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Perspectives on Property Law, Fifth Edition

Authors
  • Robert C. Ellickson
  • Carol M. Rose
  • Henry E. Smith
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Perspectives on Property Law, edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Henry E. Smith is an interdisciplinary introduction to property law and institutions through edited and annotated readings from classic and contemporary sources. 

Entering its Fifth Edition, Perspectives on Property Law continues its track record of success. The authors supplement a wide selection of fascinating and essential readings on Property Law with their own commentary. This reader continues an approach tracing back to the landmark first edition—Bruce Ackerman's Economic Foundations of Property Law, published in 1975. Like all previous editions, this edition contains many selections, both classic and more recent, in law and economics. Included selections are also taken from sociology, psychology, history, philosophy, gender studies, game theory, and law and literature.

New to the 5th Edition:

  • Richard Brooks’s article on the dangers of racial discrimination from non-enforceable Restrictive Covenants.
  • Yun-chien Chang’s chapter from a global comparative study questioning the basis for Adverse Possession.
  • Thomas W. Merrill’s article on the Economics of Leasing.
  • Henry E. Smith’s article on equity as meta-law and F.H. Lawson’s article on the creative use of legal concepts.

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • An assemblage of leading writings on the fundamental issues of Property Law
  • Each selection is accompanied by notes, questions, and commentary designed to deepen student understanding
  • A well-known and respected author team
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About the authors
Robert C. Ellickson
Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law
Yale Law School

Robert C. Ellickson has been a Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School since 1988. He was formerly a member of the law faculties at USC and Stanford. His major research interests, as the title of his chair suggests, are property, land use, housing, urban history, and social norms. He also is a veteran teacher of torts. He has been a visiting professor at the Harvard and University of Chicago Law Schools.

Carol M. Rose
Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emeritus of Law and Organization and Professorial Lecturer in Law
Yale Law School

Carol M. Rose is the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emeritus of Law and Organization and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Law School faculty in 1989. Professor Rose teaches property, land use, environmental law, natural resources law, and intellectual property law. Her publications include Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms (2013), with Richard R.W. Brooks; Perspectives on Property Law (3rd edition), with Robert Ellickson and Bruce Ackerman (2000); and Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory and Rhetoric of Ownership (1994). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Rose received her B.A. from Antioch in 1962, her M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1963, her Ph.D. in History from Cornell in 1969, and her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1977.

Henry E. Smith
Fessenden Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Henry E. Smith is the Fessenden Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he directs the Project on the Foundations of Private Law. Previously, he taught at Northwestern University School of Law and was the Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property and Environmental Law at Yale Law School. He holds an A.B. from Harvard, a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford, and a J.D. from Yale. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Ralph K. Winter, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Smith has written primarily on the law and economics of property and intellectual property, with a focus on how property-related institutions lower information costs and constrain strategic behavior. He teaches primarily in the areas of property, intellectual property, natural resources, remedies, taxation, and law and economics. His books include The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Property (2010, coauthored with Thomas W. Merrill), Property: Principles and Policies (2d ed., 2012, coauthored with Thomas W. Merrill), and Principles of Patent Law (6th ed., 2013, co-authored with F. Scott Kieff, Pauline Newman, and Herbert F. Schwartz). He is the coeditor of The Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law (2011, with Kenneth Ayotte), Philosophical Foundations of Property Law (2013, with James Penner), and Perspectives on Property Law (4th ed., in press, with Robert C. Ellickson and Carol M. Rose).

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Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2023-01-31
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
496
Connected eBook + Paperback
9781543808988
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798886141856
Subject
Property Law
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