Property: Cases and Materials, Third Edition (Aspen Casebook)

The Third Edition has been heavily updated with recent cases, including more cases from the 21st century than any other major property casebook. A thorough update of all existing materials includes improved coverage of natural resources law and intellectual property.

Features:

• covers "old property" (e.g. basics of real estate law) and "new property" (e.g. developments in intellectual property law) in one volume
• provokes debate on fundamental questions from multiple perspectives
  • the creation of property
  • information as property
  • collective v. individual rights
  • property as related to other bodies of law
• coverage of intellectual property shows how a the law responds to social and technological changes
• flexible organization--stand-alone chapters may be omitted under time constraints
• transitional and explanatory notes enable student understanding of cases and readings
• includes appellate decisions, statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, law review articles, and non-legal materials
• explores principal cases
  • Elvis Presley International Memorial Foundation v. Crowell (on the right of publicity)
  • Panavision International, L.P. v. Toeppen (on rights in Internet domain names)
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (on rights in human beings, the role of social values in defining property)
  • Popov v. Hayashi (on the dispute over the Barry Bonds home run ball)

Thoroughly updated, the revised Third Edition presents:

• many new recent cases including more cases from the 21st century than any other major property casebook
• improved coverage of natural resources law and intellectual property