Property: Cases & Materials - hardcover

<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>