Personal Property

Yun-chien Chang & Henry E. Smith, An Economic Analysis of Civil Versus Common Law Property, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1 (2012).

Henry E. Smith, The Persistence of System in Property Law, 163 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2055 (2015).

Henry E. Smith, On the Economy of Concepts in Property, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2097 (2012).

Henry E. Smith, Property as the Law of Things, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 1691 (2012).

Henry E. Smith & Yun-chien Chang, The Numerus Clausus Principle, Property Customs, and the Emergence of New Property Forms, 100 Iowa L. Rev. 2275 (2015).

Kenneth Ayotte, Ezra Friedman & Henry E. Smith, A Safety Valve Model of Equity as Anti-Opportunism (Nw. L. & Econ. Res. Paper No.13-15, Mar. 30,…

Maureen E. Brady, Property v. Guns: The Level-of-Generality Problem in Wolford, Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

Maureen E. Brady, The Lost “Effects” of the Fourth Amendment: Giving Personal Property Due Protection, 125 Yale L.J. 946 (2016).

Maureen E. Brady, Book Review, 38 L. & Hist. Rev. 291 (2020) (reviewing Caroline R. Sherman, The Uses of the Dead: The Early Modern Development…

Charles Donahue, Jr., Papyrology and 3 Caines 175, 27 Law & Hist. Rev. 179 (2009).

Charles Donahue, Jr., Property Law, in 26 Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia 180 (15th ed., 1993).

Charles Donahue, Jr., The Future of the Concept of Property Predicted from its Past, 22 Nomos 28 (1980).

Charles Donahue, Jr., What Causes Fundamental Legal Ideas? Marital Property in England and France in the Thirteenth Century, 78 Mich. L. Rev. 59 (1979).

I. Glenn Cohen, Dov Fox & Eli Y. Adashi, Losing Embryos, Finding Justice: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Personhood, 169 Annals Internal Med. 800…

Steven Shavell, Individual Precautions to Prevent Theft: Private Versus Socially Optimal Behavior, 11 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 123 (1991).

Robert H. Sitkoff, Book Review, 76 Cambridge L.J. 674 (2017) (reviewing Birke Häcker & Charles Mitchell, Current Issues in Succession Law (2016) & Passing Wealth…

Henry Hansmann & Reinier Kraakman, Property, Contract, and Verification: The Numerus Clausus Problem and the Divisibility of Rights, 31 J. Legal Stud. S373 (2002).

Stephen E. Sachs, Saving Toby: Extortion, Blackmail, and the Right to Destroy, 24 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 251 (2006).