Property: Cases & Materials - Hardcover

James C. Smith; Edward J. Larson; John Copeland Nagle; John A. Kidwell

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9780735570641: Property: Cases & Materials

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735570647 ISBN 13: 9780735570641

Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2008

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Professors who want to venture beyond the traditional land-based property coverage to include Intellectual Property and other emerging forms of Property Law will find this book ideally suited to their purposes. Property: Cases and Materials, Second Edition, fully integrates the law of tangible and intangible personal property with a thorough treatment of real Property Law. Charting a course through contemporary property law, this casebook: <ul> <li> provokes debate over fundamental questions from multiple perspectives </li> <li> shows how a body of law develops over time and responds to changing social and technological environments </li> <li> offers stand-alone chapters that can be reordered or omitted to accommodate time constraints and teaching objectives </li> <li> provides transitional material and explanatory notes </li> <li> incorporates appellate decisions, statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, law review articles, and non-legal materials </li> <li> presents a compelling selection of principal cases, such as <ul> <li> Elvis Presley International Memorial Foundation v. Crowell </li> <li> Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. </li> <li> Dred Scott v. Sandford o Popov v. Hayashi </li> <li> Neponsit Property Owners' Ass'n v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank </li> <li> The Barbed Wire Patent </li> <li> Johnson v. Macintos </li> <li> Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. </li> </ul> </li> <li> features a comprehensive Teacher’s Manual </li> </ul> Thoroughly updated throughout, the Second Edition features: <ul> <li> new units on cultural property and natural resources law, including water law </li> <li> numerous recent principal cases including: <ul> <li> Kelo v. City of New London, on eminent domain </li> <li> Georgia v. Randolph, on protecting a cotenant from a police search that was authorized by another owner </li> <li> Gormley v. Robertson, on the evolving law of property rights for same-sex couples </li> <li> Philip Morris, Inc. v. Reilly, on regulatory takings of trade secrets </li> <li> Wilderness Watch v. Mainella, on the protection of Cumberland Island as a wilderness area </li> <li> Corliss v. Wenner, on finder's rights to treasure trove </li> <li> Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. Unocal Corporation, on liability for environmental contamination </li> </ul> </li> </ul> Property: Cases and Materials, now in a Second Edition, maps the full landscape of contemporary property law, bringing into focus basic land-based property law along with that other major promontory, intellectual property. As you chart a course through your next Property class, this may well be the casebook you’ll want to bring with you.

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