Spring 2015 Course Schedule

Property (LAW-518-004)
Rosser

Meets: 01:00 PM - 02:50 PM (TTh) - Room 101

Enrolled: 95 / Limit: 95

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Description

Property Law is the study of the acquisition, use, and limitations of property. The class shows how property rights come into existence; the advantages and disadvantages of property rights; the ways in which property rights protect the rights of owners, neighbors, and non-owners; how property law allows for property rights to be split among multiple parties and through time; and the power of the government over private property as well as limits on that power.

Textbooks and Other Materials

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The book for this class is Dukeminier, Krier, Alexander, Schill & Strahilevitz, Property (8th Ed., 2014) NOTE: The publisher is offering the textbook in two formats, as a traditional textbook or what it is calling a "connected casebook." You are free to pick which option you prefer but with the connected casebook you will not have a copy of the book at the end of the semester to keep or to sell to future law students (indeed, most professors seem to be actively discouraging students from going the connected casebook route because they view it as the worst option and I agree with their assessment). But for class purposes, what I care about is that you come to class prepared, having read the material in full from whatever option you choose.

First Class Readings

For the first class: Acquisition by Discovery & Capture DKASS 1-40 myWCL: Indian Title Search For the second class: Theories of Property Rights Creation and Acquisition by Creation I DKASS 40-76 optional on myWCL: Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons

Syllabus

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