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A concise edition of the legendary casebook, Property: Concise Edition is perfectly suited for use in a four-credit course. Jesse Dukeminier’s trademark wit, passion, and human interest perspective has made Property, now in its Eighth Edition, one of the best—and best loved—casebooks of all time. A unique blend of authority and good humor, you’ll find a moveable feast of visual interest, compelling cases, and timely coverage of contemporary issues Features:. Substantially shorter than most Property casebooks.

Gift Cards; Help & Contact. Emanuel Law Outlines: Property, Dukeminier/Kri er Edition. PROPERTY: ADAPTABLE TO SIXTH EDITION OF DUKEMINIER CASEBOOK By.

The shortened number of pages does not come at the expense of coverage, which remains the same as in the parent book. The Notes have been substantially reduced, and the number of cases has been reduced, all without sacrificing coverage or rigor. Two-color design featuring photographs and diagrams. Pull-out Sidebar features including “In Brief,” “A Look Back,” and “The Rest of the Story” that aid in student learning, making the book very user-friendly. Increased use of diagrams and graphics to illustrate transactions and doctrines. New cases and new photos that differ from what was in the 7th Edition of Dukeminier: Property. As part of the program, ​ Property: Concise Editionis available in hardcover, looseleaf, and rental formats, all of which include lifetime access to CasebookConnect.

Used books sold by retailers may not include free access to CasebookConnect. The Connected Casebook rental program is available exclusively from. Summary of Contents Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note to Students about Supplementary Website PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO SOME FUNDAMENTALS Chapter 1. First Possession: Acquisition of Property by Discovery, Capture, and Creation Chapter 2. Subsequent Possession: Acquisition of Property by Find, Adverse Possession, and Gift PART II THE SYSTEM OF ESTATES (EXCLUDING LEASEHOLDS) Chapter 3.

Possessory Estates Chapter 4. Future Interests Chapter 5.

Co-ownership and Marital Interests PART III LEASEHOLDS: THE LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT Chapter 6. Tradition, Tension, and Change in Landlord-Tenant Law PART IV TRANSFERS OF LAND Chapter 7. The Land Transaction Chapter 8.

Title Assurance PART V LAND USE CONTROLS Chapter 9. Judicial Land Use Controls: The Law of Nuisance Chapter 10. Private Land Use Controls: The Law of Servitudes Chapter 11.

Legislative Land Use Controls: The Law of Zoning Chapter 12. Eminent Domain and the Problem of Regulatory Takings Appendix A Appendix B Table of Cases Author Index Subject Index. Author Information. Krier James E. Krier is the Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law. His teaching and research interests are primarily in the fields of property, environmental law and policy, and law and economics, and he teaches courses on contracts, property, trusts and estates, behavioral law and economics, and pollution policy.

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Professor Krier is the author or co-author of several books, including Environmental Law and Policy, Pollution and Policy, and Property (5th edition), while his recent articles have been published in the Harvard Law Review and the Supreme Court Economic Review. He earned his B.S. With honors and his J.D. With highest honors from the University of Wisconsin, where he was articles editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. After his graduation from law school in 1966 he served for one year as law clerk to the Hon. Traynor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, and then practiced law for two years with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. He was a professor of law at UCLA and Stanford before joining the Michigan Law faculty in 1983, and has been a visiting professor at both Harvard University Law School and Cardozo School of Law.

Schill Dean Michael Schill is a national expert on real estate and housing policy, deregulation, finance and discrimination. He has written or edited three books and over 40 articles on various aspects of housing, real estate and property law. He is an active member of a variety of public advisory councils, editorial boards and community organizations. Before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, Dean Schill was Dean and Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, the Wilf Family Professor in Property Law at New York University School of Law, and professor of urban planning at NYU’s Robert F.

Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. From 1994 to 2004, Dean Schill served as the director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Prior to that, Schill was a tenured professor of law and real estate at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

Alexander Professor Gregory Alexander, a nationally renowned expert in property and trusts and estates, has taught at Cornell Law School since 1985. Following his graduation from Northwestern University School of Law, he clerked for the Hon. George Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. After he completed further study as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, Alexander became a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he remained until coming to Cornell. An active member of the academic community, Professor Alexander has served as Reporter to the Uniform Ante-Mortem Probate of Wills Act Project, chaired sections on Donative Transfers and Property for the Association of American Law Schools, and appeared fifteen times in Who's Who in American Law.

Alexander remains a prolific and recognized writer, the winner of the American Publishers Association's 1997 Best Book of the Year in Law award for his work, Commodity and Propriety. Professor Alexander is also author of The Global Debate Over Constitutional Property, published by University of Chicago Press (2006), and Community and Property (with Eduardo Penalver), published by Oxford University Press (2009). Jesse Dukeminier Jesse Dukeminier is the late Maxwell Professor of Law at UCLA Law School.

A professor of law at UCLA for over 40 years, Jesse Dukeminier was renowned for his contributions to the field of property law. His casebooks on property and wills, trusts and estates are among the most widely-used in the country in their fields. For four decades, Dukeminier was widely respected by students and was honored twice as professor of the year by the UCLA School of Law's graduating classes. Dukeminier received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Teaching and became the first UCLA Law faculty member to receive a University Distinguished Teaching Award. He also received the School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dukeminier was born in West Point, Mississippi and studied at Harvard University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1948.

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He received his law degree from Yale in 1951 and practiced law with a Wall Street firm. Dukeminier joined UCLA in 1963. He also taught at the University of Kentucky, and he visited at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Lior Jacob Strahilevitz Lior Strahilevitz received his BA in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996, graduating with highest honors. He received his JD in 1999 from Yale Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following his graduation, he clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

He then practiced law in Seattle before joining the law school faculty in 2002. He was tenured in 2007 and served as the Law School's Deputy Dean from 2010 to 2012. In 2011, he was named the inaugural Sidley Austin Professor of Law. His teaching and research interests include property and land use, privacy, intellectual property, law and technology, and motorist behavior.

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