Supreme neglect : how to revive constitutional protection for private property / Richard A. Epstein.

As far back as the Magna Carta in 1215, the right of private property was seen as a bulwark of the individual against the arbitrary power of the state. Indeed, common-law tradition holds that "property is the guardian of every other right." And yet, for most of the last seventy years, prop...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Epstein, Richard Allen, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Inalienable rights series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Private property : its origins, structure, and utility
  • The generative power of constitutional interpretation
  • A typology of physical takings
  • Public use
  • Unjust compensation
  • A matching principle for regulatory takings
  • Going too far : mineral rights
  • Adventures in land use regulation : zoning and landmark preservation
  • The environmental challenge
  • The exaction game
  • Rate regulation
  • Intellectual property
  • Final reflections.