Property

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.Smith, James C. is the author of 'Property', published 2008 under ISBN 9780735570641 and ISBN 0735570647.