Property Rights

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Property Rules Versus Liability Rules: An Economic Analysis, 109 Harv. L. Rev. 713 (1996).

Henry E. Smith, Introduction, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law (Kenneth Ayotte & Henry E. Smith eds., 2011).

Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, Make Eminent Domain Fair for All, Bos. Globe, Aug. 12, 2005, Op-Ed.

Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, Making Planning Matter: A New Approach to Eminent Domain, Harv. Design Mag., Spring/Summer 2005, at 71.

Oren Bar-Gill & Nicola Persico, Bounded Rationality and the Theory of Property, 94 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1019 (2019).

Maureen E. Brady, The Failure of America’s First City Plan, 46 Urb. Law. 507 (2014).

Maureen E. Brady, The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds, 128 Yale L.J. 872 (2019).

Maureen E. Brady, The Damagings Clauses, 104 Va. L. Rev. 341 (2018).

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

Nora Ellen Groce, Jillian London & Michael Ashley Stein, Inheritance, Poverty, and Disability, 29 Disability & Soc’y 1554 (2014).

Cass R. Sunstein, Rights and Their Critics, 70 Notre Dame L. Rev. 727 (1995).

William W. Fisher, Stories about Property, 94 Mich. L. Rev. 1776 (1996) (reviewing Carol M. Rose, Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory, and…

William W. Fisher, Making Sense of Madison: Nedelsky on Private Property, 18 L. & Soc. Inquiry 547 (1993) (reviewing Jennifer Nedelsky, Private Property and the…

William W. Fisher, The Trouble with Lucas, 45 Stan. L. Rev. 1393 (1993).

Randall Kennedy, Justice Murphy’s Concurrence in Oyama v California: Cussing Out Racism, 74 Tex. L. Rev. 1245 (1996).

Joseph W. Singer, No Right to Exclude: Public Accommodations and Private Property, 90 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1283 (1996).

Henry E. Smith, Property as Platform: Coordinating Standards for Technological Innovation, 9 J. Competition L. & Econ. 1057 (2013).

Frank I. Michelman, Liberties, Fair Values, and Constitutional Method, 59 U. Chi. L. Rev. 91 (1992).

Charles Fried, Protecting Property — Law and Politics 13 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 44 (1990).

Maureen E. Brady, Turning Neighbors into Nuisances, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1609 (2021).

Cass R. Sunstein, The Beard Thesis and Franklin Roosevelt, 56 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 114 (1987).

Yochai Benkler, Commons and Growth: The Essential Role of Open Commons in Market Economies, 80 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1499 (2013) (reviewing Brett M. Frischmann,…

William W. Fisher, The Significance of Public Perceptions of the Takings Doctrine, 88 Colum. L. Rev. 1774 (1988).

William W. Fisher, Book Review, 65 Bus. Hist. Rev. 169 (1991) (reviewing Liberty, Property, and the Future of Constitutional Development (Ellen Frankel Paul & Howard…

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

Robert H. Sitkoff, Trust Law as Fiduciary Governance Plus Asset Partitioning, in The Worlds of the Trust 428 (Lionel Smith ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2013).

Robert H. Sitkoff, The Economic Structure of Fiduciary Law, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 1039 (2011).

Oren Bar-Gill & Christoph Engel, How to Protect Entitlements: An Experiment, 61 J.L. & Econ. 525 (2018).

Oren Bar-Gill & Ariel Porat, Harm-Benefit Interactions, 16 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 86 (2014).

Morton J. Horwitz, The History of the Public/Private Distinction, 130 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1423 (1982).

Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 124 Pol. Sci. Q. 559 (2009)(reviewing Patrick M. Garry, An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape…

Mark Tushnet, Epstein’s Best of All Possible Worlds: The Rule of Law, 80 U. Chi. L. Rev. 487 (2013) (reviewing Richard A. Epstein, Design for…

Joseph W. Singer, Original Acquisition of Property: From Conquest & Possession to Democracy & Equal Opportunity, 86 Ind. L.J. 763 (2011).

Joseph W. Singer, Property as the Law of Democracy, 63 Duke L.J. 1287 (2014).

Yun-chien Chang & Henry E. Smith, Convergence and Divergence in Systems of Property Law: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses, 92 S. Cal. L. Rev. 785 (2019).

Henry E. Smith, Complexity and the Cathedral: Making Law and Economics More Calabresian, 48 Eur. J.L & Econ. 43 (2019).

Henry E. Smith, Property as Complex Interaction, 13 J. Inst. Econ. 809 (2017).

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

Henry E. Smith, Semicommon Property Rights and Scattering in the Open Fields, 29 J. of Legal Stud. 131 (2000).

Henry E. Smith, Structured Settlements as Structures of Rights, 88 Va. L. Rev. 1953 (2002).

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

Henry E. Smith, Exclusion versus Governance: Two Strategies for Delineating Property Rights, 31 J. of Legal Stud. S453 (2002).

Henry E. Smith, Property Is Not Just a Bundle of Rights, 8 Econ Journal Watch 279 (2011).

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle, 110 Yale L.J. 1 (2000).

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, The Property/Contract Interface, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 773 (2001).

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, What Happened to Property in Law and Economics?, 111 Yale L. J. 357 (2001).