Property

This highly respected and widely used casebook -- long recognized by both students and instructors as one of the best available for any course -- continues to offer a dynamic and distinctive introduction to the law of property. Carefully preserving the excellent foundation created by original authors the late Jesse Dukeminier and James Krier, PROPERTY, Sixth Edition, incorporates a wealth of new material. What makes PROPERTY such an ideal casebook? & a unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness & engaging structure that encompasses cases, text, questions, problems, visual illustrations, and examples & modular organization makes the book highly adaptable to a range of syllabi and equally well suited for use in property courses with different emphases and credit hours & distinctive sense of humor and human-interest perspective & comprehensive coverage of property topics, including in-depth treatment of estates and future interests, servitudes, and land-use controls & cases are enhanced and connected to broader legal principles by well-written notes, questions, and problems the authors employ an accessible 'economic lens' as a tool for thinking critically about property -- with the caveat that 'the economics in the book can be managed easily... even by the totally uninitiated; it can also be ignored or even scorned.