Governing The Post-Socialist Transitional Commons: A Case From Rural China,
2013
Duke Law School
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”,
2013
Duke Law School
Some Pluralism About Pluralism: A Comment On Hanoch Dagan’S “Pluralism And Perfectionism In Private Law”, Jedediah Purdy
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
When Retreat Is The Best Option: Flood Insurance After Biggert-Waters And Other Climate Change Puzzles, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 695 (2013),
2013
UIC School of Law
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
No abstract provided.
Minding The Court: Enhancing The Decision-Making Process,
2013
University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
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),
2013
John Marshall Law School
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),
2013
John Marshall Law School
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
No abstract provided.
Property Rights And Modern Energy,
2013
University of Missouri School of Law
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,
2013
University of Missouri School of Law
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.
Dysfunctional Contracts And The Laws And Practices That Enable Them: An Empirical Analysis, 46 Ind. L. Rev. 797 (2013),
2013
John Marshall Law School
Dysfunctional Contracts And The Laws And Practices That Enable Them: An Empirical Analysis, 46 Ind. L. Rev. 797 (2013), Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin, Eileen Linnabery
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
While many courts refuse to strike down these clauses under the unconscionability test, this Article argues that the results from the Remedies Experiment should lead courts to adopt a different set of tests for ruling on the enforceability of limitation-of-remedy clauses in home purchase contracts. Part I of this Article highlights the relevant results from two empirical studies Professor Stark conducted regarding major problems with the fairness of purchase agreement forms used by residential real estate developers in Illinois. Part I also discusses the lack of home purchaser understanding of key relevant laws and legal documents examined in an empirical …
Eminent Domain For The Seizure Of Underwater Mortgages,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Eminent Domain For The Seizure Of Underwater Mortgages, Sarah Thompson
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Caveat
Like many cities in the United States, Richmond, California suffered greatly from the recent mortgage crisis. The foreclosure crisis hit Richmond hard in 2009, when more than 2,000 homes in Richmond went into foreclosure. This figure is especially shocking given that there were 18,659 owner-occupied housing units in the city at that time. In 2012, the city saw an additional 914 foreclosures and a foreclosure rate of thirty out of 1,000 homes (well above the national average of thirteen of every 1,000 homes). Today, it is reported that nearly forty-six percent of homes in Richmond are “underwater,” meaning that what …
Cross-Border Collective Redress And Individual Participatory Rights: Quo Vadis?,
2013
University of Missouri School of Law
Cross-Border Collective Redress And Individual Participatory Rights: Quo Vadis?, S. I. Strong
Faculty Publications
This article fills a critical gap in the commentary by undertaking a rights-based analysis of the various issues that arise in cases involving large-scale international litigation, focusing in particular on the Brussels I Regulation and what may be called ‘individual participatory rights’. In so doing, the discussion considers the nature and scope of individual participatory rights in collective litigation as well the ways in which these rights should be weighed and considered. Although the analysis is set in the context of European procedural law, this discussion is of equal relevance to parties outside the European Union, either because they will …
The Paradoxes Of Restitution,
2013
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
The Paradoxes Of Restitution, Mark A. Edwards
Faculty Scholarship
Restitution following mass dispossession is often considered both ideal and impossible. Why? This article identifies two previously unnamed paradoxes that undermine the possibility of restitution.
First, both dispossession and restitution depend on the social construction of rights-worthiness. Over time, people once considered unworthy of property rights ‘become’ worthy of them. However, time also corrodes the practicality and moral weight of restitution claims. By the time the dispossessed ‘become’ worthy of property rights, restitution claims are no longer practically or morally viable. This is the time-unworthiness paradox.
Second, restitution claims are undermined by the concept of collective responsibility. People are sometimes …
Courts, Capacity And Engagement: Lessons From Hlophe V. City Of Johannesburg,
2013
Cleveland State University
Courts, Capacity And Engagement: Lessons From Hlophe V. City Of Johannesburg, Brian E. Ray
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The case was one of the first applying the Constitutional Court’s holding in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Blue Moonlight Properties 39 (Pty) Ltd and Another, (2) BCLR 150 (CC) (1 December 2011) (Blue Moonlight) that municipalities have an independent obligation to plan and budget for the emergency accommodation needs of people evicted from private property. The City also was the defendant in that case, and so its repeated failures to accommodate the occupants in Hlophe demonstrated a broader failure to implement the planning, budget and policy requirements that flowed from Blue Moonlight. Judge Satchwell recognised this and issued …
Why Is Property So Hard?,
2013
St. Mary's University School of Law
Why Is Property So Hard?, Chad J. Pomeroy
Faculty Articles
This paper seeks to flesh out the heterogeneity and inherent difficulty of property law and to analyze it in depth. Part I begins this examination by setting up a taxonomy for property law and then describing the heterogeneity inherent in that context and the costs associated with that variability. Real estate law has continually evolved throughout American history — changing from a small, local business to a large, national one, spanning jurisdictional lines and limits — and it is the haphazard and varied nature of this evolution that has created this difficulty and cost. This is notable when contrasted with …
The Evolving Role For Transactional Attorneys Responding To Client Needs In Adapting To Climate Change, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 543 (2013),
2013
John Marshall Law School
The Evolving Role For Transactional Attorneys Responding To Client Needs In Adapting To Climate Change, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 543 (2013), Celeste M. Hammond
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Insurance And Climate Change, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 719 (2013),
2013
UIC School of Law
Insurance And Climate Change, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 719 (2013), Joseph Macdougald, Peter Kochenburger
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Forty (Plus) Years After The Revolution: Observations On The Implied Warranty Of Habitability,
2013
Mississippi College School of Law
Forty (Plus) Years After The Revolution: Observations On The Implied Warranty Of Habitability, Donald E. Campbell
Journal Articles
The implied warranty of habitability has been called the “most prominent result” of the revolution in tenant rights that arose in the 1960s and 1970s. How has the revolution fared after forty-plus years? How have courts responded to the shift from examining the landlord-tenant relationship under the doctrines of contract in the place of property law? This article examines some of the issues that courts are addressing today with regard to the implied warranty of habitability. The article will begin with a historical discussion of the warranty’s rise to provide context for how truly revolutionary its adoption was. Then, jumping …
Why (And How) Conservatives Should Support Smart Growth,
2013
Touro Law Center
Why (And How) Conservatives Should Support Smart Growth, Michael Lewyn
Scholarly Works
Conservatives have generally been critical of the smart growth movement, because they often fear that smart growth is synonymous with overregulation of land use. This article explains why sprawl threatens conservative values, and suggests conservative-friendly smart growth policies that can both make government less intrusive and make America more walkable.
Conservation Easements And The "Term Creep" Problem,
2013
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Conservation Easements And The "Term Creep" Problem, Michael Allan Wolf
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Essay first discusses the “term creep” problem that has long plagued the Anglo-American common law of real property, that is, the tendency of common law courts (and in turn commentators and legislators) to use the same label to describe two or more conceptually discrete, though related, concepts. The confusion between easements of the “traditional” and “conservation” varieties is just one in a long line of situations in which the decision to allow often significantly dissimilar concepts to share the same name has led to unfortunate consequences. The second part of the Essay explains the substantive nature of the hybrids …
The Increasing Privatization Of Environmental Permitting,
2013
University of Miami School of Law
The Increasing Privatization Of Environmental Permitting, Jessica Owley
Articles
No abstract provided.
