Property Rights

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).

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,…

Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, Making Coasean Property More Coasean, 54 J.L. & Econ. S77 (2011).

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

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

Joseph William Singer, NIMBY Covenants Are Not Protected by the Takings Clause, 50 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 69 (2025).

C. D. A. Evans & J. Mark Ramseyer, Japan v. Shimizu, 26 Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht 313 (2021).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Geothermal in Japan (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1048, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 80 Mennonite Q. Rev. 106 (2006)(reviewing Alvin J. Esau, The Courts and the Colonies: The Litigation of Hutterite Church Disputes…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Water Law in Imperial Japan: Public Goods, Private Claims, and Legal Convergence, 18 J. Legal Stud. 51 (1989).

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Sins of Their Fathers: Illegitimacy in Japan and Surrogate Punishment across Generations, in The Timing of Lawmaking 322 (Frank Fagan &…

J. Mark. Ramseyer, Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth (Cambridge Univ. Press 1996).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, Japanese Law: An Economic Approach (Univ. of Chi. Press 1999).

Mikael Adolphson & J. Mark Ramseyer, The Competitive Enforcement of Property Rights in Medieval Japan: The Role of Temples and Monasteries, 71 J. Econ. Behav.

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Fable of Land Reform: Leases and Credit Markets in Occupied Japan, 24 J. Econ. & Mgmt. Strategy 934 (2015).

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

Maureen E. Brady, Covenants and the Contract Clause, 43 Virginia Environmental Law Review 93 (2025).

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

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

Maureen E. Brady, The Domino Effect in State Takings Law: A Response to 51 Imperfect Solutions, 2020 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1455 (2020).