Owning Property Section 3. Real Property

3. Real Property [October]

Land & houses. Resource & environmental management, and how that often interfaces with social controls and social structures and economy. 

Topics & Case Studies:

• Theories of ownership of land, and alternate approaches to property.
  • Adverse possession. Van Valkenburgh v. Lutz and squatters’ rights
  • Land struggles and colonialism
  • Enclosure of the commons
• Zoning, takings, and the environment 
  • Bundy & grazing rights
  • Eminent domain and takings jurisprudence. Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Cmsn “total regulatory takings”; Kelo v. City of New London
• Controlling Private Transfers
  • Dead hand controls
  • Restrictive covenants. Shelley v. Kraemer.