Property: Cases & Materials

<p> 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. <b>Property: Cases and Materials, Second Edition</b>, fully integrates the law of tangible and intangible personal property with a thorough treatment of real Property Law. </p><p><b>Charting a course through contemporary property law, this casebook:</b></p><ul><li> provokes <b>debate over fundamental questions from multiple perspectives</b></li><li><b>shows how a body of law develops over time</b> and responds to changing social and technological environments </li><li><b>offers stand-alone chapters</b> that can be reordered or omitted to <b> accommodate time constraints and teaching objectives </b></li><li> provides <b>transitional material</b> and <b>explanatory notes</b></li><li> incorporates <b>appellate decisions, statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, law review articles, </b>and <b>non-legal materials</b></li><li> presents <b>a compelling selection of principal cases</b>, such as <ul><li><i>Elvis Presley International Memorial Foundation v. Crowell </i></li><li><i>Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. </i></li><li><i>Dred Scott v. Sandford o Popov v. Hayashi </i></li><li><i>Neponsit Property Owners' Ass'n v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank </i></li><li><i>The Barbed Wire Patent </i></li><li><i>Johnson v. Macintos </i></li><li><i>Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.</i></li></ul></li><li> features a <b>comprehensive Teacher’s Manual</b></li></ul><p><b>Thoroughly updated throughout, the Second Edition features:</b></p><ul><li> new units on <b>cultural property</b> and <b>natural resources law, including water law</b></li><li> numerous recent principal cases including: <ul><li><i>Kelo v. City of New London</i>, on eminent domain </li><li><i>Georgia v. Randolph</i>, on protecting a cotenant from a police search that was authorized by another owner </li><li><i>Gormley v. Robertson</i>, on the evolving law of property rights for same-sex couples </li><li><i>Philip Morris, Inc. v. Reilly</i>, on regulatory takings of trade secrets </li><li><i>Wilderness Watch v. Mainella</i>, on the protection of Cumberland Island as a wilderness area </li><li><i>Corliss v. Wenner</i>, on finder's rights to treasure trove </li><li><i>Carson Harbor Village, Ltd. v. Unocal Corporation</i>, on liability for environmental contamination </li></ul></li></ul><p><b>Property: Cases and Materials</b>, now in a <b>Second Edition</b>, 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. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>