Property Law

For more than a century, the vast lands of Northern Ontario have been shared among the governments of Canada, Ontario, and the First Nations who si...

Nearly all communities are exclusive in some way. When race or wealth is the basis of exclusion, the homogeneity of a neighborhood, workplace, or c...

In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them t...

On June 23, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in the Fort Trumbu...

Planning enforcement is one of the most diverse and complex areas of law. It is primarily concerned with the taking of steps against development ca...

Until now, an approach to land use management planning that not only addresses economic issues, but also environmental concerns and health issues o...

Here is one of the first books specifically geared for legal practitioners involved in liability arising out of participation in professional and a...

A startling account of personal data dossiers and the newest grave threat to privacy Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databas...

In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies a...

In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies a...

Are rent controls and zoning regulations unconstitutional? Should the Supreme Court strike down the Endangered Species Act when its administration ...

The history of the American West is a history of struggles over land, and none has inspired so much passion and misunderstanding as the conflict be...

Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This ...

Medieval Douai was one of the wealthiest cloth towns of Flanders, and it left an enormous archive documenting the personal financial affairs of its...

Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy t...

'A delicious book.' Jared DiamondWho controls the space around an aeroplane seat: you or the person behind you trying to work on their laptop? Who ...

Scientific advances and economic forces have converged to create something unthinkable for much of human history: a robust market in human body pro...

From the bestselling author of For Common Things, a brilliant and ambitious rethinking of the meaning of property in democratic society In his late...

How the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common law   Appointing a parson to the local church following a vacancy—an...

Governments and development agencies devote considerable resources to building institutions to protect property rights. When the owners of property...

How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required...

The first attempt to address comparative property law in a common integrative framework, this study discusses German, Italian, French, American, an...

Examining a series of court decisions made during the 1980s regarding the legal claims of several Native American tribes who attempted to protect a...

This edited volume is a comprehensive examination of the legal framework in which environmental policy is fashioned in the major English-speaking f...