Property Law: Ownership, Use, and Conservation

by Paul Goldstein, Barton Thompson Jr

Building on Paul Goldstein's earlier, highly successful casebook on Real Property Law, this casebook is designed for the faculty member who wants to cover not only traditional property issues but also emerging environmental issues in the management of land and other resources. Property lawyers are increasingly engaged in environmental issues -- whether it be the increased interest in conservation easements, national regulation of land use through such statutes as the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act, problems of hazardous waste cleanup, pressures to open private land to public use through the public trust doctrine and other legal mechanisms, or dozens of other environmental additions to traditional property law. This new casebook is the first to provide significant materials on emerging and important environmental issues in the property field. It provides an in-depth treatment of traditional property doctrines, while providing cutting-edge coverage of these emerging envir

1280 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 2006

About the author

Paul Goldstein is a writer, lawyer, and the Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. His novel "Havana Requiem" received the 2013 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.

Series:
* Michael Seeley Mystery

Reviews

[Rex · Rating 2 out of 5]

I haven't shopped for other property law textbooks, but there must be something better out there. The explanations were not very clear and the selection of cases seemed obscure.