Property Law

Robert Niles-Weed & Robert H. Sitkoff, It’s 10 PM, Do You Know Where Your Trust Is Sited?, SSRN (Mar. 4, 2026).

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

Joseph William Singer, Easy Cases Make Bad Law: Values and Reasons in Property Law, George Mason Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

Joseph W. Singer & Nestor M. Davidson, Aspen Treatise for Property (7th ed., 2025).

Joseph William Singer, Deep Pits and Solid Ground: What if Property Law is Both the Cause of the Affordability Crisis & the Solution to It?,…

Jerome H. Reichman & Ruth L. Okediji, When Copyright Law and Science Collide: Empowering Digitally Integrated Research Methods on a Global Scale, 96 Minn. L.

C. Alexander Evans & J. Mark Ramseyer, Property Law at the Transition to Exponential Growth: Examples from Japan (John M. Olin Center L., Econ. &…

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, The Fable of Land Reform: Expropriation and Redistribution in Occupied Japan (Harv. John M. Olin Discussion Paper Series, Discussion Paper No. 733,…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law (2015).

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Sins of Their Fathers: Illegitimacy in Japan and Surrogate Punishment across Generations (Harvard Law School John M. Olin Ctr. for Law,…

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.