Syllabus, Spring 2013

"CB" = Singer, Property Law (5th ed.)

I.  The Interdependence of Property Rights

• Class 1 (Jan. 15): Rights to Exclude, Privileges to Enter (part 1)
  
  • CB 24-32 (Glavin, Jacque, notes)
    
  • eBay v. Bidder’s Edge (download from courseware site)
    
  • CB 3-14 (Shack, Desnick, notes 1-4)

• Class 2 (Jan. 17): Rights to Exclude, Privileges to Enter (part 2)
  
  • CB 16-23 (Uston, notes)
    
  • CB 33-40 (Civil Rights Act materials, notes),
    
  • CB 52-56 (Free Speech Rights of Access)
    
  • Intel v. Hamidi (download from courseware site)

• No class Jan. 22-24
  

• Class 3 (Jan. 29): Obligations regarding Surface Water and Lateral and Subjacent Support
  
  • CB 333-66 (Armstrong, Noone, Friendswood Development, notes)
    

• Class 4 (Jan. 31): Obligations regarding Quiet Enjoyment
  
  • CB 368-83, 384-403 (Page County Appliance, Fancher, notes, Fontainebleu
    Hotel, materials on Law and Economics)

II.  Acquisition and Apportionment of Property

• Class 5 (Feb. 5): Land and “First in Time”
  
  • CB 97-116, 120-21 (M’Intosh, Tee-Hit-Ton, Sioux Nation, notes)
    
  • Delgaamukw v. British Columbia (download from courseware site)
    

• No class Feb. 7
  

• Class 6 (Feb. 12): Land, Markets, Recording Acts, and Mortgage Basics
  
  • CB 71-80 (DePeyster, notes)
    
  • Skim CB 835-43 (Structure of the Transaction)
    
  • CB 872-85 (Formalities, Recording Acts, Sabo, notes)
    
  • CB 893-97, 904-06 (Mortgages, Central Financial Services)
    

• Class 7 (Feb. 14): The Subprime Mortgage
  Crisis
  
  • CB 897-901, 907-13 (Origins of the Crisis, M&T Mortgage Corp., notes)
    
  • CB 84-95 (Fremont Investment & Loan, notes)
    
  • In re Agard (download from courseware site)
    
  • U.S. Bank v. Ramjit (download from courseware site)
    
  • Saving D.C. Homes from Foreclosure Emergency Amendment Act of 2010 (download
    from courseware site)

• Class 8 (MAKEUP, Fri., Feb. 15): Natural Resources
  
  • CB 152-167 (Pierson, Popov, notes, Elliff, and materials on water)
    
  • Colorado v. New Mexico (download from courseware site)

• No class Feb. 19 (Faculty Retreat) or Feb. 21 (Monday schedule)
  

• Class 9 (Feb. 26): Slavery; Biological Materials
  
  • CB 256-61 (Dred Scott, The Antelope, notes)
    
  • CB 231-39 (Moore, notes)

• Class 10 (Feb. 28): Intellectual Property
  
  • CB 131-44 (INS, notes)
    
  • CBS v. Nash (download from courseware site)
    
  • Boston Professional Hockey Ass'n v. Dallas Cap & Emblem (download from courseware site)
    
  • Virtual Works v. Volkswagen of America (download from courseware site)
    

III.  Property and Social Ordering

• Class 11 (Mar. 12): From Trespass to Adverse Possession
  
  • CB 281-302 (Brown, Romero, Nome 2000, notes)
    
  • J.A. Pye (Oxford) Ltd. v. United Kingdom (download from courseware site)
    
  • Skim CB 304-09 (Justifications)

• Class 12 (Mar. 14): Prescription; Customary Rights; Easements and Changing Land Uses
  
  • CB 311-19 (Community Feed Store, notes)
    
  • CB 56-65 (Matthews, notes)
  • CB 452-74 (formal requirements, Green, Cox, Henley, notes)

• Class 13 (MAKEUP, Fri., Mar. 15): Improvements; Boundary Settlement; Equitable Easements
  
  • CB 319-29 (introductory materials, Somerville, notes, materials on boundary settlement)
    
  • CB 423-46 (introductory materials, Holbrook, Rase, notes, Granite Properties)
    

• Class 14 (Mar. 19): Covenants and Commercial Ordering
  
  • CB 475-500 (Winn-Dixie, Kotseas, Davidson, notes)
    
  • CB 573-80 (Davidson again, notes)

• Class 15 (Mar. 21): Covenants and Communal Ordering
  
  • CB 541-51 (Shelley, Evans, notes)
    
  • CB 501-18 (Evans, Sanborn, Riley, Blevins, notes)

• No class Mar. 26
  

• Class 16 (Mar. 28): Termination of Covenants; Common Interest Communities
  
  • CB 519-40 (El Di, Blakeley, Appel, notes)
    
  • CB 565-71 (Woodside Village, notes)
    
  • CB 583-91 (O’Buck, Neuman, notes)

• Class 17 (Apr. 2): Creation, Termination, and Transfer of Leaseholds
  
  • CB 733-36, 743-46 (notes 1-5)
    
  • CB 770-81 (Conflicts About Rent, Sommer, notes)
    
  • CB 750-68 (The College Block, Kendall, Slavin, notes)

• Class 18 (Apr. 4): Tenants’ Right to Habitable Premises
  
  • CB 782-806 (Minjak, Blackett, Javins, URLTA, notes)
    
  • CB 823-28 (URLTA, notes)

• Class 19 (MAKEUP, Fri., Apr. 5): Fair Housing Law
  
  • CB 925-36, 939-43 (FHA, Asbury, notes 1-7)
    
  • CB 955-60 (LaBrie, notes)
    
  • Fair Housing Council v. Roommate.com (download from courseware site)
    
  • CB 978-80 (Reasonable Accommodation)

• Class 20 (Apr. 12): Common Ownership
  
• • CB 663-88 (introductory materials, Olivas, Carr, Tenhet, Kresha, Sawada)
    

IV.  Property, Public Ordering, and the Constitution

• Class 21 (Apr. 11): Zoning
  
  • CB 1027-55 (Durand, Town of Belleville, Cochran, Stone, materials on zoning
    processes and limits, notes)
    
  • Anderson v. City of Issaquah (download from courseware site)
    

• Class 22 (Apr. 16): The Problem of Exclusionary Zoning
  
  • CB 984-92 (Huntington Branch, NAACP, notes)
    
  • CB 1014-26 (Mt. Laurel, notes)
    
  • CB 996-1003 (Village of Belle Terre, Charter Township of Delta,
    notes)

• Class 23 (Apr. 18): Eminent Domain; Origins of the “Regulatory Takings”
  Problem
  
  • CB 1071-1096 (Kelo, State Law, Just Compensation, notes)
    
  • CB  1097-1103 (Historical Origins)

• Class 24 (MAKEUP, Fri., Apr. 19): Regulatory Takings, part 1
  
  • CB 1103-23 (Miller, Penn Central, notes 1-6)
    
  • CB 1128-42 (PruneYard, Loretto, notes 1-6)

• Class 25 (Apr. 23): Regulatory Takings, part 2
  
  • CB 1144-68 (Lucas, Palazzolo, Tahoe-Sierra, notes)

• Class 26 (Apr. 25): Development Exactions
  
  • CB 1188-1205 (Dolan, notes)