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Dukeminier & Krier's Property, Eleventh Edition

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Authors
  • Gregory S. Alexander
  • Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
  • David N. Schleicher
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Book length
1168 pages
Publication Date
2026-02-01
Edition
Eleventh Edition
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Table of contents
Preface

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The 45th Edition of the legendary casebook continues its tradition to enlighten students with compelling cases and timely coverage of contemporary issues. Jesse Dukeminier and Jim Krier’s trademark wit, passion, and human interest perspective has made Property one of the best—and best loved—casebooks of all time. A unique blend of authority and good humor, you’ll find a moveable feast of visual interest, compelling cases, and timely coverage of contemporary issues. In the Eleventh Edition, the authors have created a thoughtful and thorough revision, true to the spirit of the classic property text.

New to this Edition: 

  • Brand new chapter (Chapter 13) on property taxes as a tool of property regulation, featuring four new primary cases, historical materials, notes, and problems; there are many efforts around the country to reform property tax systems, and these materials—unique among property law casebooks—provide instructors with a way to address this pressing issue 
  • Review Problems after every chapter, with model answers provided for students in a substantially expanded Appendix 
  • Extensive coverage of the new Restatement (Fourth) of Property 
  • New and recent major adverse possession case laying out the requirements of the doctrine clearly for students; new and recent gift causa mortis case involving suicide (Chapter 2) 
  • New material and problems discussing effects of generative AI on intellectual property law; new primary case on the right of publicity for athletes whose avatars are used in video games; major new primary case involving trespass law, corner-crossing, and the relationship between private property and access to the public domain (Chapter 3) 
  • Extensive discussion of new empirical research on landlord-tenant law reforms and housing policy (Chapter 7) 
  • Revised section on the law of mortgages, including substantially bulked up discussion of mortgage regulation; new case on the post-2008 life of government sponsored entities operating in mortgage markets (Chapter 8) 
  • New primary case on title insurance and discussion of the most frequently litigated issues arising therefrom (Chapter 9) 
  • New materials on suggested changes to nuisance law in the proposed Restatement (Fourth) of Property; section on cases involving “non-physically invasive nuisances”; discussion of the interaction between nuisance and zoning (Chapter 10) 
  • New materials on conservation easements, common interest communities, “stale covenants,” state laws limiting the scope of covenants, and condo construction (Chapter 11) 
  • Revised section on the history of zoning; materials on the “quiet revolution” in land use in the 1970s; substantial engagement with the burgeoning economic literature on the effects of zoning—the most serious such discussion in any property law casebook; new section on recent zoning reforms around the country, including a primary case about a state constitutional challenge to zoning reforms (Chapter 12)

Professors and students will benefit from: 

  • A dynamic casebook, encompassing cases, text, questions, problems, visual illustrations, and examples. 
  • Modular organization. 
  • Inclusive coverage running the full range of property topics, including in-depth treatments of estates and future interests, servitudes, and land-use controls. 
  • An accessible “economic lens” as a tool for thinking critically about property law. 
  • Extensive research into the backstories of many primary cases.
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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents 
List of Illustrations 
Preface to the Eleventh Edition 
From the Preface to the First Edition 
Acknowledgments 


PART I
AN INTRODUCTION TO SOME FUNDAMENTALS 
CHAPTER 1
Acquisition of Property by First Possession: Discovery and Capture 
CHAPTER 2
Acquisition of Property by Subsequent Possession: Find, Adverse
Possession, and Gift 
CHAPTER 3
The Limits and Possibilities of Real Property, Personal Property, and
Intellectual Property 
PART II
THE SYSTEM OF ESTATES 
CHAPTER 4
Possessory Estates
CHAPTER 5
Future Interests 
CHAPTER 6
Co- ownership and Marital Interests 
CHAPTER 7
Leaseholds: The Law of Landlord and Tenant 
PART III
TRANSFERS OF LAND 
CHAPTER 8
The Land Transaction 
CHAPTER 9
Title Assurance 
PART IV
LAND USE CONTROLS 
CHAPTER 10
Judicial Land Use Controls: The Law of Nuisance 
CHAPTER 11
Private Land Use Controls: The Law of Servitudes 
CHAPTER 12
Legislative Land Use Controls: The Law of Zoning
CHAPTER 13
Property Taxes 
CHAPTER 14
Eminent Domain and the Problem of Regulatory Takings 


Appendix 
Table of Cases 
Author Index 
Subject Index 

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About the authors
Gregory S. Alexander
A. Robert Noll Professor of Law
Cornell University

Professor Gregory Alexander, a nationally renowned expert in property and trusts and estates, has taught at Cornell Law School since 1985. Following his graduation from Northwestern University School of Law, he clerked for the Hon. George Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. After he completed further study as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, Alexander became a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he remained until coming to Cornell.

An active member of the academic community, Professor Alexander has served as Reporter to the Uniform Ante-Mortem Probate of Wills Act Project, chaired sections on Donative Transfers and Property for the Association of American Law Schools, and appeared fifteen times in Who's Who in American Law. Mr. Alexander remains a prolific and recognized writer, the winner of the American Publishers Association's 1997 Best Book of the Year in Law award for his work, Commodity and Propriety. Professor Alexander is also author of The Global Debate Over Constitutional Property, published by University of Chicago Press (2006), and Community and Property (with Eduardo Peñalver), published by Oxford University Press (2009).

Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Sidley Austin Professor of Law
University of Chicago

Lior Strahilevitz received his BA in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996, graduating with highest honors. He received his JD in 1999 from Yale Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following his graduation, he clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then practiced law in Seattle before joining the law school faculty in 2002. He was tenured in 2007 and served as the Law School's Deputy Dean from 2010 to 2012. In 2011, he was named the inaugural Sidley Austin Professor of Law. His teaching and research interests include property and land use, privacy, intellectual property, law and technology, and motorist behavior.

David N. Schleicher
Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law
Yale Law School

David Schleicher is an expert in local government law, land use, federalism, state and local finance, and urban development. His work has been published widely in academic journals and popular outlets. He recently released a new book, In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Fiscal Crises, and has co-authored leading casebooks about local government and property law. Professor Schleicher is also the co-host of the hit podcast, “Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast.”

Professor Schleicher has been called “the ideal legal scholar of cities” (Edward Glaeser, Harvard University), “the leading lawyer on state and city governments” (Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch ‘58), and “one of the most brilliant and far-ranging political thinkers of his generation.” (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker). In the press, he has been called “the most important thinker we have on the subject of local government” and “ingenious” by National Review and one of the “most interesting writers on land use” by Washington Monthly. His work has been described as “great but old fashioned” by Vox, “interesting” by The Nation, “clever” by The Economist, “neat” by Slate, “startling” by City Observatory, “excellent” by Forbes, and discussed extensively in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Affairs and Reuters, among a number of other places.
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Edition
Eleventh Edition
Publication date
2026-02-01
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
1168
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9798894104898
eBook
9798894104874
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9798894104867
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Property Law
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