Property: Cases & Materials

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:

provokes debate over fundamental questions from multiple perspectives
shows how a body of law develops over time and responds to changing social and technological environments
offers stand-alone chapters that can be reordered or omitted to accommodate time constraints and teaching objectives

provides transitional material and explanatory notes

incorporates appellate decisions, statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, law review articles, and non-legal materials

presents a compelling selection of principal cases, such as
Elvis Presley International Memorial Foundation v. Crowell

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.

Dred Scott v. Sandford o Popov v. Hayashi

Neponsit Property Owners' Ass'n v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank

The Barbed Wire Patent

Johnson v. Macintos

Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.

features a comprehensive Teacher s Manual

Thoroughly updated throughout, the Second Edition features:

new units on cultural property and natural resources law, including water law

numerous recent principal cases including:

Kelo v. City of New London, on eminent domain

Georgia v. Randolph, on protecting a cotenant from a police search that was authorized by another owner
Gormley v. Robertson, on the evolving law of property rights for same-sex couples

Philip Morris, Inc. v. Reilly, on regulatory takings of trade secrets

Wilderness Watch v. Mainella, on the protection of Cumberland Island as a wilderness area

Corliss v. Wenner, on finder's rights to treasure trove

Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. Unocal Corporation, on liability for environmental contamination

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.