Adapting To Climate Change In Tornado Alley And Beyond, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 609 (2013), Carl Circo

UIC Law Review

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Local Governments Feel The Heat: Principles For Local Government Adaptation To The Impacts Of Climate Change, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 635 (2013), Sean Hecht

UIC Law Review

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Funding Adaptation, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 657 (2013), Jonathan Rosenbloom

UIC Law Review

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Putting A Price On Friendship: Examining The Ownership Battle Between A Business' Social Media Networks, And The Humans That Operate Them, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 745 (2013), Michael Furlong

UIC Law Review

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Run Through The Wringer: How Cleaning Industry Franchisors Exploit Franchisees' Hope For An American Dream, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 827 (2013), John Dunne

UIC Law Review

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Conservation Easements: Design Flaws, Enforcement Challenges, And Reform, Roger Colinvaux

Scholarly Articles

The charitable deduction for conservation easements promises a conservation benefit, lasting forever. Millions of acres have been protected by deductible conservation easements. On average over $1.5 billion are claimed in easement contributions each year, not including corporate contributions. The deduction, however, has serious problems. As use of the incentive has grown, doubts about the public benefit conveyed by conservation easements and significant enforcement difficulties have led to increased scrutiny of land trusts and to a growing chorus of calls for reform of the tax benefit and state laws governing easements. This Essay argues that it is because the tax incentive …

Eminent Domain: The Solution To The Foreclosure Crisis Or Overstepping Government Boundaries, Anne T. T. Jensen

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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The Global Land Rush: Markets, Rights, And The Politics Of Food, Smita Narula

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

In the past five years, interest in purchasing and leasing agricultural land in developing countries has skyrocketed. This trend, which was facilitated by the 2008 food crisis, is led by state and private investors, both domestic and foreign. Investors are responding to a variety of global forces: Some are securing their own food supply, while others are capitalizing on land as an increasingly promising source of financial returns. Proponents argue that these investments can support economic development in host states while boosting global food production. But critics charge that these “land grabs” disregard land users' rights and further marginalize already …

Dreading He Knew Not What: Masculinities, Structural Spaces, Law And The Gothic In The Castle Of Otranto, Pride And Prejudice, And Wuthering Heights, Samantha E. Morse

Pitzer Senior Theses

This essay investigates the integral linkages between Gothic spaces and Gothic masculinities in three texts: Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847). At the core of this examination is architecture, or more specifically, the physical constructions and built environments that comprise a man’s property. I explore how a man uses his property to construct, legitimize, and perform his identity. In the Female Gothic, the home is a place of anxiety for women, where patriarchal dominance and violence reign to constrain female agency. I argue that the home is …

Governing The Post-Socialist Transitional Commons: A Case From Rural China, Shitong Qiao

Faculty Scholarship

When the collective declines, who manages the collective-owned land? When the socialist state fails, who possesses the state-owned river? This Article concerns the governance of land and natural resources that are still owned by collectives or the state in rural China. No effective community governance has evolved in rural China to fill the authority vacuum left by the dissolution of the people’s commune system. As a result, such land and natural resources have become real commons. In describing these I use the term “transitional commons” to indicate both the crucial influence of the transitional political legal environment in their emergence …

Some Pluralism About Pluralism: A Comment On Hanoch Dagan’S “Pluralism And Perfectionism In Private Law”, Jedediah Purdy

Faculty Scholarship

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When Retreat Is The Best Option: Flood Insurance After Biggert-Waters And Other Climate Change Puzzles, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 695 (2013), Robert Verchick, Lynsey Johnston

UIC Law Review

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Minding The Court: Enhancing The Decision-Making Process, Pamela Casey, Kevin Burke, Steve Leben

Faculty Works

A compelling and growing body of research from the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience provides important insights about how we process information and make decisions. This research has great potential significance for judges, who spend much of their time making decisions of great importance to others. For most judges, this research literature is not part of their judicial education. This article reviews cutting edge research about decision making and discusses its implications for helping judges and those who work with them produce fair processes and just outcomes. It builds on a 2007 American Judges Association paper that encouraged judges …

A Uniform Perpetuities Reform Act, 16 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 89 (2013), Scott Andrew Shepard

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

For centuries the Rule Against Perpetuities provided protection against a pair of dangers: that important stocks of property would become, effectively, permanently inalienable as a result of perpetual conditional gifts; and that the dead would be permitted to control the destinies of the living by placing permanent conditions on the fixed stock of available wealth (i.e., land wealth). In recent decades, though, the states have increasingly abandoned the Rule and its protections. As of 2011 all states have migrated, at least in part, beyond the traditional "twenty-one-years- plus-life-in-being" rule, and more than half have actually or effectively abolished their rules, …

The Lawyer Who Built Titletown: Gerald Clifford, The Green Bay Packers And Community Ownership, 14 U. Denv. Sports & Ent. L.J. 3 (2013), Maureen Collins

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Property Rights And Modern Energy, Troy A. Rule

Faculty Publications

This short article, written for a joint program of the Natural Resources and Energy Law and Property Law Sections of the American Association of Law Schools at the Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting, offers some general guidelines for adjusting property rights regimes to accommodate new energy innovations. This article suggests that, when feasible, policy actions that merely clarify ambiguities in existing law are often the simplest and most cost-effective way to respond when important technological advancements place pressure on longstanding property structures. When such policies are inadequate or unavailable, the most equitable and efficient adjustments to property arrangements tend to be …

Cross-Border Collective Redress In The European Union: Constitutional Rights In The Face Of The Brussels I Regulation, S. I. Strong

Faculty Publications

This article considers the various issues associated with the creation of a system of collective relief in a region that has traditionally been hostile to the provision of large-scale private litigation. In so doing, the discussion focuses on the clash between certain constitutional rights relating to the ability of the plaintiff to choose the time, place and manner of bringing suit and the European Union’s primary form of legislation concerning cross-border procedure, Council Regulation 44/2001 on jurisdiction and on recognition and enforcement of civil and commercial judgments, commonly known as the Brussels I Regulation.