Property Law: Rules, Policies and Practices

By Nestor M. Davidson, Bethany R Berger, Joseph William Singer, et al.

Book Overview

Joseph Singer's comprehensive Property casebook enters its Third Edition with a reputation for classroom effectiveness and social relevance. Distinguished by its clear explanatory material, Property Law, Third Edition, serves as the foundation for an enlightening and engaging course. Students and instructors nationwide know they can depend on this respected casebook for: a unique viewpoint that combines a socially progressive sensibility with strong ethical coverage full coverage of traditional topics,, such as access, relation among neighbors, common ownership, leaseholds, real estate transactions, land use regulation, and takings, As well as nontraditional topics, such as tribal property, slavery, body parts, frozen embryos, and more cases and problems approach to teaching that promotes learning and class debate extraordinarily clear explication of property rules and concepts This extensive revision features new material as well as refinements and improvements: streamlined note material is more student-friendly a new chapter covers intellectual property as it relates To The Internet, biotechnology, and new reproductive technologies new major cases include A&M Records Inc. v. Napster, Upton v. JWP Businessland, Desnick v. ABC, Inc., Food Lion, Dale v. Boy Scouts of America and Boy Scouts of America v. Dale developments in the law, such as the adoption of the Restatement (Third) of Property (Servitudes) and its effects on the law of easements, covenants, and equitable servitudes, and likely changes To The Fair Housing Act, are incorporated throughout new problems based on recent cases stimulate class discussion

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735524920
• ISBN13: 9780735524927
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Aspen Law & Business
• Length: 1330 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 6.3" x 2.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

I had property this semester and this book was great. It has quite a few outlines that can be straight up copied and pasted into your outlines. The cases are abridged really well which keeps the reading assignments reasonable in length. The only negative comment I have about this book is that it does contain a certain amount of repetition. I wish the rest of my textbooks were this clear and concise.

Best law textbook on property you can get!

If you are looking for a property text, you cannot do better than this book. It is not only the best property textbook published right now, it is one of the finest legal textbooks I have had to read. The writing is clear and comprehensible, and the cases are well chosen: provocative while remaining good examples of Black Letter Law. My property class was the only section using Singer's book, and we are the only section that actually enjoyed the area of property law. This was not a coincidence.

You don't need a professor to teach you property law ...

... all you need is this textbook! Logically organized, comprehensive and explains complex concepts in a down-to-earth, easy-to-understand manner. The emphasis on the policy behind the rules is also extremely helpful. You won't need to buy a commercial outline with this book.

This is the best casebook I have ever read.

The true greatness of this casebook is that it renders hornbooks and other guides superfluous. It is a truly great casebook in an area of the law I thought would bore me to death. It is so good it makes some of those New Jersey cases almost palatable.

Most useful and interesting text on property law

In a field that is usually dry and obscure, this book brings together fascinating and timely problems, historical materials, and even works from imaginative literature. It also makes all the rules absolutely clear and easy to understand. For any student of property law, or law more generally, this is a must read!