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.'
• extensive Teacher's Manual that answers every question and problem in the casebook, provides brief comments, and offers deeper analysis and observations

Changes for the Sixth Edition reflect meticulous updating:

• James Krier is joined by new coauthors Gregory Alexander and Michael Schill in integrating new developments while carefully retaining the distinctive character of this highly successful casebook
• Intellectual Property materials are substantially revised to incorporate cases recommended by users and decrease the emphasis on cyberspace
• the Takings chapter is fully updated with new developments and recent Supreme Court cases, including Tahoe Sierra and Kelo v. New London
• chapters on Estates and Future Interests are shortened by deleting older materials on the Rule Against Perpetuities (RAP) and adding newer materials on the RAP and Dynastic Trusts
• real estate transaction coverage is enhanced by: a shorter, more up-to-date description of a typical transaction; an updated sales contract; a new section on brokers with a case on broker fiduciary duty; new text on multiple listing services, antitrust implications, and broker commissions; e-signatures and the statute of frauds; remedies for breach of real estate sales contracts, including two new cases on the calculation of damages, rescission, and retention of deposit; and new emphasis on how the law of real property differs from the law of contracts and the UCC
• prudent trimming of the materials on Equitable Servitudes, particularly on touch and concern and vertical privity requirements
• for professors who prefer to devote less time to future interests, a new, optional 'short form' version appears in the completely updated Teacher's Manual

Visit the companion website for Property, Sixth Edition, where you can find more information about the book and authors.

It's not all fun, of course, but even brain-paining topics like future estates are deftly handled in a few pithy pages without too much unnecessary commentary.

I would say that this is a worthy standard for any legal casebook to meet, but I'm not sure about that. If every law school text were designed with the kind of thought and care that this one was, our country's law schools might be even more overcrowded than they already are.


Great deal on 'Property'   August 22, 2009
SaltAMonte (Provo, UT)
I got a book in great condition for 1/4 the price at my school's bookstore! I would definitely buy from this seller again.


Book in great shape - not a mark   January 23, 2010
Emerich F. Gutter
The book was delivered to me on time, without a single mark in it - just like new. Thanks!


As exciting as a property book can get   February 7, 2010
sperrypt (Ohio)
This being my second book on property law (the first being Fundamentals of Modern Property Law), I have to say that it is decent look into the structure of the legal systems property laws. Property provides decent cases to allow for an understanding of the basic concepts and relies on the Restatement Third to show where the law is headed. Outside of that that, it also deals with a commentary like writing to also provide some common law historical footprints to give some evolution or incite to why courts rule the way they do.

When it is all said and done though, you have to realize that this is from a students perspective, so the book is ok compared to what I had before. There are issues though where you have cases that only provide a minorities perspective and have to rely on the instructor or knowledge to what the majorities perspective is (or statute). It is much clearer than the other book I have used and as a bonus to students, it provides diagrams and pictures on some more complicated cases to help create a visualization (plus who doesn't like pictures)