Property Posts
The Institute in the Courts: Supreme Court of Nevada Adopts Sections of Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Servitudes)
Recently, in Moretto Trustee of the Jerome F. Moretto 2006 Trust v. ELK Point Country Club Homeowners Ass’n, Inc., 507 P.3d 199 (Nev. 2022), the Supreme Court of Nevada adopted Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Servitudes) §§ 6.7 and 6.9 “to govern issues concerning an association’s authority to enact rules regarding the restriction of individually owned property.”
A Defense of Horizontal Privity in American Property Law
This article attempts to present a balanced and nuanced view with two major aims: to show why many of the objections against horizontal privity are weak and to argue for why horizontal privity may be worth keeping.
The Perils and Promise of Public Nuisance
This article utilizes the opioid litigation to explore the three most common sets of objections to public nuisance: (1) traditionalist, (2) formalist, and (3) institutional. Public nuisance can seem unusual, even outlandish. At worst, it is a potentially capacious mechanism allowing executive branch actors to employ the judicial process to address legislative and regulatory problems. Nevertheless, its perils are easily overstated and its promise overlooked.
Project Updates from the 2022 ALI Annual Meeting
Learn more about the actions taken at this year’s ALI Annual Meeting, held last month, where the membership met to discuss and vote on twelve ALI project drafts.
Digitizing the Warranty of Habitability
The warranty of habitability was touted fifty years ago as a gamechanger in rebalancing power between tenants and landlords. This Article explores whether an affirmative use of the warranty, coupled with a new technology and community organizing approach, can improve tenant outcomes.
Property against Legality: Takings after Cedar Point
This Article uses a dramatic break in Takings jurisprudence, the Supreme Court’s June 2021 decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, to closely scrutinize the relationship between legality and property rights.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Civil Justice — Can Common Law Adjust to a Drone World?
The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School recently held an event discussing the increasing use of drone technology and its intersection with the law.
Event: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Civil Justice — Can Common Law Adjust to a Drone World?
On Feb. 18, the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School is hosting the free online event “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Civil Justice — Can Common Law Adjust to a Drone World?”
Zoning Reformed
The exposure of the weaknesses embedded in our system of public land use regulation during the crises of 2020 presents a unique and timely opportunity for serious consideration of major and minor adjustments to state statutes, local ordinances, and judicial decisions.
January 2022 Council Meeting Updates
At its meeting on January 20 and 21, 2022, the ALI Council reviewed and discussed Council Drafts of nine projects.