The Third Edition has been heavily updated with recent cases, including more cases from the 21st century than any other major property casebook. A thorough update of all existing materials includes improved coverage of natural resources law and intellectual property.
Features:
- covers "old property" (e.g. basics of real estate law) and "new property" (e.g. developments in intellectual property law) in one volume
- provokes debate on fundamental questions from multiple perspectives
- the creation of property
- information as property
- collective v. individual rights
- property as related to other bodies of law
- coverage of intellectual property shows how a the law responds to social and technological changes
- flexible organization--stand-alone chapters may be omitted under time constraints
- transitional and explanatory notes enable student understanding of cases and readings
- includes appellate decisions, statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, law review articles, and non-legal materials
- explores principal cases
- Elvis Presley International Memorial Foundation v. Crowell (on the right of publicity)
- Panavision International, L.P. v. Toeppen (on rights in Internet domain names)
- Dred Scott v. Sandford (on rights in human beings, the role of social values in defining property)
- Popov v. Hayashi (on the dispute over the Barry Bonds home run ball)
Thoroughly updated, the revised Third Edition presents:
- many new recent cases including more cases from the 21st century than any other major property casebook
- improved coverage of natural resources law and intellectual property