Property: Concise Edition 3rd Edition by Jesse Dukeminier, ISBN-13: 978-1543826319

Description

• Format: PDF
• Publisher: ‎ Wolters Kluwer; 3rd edition (November 1, 2020)
• Language: ‎ English
• 760 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1543826318
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1543826319

A concise edition of the legendary casebook, Property: Concise Edition, Third 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 Ninth 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.

The updated third edition includes extremely relevant updates featuring:

• New Cases:
  • Supreme Court cases–U.S. Patent Office v. Booking.com: This is a major new trademark case; Murr v. Wisconsin: takings case
  • Other new cases–Commonwealth v. Magadini (Mass. S. Jud. CT. trespass case, replaces State v. Shack); Mund v. English (easement by estoppel case, replacing Kienzle v. Myers); more
  • Note cases: City of Boise (recent 9th Cir. decision regarding rights of homeless persons to housing); Cowpasture River Preservation (2020 U.S. S. Ct. decision re easement or fee in Atlantic Coast Pipeline controversy); Friends of Danny DeVito v. Wolf (2020 Pa. S. Ct. decision re takings attack on temporary COVID business moratorium)
• New Topics:
  • COVID-19: implications of COVID for various aspects of Property law, e.g., moratoria on tenant evictions, mortgage foreclosure, takings law
  • Property rights of those experiencing homelessness
  • Legal matters regarding shared housing/Airbnb
  • African-American “heirs’ property” and partition
• Revisions/Clarifications:
  • Revised and clarified aspects of Chapter 10 (Servitudes)
  • More on the Fair Housing Act
  • Some new problems in Chapter 6 (Landlord/Tenant)
• New Photos and Graphics:
  • Detailed graphics on redlining

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. 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.