I.  The Interdependence of Property Rights

• Class 1 (Jan. 17): 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. 19): 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)

• Class 3 (Jan. 24): Obligations regarding Surface Water and Lateral and Subjacent Support
• CB 333-66 (Armstrong, Noone, Friendswood Development, notes)

• Class 4 (Jan. 26): 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 (Jan. 31): 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)

• Class 6 (Feb. 2): 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 (MAKEUP, Fri., Feb. 3): 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 (Feb. 7): Natural Resources
• CB 152-167 (Pierson, Popov, notes, Elliff, and materials on water)
• Colorado v. New Mexico (download from courseware site)

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

• Class 10 (MAKEUP, Fri., Feb. 10): Copyright; Facts; Rights of Publicity
• CB 194-99 (Copyright Act, Feist)
• Nash v. CBS (download from courseware site)
• CB 131-44 (INS, notes)
• Boston Professional Hockey Ass’n v. Dallas Cap & Emblem (download from courseware site)

• Class 11 (Feb. 14): Domain Names; Rights of Publicity
• Virtual Works v. Volkswagen of America (download from courseware site)
• CB 241-52 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, notes)
• Midler v. Ford Motor Co. (download from courseware site)
• Dwyer v. American Express (download from courseware site)

III.  Property and Social Ordering

• Class 12 (Feb. 16): From Trespass to Adverse Possession
• CB 281-302 (Brown, Romero, Nome 2000, notes)
• CB 328-29 (materials on boundary settlement)
• J.A. Pye (Oxford) Ltd. v. United Kingdom (download from courseware site)
• Skim CB 304-09 (Justifications)

• Class 13 (Feb. 28): Prescriptive Easements; Customary Rights; Improvements
• CB 311-19 (Community Feed Store, notes)
• CB 56-65 (Matthews, notes)
• CB 319-27 (Somerville, notes)
• CB 330-31 (materials on personal property)

• Class 14 (Mar. 1): Licenses, Easements, and Changing Land Uses
• CB 423-39 (introductory materials, Holbrook, Rase, notes)
• CB 452-74 (Statute of Frauds, Green, Cox, Henley, notes)

• Class 15 (Mar. 13 [11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.]): Covenants and Commercial Ordering
• CB 475-500 (Winn-Dixie, Kotseas, Davidson, notes)
• CB 573-80 (Davidson again, notes)

• Class 16 (Mar. 15): Covenants and Communal Ordering
• CB 541-51 (Shelley, Evans, notes)
• CB 501-18 (Evans, Sanborn, Riley, Blevins, notes)

• Class 17 (Mar. 20): 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 18 (Mar. 22): Creation, Termination, and Transfer of Leaseholds
• CB 733-36, 743-45 (notes 1-4)
• CB 770-81 (Conflicts About Rent, Sommer, notes)
• CB 750-68 (The College Block, Kendall, Slavin, notes)

• No class Mar. 27-29

• Class 19 (Apr. 3): Tenants’ Right to Habitable Premises
• CB 782-806 (Minjak, Blackett, Javins, URLTA, notes)
• CB 823-28 (URLTA, notes)

• Class 20 (Apr. 5): Fair Housing Law
• CB 925-36, 939-43 (FHA, Asbury, notes 1-7)
• CB 946-48 (Civil Rights Act, Greene, problems)
• CB 955-60 (LaBrie, notes)
• Fair Housing Council v. Roommate.com (download from courseware site)
• CB 978-80 (Reasonable Accommodation)

IV.  Property, Public Ordering, and the Constitution

• Class 21 (Apr. 10): 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)
• Old Georgetown materials (download from courseware site)

• Class 22 (Apr. 12): 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. 17): Eminent Domain; Origins of the “Regulatory Takings” Problem
• CB 1071-1096 (Kelo, State Law, Just Compensation, notes)
• CB  1097-1103 (Historical Origins)

• Class 24 (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. 24): Regulatory Takings, part 2
• CB 1144-68 (Lucas, Palazzolo, Tahoe-Sierra, notes)

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