Property: Cases & Materials

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. 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 provokes debate over fundamental questions from multiple perspectivesshows how a body of law develops over time and responds to changing social and technological environmentsoffers stand-alone chapters that can be reordered or omitted to accommodate time constraints and teaching objectivesprovides transitional material and explanatory notesincorporates appellate decisions, statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, law review articles, and non-legal materialspresents a compelling selection of principal cases, such asElvis Presley International Memorial Foundation v. CrowellMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.Dred Scott v. Sandford o Popov v. HayashiNeponsit Property Owners' Ass'n v. Emigrant Industrial Savings BankThe Barbed Wire PatentJohnson v. MacintosLoretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.features a comprehensive Teacher s ManualThoroughly updated throughout, the Second Edition new units on cultural property and natural resources law, including water lawnumerous recent principal cases Kelo v. City of New London, on eminent domainGeorgia v. Randolph, on protecting a cotenant from a police search that was authorized by another ownerGormley v. Robertson, on the evolving law of property rights for same-sex couplesPhilip Morris, Inc. v. Reilly, on regulatory takings of trade secretsWilderness Watch v. Mainella, on the protection of Cumberland Island as a wilderness areaCorliss v. Wenner, on finder's rights to treasure troveCarson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. Unocal Corporation, on liability for environmental contamination 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.