Wrecking property rights: how cities use eminent domain to seize property for private developers
THE CORNER OF Country Club Drive and Main Street in Mesa, Arizona, doesn't look like much, but this dusty plot of land is at the center of a growing ...(keep on reading)
Yanking the rug on property rights
Byline: Joe Roybal editor Who would have thought it possible? Throughout history it's been a favorite tool of thuggish despots like Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. But not in the good, old USA. &quo(keep on reading)
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS: REGULATORY AND PHYSICAL TAKINGS AND THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE
Abstract: In Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, the Supreme Court held that, when a regulation has deprived a landowner of all economically beneficial ...(keep on reading)
Congress ponders `Federal Zoning Act': critics of the Community Character Act say its passage would lead to federal infringement on the rights of state
The $250 million proposal known benignly as the Community Character Act is small potatoes to Congress as five-year appropriations go. But it is huge ...(keep on reading)
Property as a Social Relation: Rights of "Kindness" and the Social Organization of Lobster Fishing among Northeastern Nova Scotian Scottish Gaels
This paper describes the informal system of property rights that characterizes the commercially valuable lobster fishery pursued in St. George's Bay, northeastern Nova Scotia, by the descendents of S(keep on reading)
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