A Property Anthology, Second Edition (1997)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

PART I INTRODUCTION: POSSESSION, NOTICE AND OWNERSHIP AS DEFINING ELEMENTS OF PROPERTY

R. H. Helmholz, Wrongful Possession of Chattels: Hornbook Law and Case Law, 80 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1221 (1986)

Carol M. Rose, Possession as the Origin of Property, 52 U. Chi. L. Rev. 73 (1985)

PART II PROPERTY OVER TIME: THE CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF PROPERTY AS A POLITICAL INSTITUTION

A. CIVIC REPUBLICANISM AND PROPERTY IN THE FOUNDING DECADES

1. Property, Politics and Gender in the Early Republic

Stanley N. Katz, Thomas Jefferson and the Right to Property in Revolutionary America, 19 J. L. & Econ. 467 (1976)

Letter From John Adams to James Sullivan, May 26, 1776

Robert J. Steinfeld, Property and Suffrage in the Early American Republic, 41 Stan. L. Rev. 335 (1989)

Jennifer Nedelsky, Law, Boundaries and the Bounded Self, in Law and the Order of Culture 162 (1991)

2. A Major Property Development of the Early Republic: Exclusion of Native Americans From Republican Concepts of Property

Robert Williams, The American Indian in Western Legal Thought (1990)

Philip P. Frickey, Marshalling Past and Present: Colonialism, Constitutionalism, and Interpretation in Federal Indian Law, 107 Harv. L. Rev. 381 (1993)

B. Before and After the Civil War: From Property as Dominion to Property as Contract

1. The Rise of Contract as Property

Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (1977)

William H. Taft, The Right of Private Property, 3 Mich. L.J. 215 (1894)

2. A Major Property Development of the Post-Civil War Era: Emancipation, Free Labor and Women's Wages

Amy Dru Stanley, Conjugal Bonds and Wage Labor: Rights of Contract in the Age of Emancipation, 75 J. Amer. Hist. 471 (1988)

C. The Realist's "Reconstruction" of Property

1. The De-Reification of Property in the Early Twentieth Century

Kenneth J. Vandevelde, The New Property of the Nineteenth Century: The Development of the Modern Concept of Property, 29 Buff. L. Rev. 325 (1980)

Morris R. Cohen, Property and Sovereignty, 13 Cornell L.Q. 8 (1927)

Felix S. Cohen, Dialogue on Private Property, 9 Rutgers L. Rev. 357 (1954)

2. Two Major Property Developments of the Early Twentieth Century: Covenants and Zoning for Racial Exclusion

Timothy Jost, The Defeasible Fee and the Birth of the Modern Residential Subdivision, 49 Mo. L. Rev. 695 (1984)

Garrett Power, Apartheid Baltimore Style: The Residential Segregation Ordinances of 1910-1913, 42 Md. L. Rev. 289 (1982)

Richard H. Chused, Background to Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., adapted and revised from Cases, Materials and Problems in Property (1988)

D. Property as Protection From Large Enterprises and the Government: Individualism and the Welfare State in the 1960's

1. Liberty and Property in the Vietnam Era

Charles A. Reich, The New Property, 73 Yale L.J. 733 (1964)

Christopher D. Stone, Should Trees Have Standing?-Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects, 45 So. Cal. L. Rev. 450 (1972)

2. Two Major Property Developments of the Vietnam War Era: Reform of Landlord-Tenant Law and the Arrival of Federal "Open Housing" Controls

a. Landlord-Tenant Reform

Frances Fox Piven & Richard A. Cloward, Rent Strike: Disrupting the System, New Republic (December 2, 1967)

Mary Ann Glendon, The Transformation of American Landlord-Tenant Law, 23 Boston Coll. L. Rev. 503 (1982)

Edward H. Rabin, The Revolution in Residential Landlord-Tenant Law: Causes and Consequences, 69 Cornell L. Rev. 517 (1984)

Duncan Kennedy, The Effect of the Warranty of Habitability on Low Income Housing: "Milking" and Class Violence, 15 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 485 (1987)

b. Federal "Open Housing" Controls

Charles Lamb, Congress, The Courts, and Civil Rights: The Fair Housing Act of 1968 Revisited, 27 Villanova L. Rev. 1115 (1982)

John Calmore, Fair Housing vs. Fair Housing: The Problems with Providing Increased Housing Opportunities Through Spatial Deconcentration, 14 Clearinghouse Rev. 7 (1980)

PART III THE PRESENT STATE OF PROPERTY LAW

A. Estates in Land, Inheritance and Family Wealth

1. The Old Estate Chestnuts

Uriel H. Crocker, as Retold by David H. Fishman, The History of a Maryland Title: A Conveyancer's Romance Renewed, 42 Md. L. Rev. 496 (1983)

2. The Disappearing Estates: Defeasible Fees and Executory Interests

Gerald Korngold, For Unifying Servitudes and Defeasible Fees: Property Law's Functional Equivalents, 66 Tex. L. Rev. 533 (1988)

Jesse Dukeminier, Contingent Remainders and Executory Interests: A Requiem for a Distinction, 43 Minn. L. Rev. 13 (1958)

Susan F. French, Perpetuities: Three Essays in Honor of My Father, 65 Wash. L. Rev. 323 (1990)

3. Wealth Transmission Between Generations

John H. Langbein, The Twentieth-Century Revolution in Family Wealth Transmission, 86 Mich. L. Rev. 722 (1988)

B. Concurrent, Marital and "New Family" Ownership

1. Concurrent Estates

Evelyn Alicia Lewis, Struggling with Quicksand: The Ins and Outs of Cotenant Possession Value Liability and a Call for Default Rule Reform, 1994 Wisc. L. Rev. 331

2. Marital Property

Joan C. Williams, Women and Property (1992) (Unpublished Manuscript)

Carol M. Rose, Women and Property: Gaining and Losing Ground, 78 Va. L. Rev. 421 (1992)

3. New Family "Estates"

William A. Reppy, Jr., Property and Support Rights of Unmarried Cohabitants: A Proposal for Creating a New Legal Status, 44 La. L. Rev. 1678 (1984)

C. Adverse Possession

R. H. Helmholz, Adverse Possession and Subjective Intent, 61 Wash. U. L. Q. 331 (1983)

John G. Sprankling, The Antiwilderness Bias in American Property Law, 63 U. Chi. L. Rev. 519 (1966)

D. Land Sale Transactions

Thomas S. Ulen, The Efficiency of Specific Performance: Toward a Unified Theory of Contract Remedies, 83 Mich. L. Rev. 341 (1984)

Carol M. Rose, Crystals and Mud in Property Law, 40 Stan. L. Rev. 577 (1988)

C. Dent Bostick, Land Title Registration: An English Solution to an American Problem, 63 Ind. L.J. 55 (1988)

E. Easements, Covenants and Equitable Servitudes: The Merger Of Three Common Law Concepts of Private Land Use Controls

Uriel Reichman, Toward a Unified Concept of Servitudes, 55 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1179 (1982)

Stewart Sterk, Neighbors in American Land Law, 87 Colum. L. Rev. 55 (1987)

Glen O. Robinson, Explaining Contingent Rights: The Puzzle of "Obsolete" Covenants, 91 Colum. L. Rev. 546 (1991)

Gregory S. Alexander, Freedom, Coercion, and the Law of Servitudes, 73 Cornell L. Rev. 883, 890-902 (1988)

F. Nuisance and Trespass Law: The "Right" to Control Use of Land by Outsiders

1. Nuisance

Guido Calabresi and Douglas Melamed, Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral, 85 Harv. L. Rev. 1089 (1972)

Daniel A. Farber, Reassessing Boomer: Justice, Efficiency, and Nuisance Law, in Property Law and Legal Education: Essays in Honor of John E. Cribbet 7 (1988)

Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons, 162 Science 1243 (Dec. 13, 1968)

2. Trespass

Richard H. Chused, Background to State of New Jersey v. Shack and Tejeras, Cases, Materials and Problems in Property (1988)

Curtis J. Berger, Pruneyard Revisited: Political Activity on Private Lands, 66 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 633 (1991)

G. Public Land Use Controls Since World War II

1. Post World War II Land Use Policies: Suburban Subsidies and Segregation of the Urban Poor

Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985)

Lawrence M. Friedman, Public Housing and the Poor: An Overview, 54 Cal. L. Rev. 642 (1966)

2. Attacks on Exclusive Residential Suburbs: Mt. Laurel at the End of the Century

Note (Paul K. Stockman), Anti-Snob Zoning in Massachusetts: Assessing One Attempt at Opening the Suburbs to Affordable Housing, 78 Va. L. Rev. 535 (1992)

3. Zoning in the Modern Era: Creating Quality Urban Environments

Carol M. Rose, Planning and Dealing: Piecemeal Land Controls as a Problem of Local Legitimacy, 71 Calif. L. Rev. 837 (1983)

Robert C. Ellickson, Controlling Chronic Misconduct in City Spaces: of Panhandlers, Skid Rows, and Public-Space Zoning, 105 Yale L.J. 1165 (1996)

H. The Takings Dilemma

1. The Origins of the Takings Dilemma: Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon

Joseph F. DiMento, Mining the Archives of Pennsylvania Coal: Heaps of Constitutional Mischief, 11 J. Legal Hist. 396 (1990)

William Michael Treanor, The Original Understanding of the Takings Clause and the Political Process, 95 Colum. L. Rev. 782 (1995)

2. Eminent Domain and The Takings Dilemma in the Modern Era

a. The Public Purpose Requirement

Thomas W. Merrill, The Economics of Public Use, 72 Cornell L. Rev. 61 (1986)

b. The Police Power and the Takings Clause

Frank I. Michelman, Property, Utility, and Fairness: Comments on the Ethical Foundations of "Just Compensation" Law, 80 Harv. L. Rev. 1165 (1967)

Jerold S. Kayden, Zoning for Dollars: New Rules for an Old Game? Comments on the Municipal Art Society and Nollan Cases, 39 Wash. U. J. Urb. & Contemp. L. 3 (1991)

Jeremy Paul, The Hidden Structure of Takings Law, 64 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1393 (1991)

PART IV THINKING ABOUT PROPERTY IN THE NEXT CENTURY

A. The Death of "Property"

Thomas C. Grey, The Disintegration of Property, in Property: Nomos XXII 69 (1980)

B. Minimalist Government: Neo-Conservatism and Laissez Faire

Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974)

Richard Epstein, Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (1985)

Robert C. Ellickson, Alternatives to Zoning: Covenants, Nuisance Rules, and Fines as Land Use Controls, 40 U. Chi. L. Rev. 681 (1973)

C. Government and Community: Civic Republicanism Revisited

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971)

Joseph William Singer, The Reliance Interest in Property, 40 Stan. L. Rev. 614 (1988)

William H. Simon, Social Republican Property, 38 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1335 (1991)

D. Property, Personhood and the Human Body

Margaret Jane Radin, Market-Inalienability, 100 Harv. L. Rev. 1849 (1987)

Catherine M. Valerio Barrad, Genetic Information and Property Theory, 87 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1037 (1993)

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

CASE INDEX

Richard H. Chused