Property [Connected Casebook] (Aspen Casebook) - Hardcover

Jesse Dukeminier; James E. Krier; Gregory S. Alexander; Michael Schill; Lior Jacob Strahilevitz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1454851368 ISBN 13: 9781454851363

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer, 2014

Synopsis

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Jesse Dukeminier’s trademark wit, passion, and human interest perspective has made Property, now in its Eighth Edition, one of the best—and best loved—casebooks of all time. A unique blend of authority and good humor, you’ll find a moveable feast of visual interest, compelling cases, and timely coverage of contemporary issues. In the Eighth Edition, the authors—along with new co-author Lior Jacob Strahilevitz—have created a thoughtful and thorough revision, true to the spirit of the Late Jesse Dukeminier.

Features:

• Thoroughly updated throughout with the expansion of many topics and the introduction of new topics.
• Extended material on intellectual property with new cases on patents, copyright, and trademarks.
• New material on exclusion, abandonment, and destruction, with new cases and discussion.
• Introduction of a comprehensive treatment of the mortgage crisis with new cases and notes on foreclosure, proposals to reform the legal system and proposals to revamp housing finance.

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About this title

About the Author:

Gregory S. Alexander is a nationally renowned expert in property and trusts and estates and the A. Robert Noll Professor of Law at Cornell University, New York. Following his graduation from Northwestern University School of Law, he clerked for the Honorable George Edwards of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Alexander is the winner of the American Publishers Association's 1997 Best Book of the Year in Law award for his work, Commodity and Propriety. More recent books include The Global Debate over Constitutional Property: Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence and Property and Community (with Eduardo M. Penalver). He is co-author of the most widely used property casebook in the United States (with James Krier and Michael Schill). His articles have appeared in such journals as the Columbia Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law Review and the Cornell Law Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1454851368
• ISBN 13: 9781454851363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1328