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Property: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition

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  • James Charles Smith
  • Edward J. Larson
  • Alejandro Camacho
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Book length
976 pages
Publication Date
2022-01-31
Edition
Fifth Edition
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The fifth edition of Property: Cases and Materials by Jim Smith, Ed Larson, and new author Alejandro Camacho brings current topics and recent cases including the Public Trust Doctrine and Race and the Law to the basic property course without sacrificing coverage of established material.

Property: Cases and Materials features sweeping coverage in a single volume, from “old property,” including the basics of estates in land and servitudes to “new property,” including intellectual property, cultural property, and property in living things. The text provokes debate on fundamental questions such as the creation of property, information as property, collective v. individual rights, and property as related to other bodies of law. Its coverage of intellectual property shows how the law grows and responds to social and technological change

Principal cases include Marshall v. ESPN Inc. (student athletes’ publicity rights), Bonnichsen v. United States (Native American human remains), Glass v. Goeckel (public trust doctrine), Friends of Danny DeVito v. Wolf (COVID-19 takings dispute), and Dred Scott v. Sandford.

New to the Fifth Edition:

  • A new chapter, “Race and Exclusion in the Property System,” explores how status and power have fundamentally shaped rights in property rights in the United States.
  • Enhanced coverage of public trust doctrine, which has emerged as a critical tool for environmental protection in many states.
  • More cases from the twenty-first century than any other major property casebook.

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Coverage of the basics of real property law, tangible personal property, and intangible property including publicity rights and intellectual property.
  • The most concise property casebook available allowing users to cover most or all of the book in a one-semester property course, a feature that no other book has.
  • Provokes readers to debate fundamental questions from multiple perspectives.
  • Shows how a body of law grows and evolves over time and responds to new social and technological environments.
  • Designed for flexibility, with chapters that can stand alone.
  • Transitional and explanatory notes enable students to understand and construct the purpose of the cases or readings.

Teaching materials include:

  • Teacher’s Manual
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About the authors
Edward Larson
Pepperdine University

Prior to joining the Pepperdine School of Law, Professor Larson was the Russell Professor of History and Talmadge Professor of Law at the University of Georgia. He received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History. Professor Larson specializes in law, science and technology, and health care law. The author of five books and over forty published articles, Professor Larson writes mostly about issues of science, medicine, and law from a historical perspective.

His books are Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (2004), Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science in the Galapagos Islands (2001), Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (1995), Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution (1985, 1989, 2003 rev. ed.) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (1997).

His articles have appeared in such varied journals as Nature, Scientific American, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Wall Street Journal, Virginia Law Review, Christianity Today, Christian Century, Journal of the History of Medicine and British Journal for the History of Science. He has also co-authored or co-edited an additional five books, including a property law casebook published in 2004.

The Fulbright Program named Professor Larson to the John Adams Chair in American Studies for 2001, and he taught two seminars in American legal history and American science policy while at the University of Leiden in Holland. Professor Larson received the George Sarton Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000, honoring a historian of science for a body of work. He also received one of University of Georgia’s highest honors for scholarship when he was presented with the Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award in spring 2001.

He has taught in Austria, China, France, and New Zealand. A frequent speaker, Professor Larson has presented named or funded lectures at dozens of colleges or universities, including California Institute of Technology, Penn State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, and Vanderbilt University. He has given papers at dozens of academic conferences in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia, and legal and medical education talks to professional legal, judicial, and medical groups throughout America.

He is interviewed frequently for broadcast and print media, including feature appearances on the Today Show, Booknotes, Nova, PBS News Hour and various BBC and NPR programs. Professor Larson also served as associate counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor (1983-89) and as an attorney with Davis, Wright Tremaine in Seattle (1979-83).

Alejandro E. Camacho
Professor
University of California, Irvine School of Law

Professor Alejandro E. Camacho’s scholarship explores the goals, structures, and processes of regulation, with a particular focus on natural resources and public lands law, pollution control law, and land use regulation. His writing generally considers the role of public participation and scientific expertise in regulation, the allocation of authority and relationships between regulatory institutions, and how the design and goals of legal institutions must and can be reshaped to more effectively account for emerging technologies and the dynamic character of natural and human systems. His legal scholarship includes articles published or forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Emory Law Journal, BYU Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Colorado Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Regulation & Governance, and Law, Innovation, & Technology. Professor Camacho is the co-author, with Robert Glicksman, of Reorganizing Government: A Functional and Dimensional Framework, published by NYU Press in 2019. He is also the co-author of Property: Cases & Materials, Fifth Edition (with James Charles Smith and Edward J. Larson) (Aspen 2022).

Professor Camacho’s interdisciplinary research has involved collaborations with experts in ecology, land use planning, political science, computer science, genetics, philosophy, and sociology. He was a co-investigator on National Science Foundation-funded research developing a collaborative cyber-infrastructure for facilitating climate change adaptation. His scientific publications include articles published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, BioScience, the Journal of Applied Ecology, Frontiers in Climate, and Issues in Science and Technology. He is a frequent public speaker and has contributed opinion pieces or interviews for various print and radio news outlets (including the Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, The Australian, Discover, Nature Climate Change, Bloomberg Businessweek, HuffPost, Mother Jones, The Hill, and National Public Radio stations).

Professor Camacho is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He also serves as the inaugural Faculty Director of the UCI Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources, which seeks to promote policy-relevant research and public engagement through conferences, lectures, publications, and stakeholder facilitation on a variety of regional and national environmental issues. He is on the Board of Directors and a Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform, a nonprofit think tank devoted to issues of environmental protection and safety. He holds a courtesy appointment in Political Science at UCI’s School of Social Sciences and is the former chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Natural Resources. In Fall 2017, he was the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at the Yale Law School. Before joining UCI, Professor Camacho was an Associate Professor at the Notre Dame Law School, a research fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center, and practiced environmental and land use law.
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Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2022-01-31
Copyright Year
2022
Pages
976
Connected eBook with Study Center + Hardcover
9781543838947
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9781543857153
Subject
Property Law
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