This volume reviews case law and literature on takings, provides a theoretical analysis of the subject and discusses its applications to environmental protection and resource use.
This landmark work is the first book-length treatment of "regulatory taking" the controversial legal concept that governmental regulation of private property use can amount to a "taking" that requires compensation....
The 5th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from taking private property for public use without paying the owner just compensation.
This book is the first large-scale effort devoted to this controversial issue, providing a vast platform of comparative knowledge on direct, indirect, categorical, and partial takings.
For instance, price controls seek to influence the nature of the prices that the market process would generate absent that intervention. Similarly, zoning laws, which are regulations that restrict the uses of land and buildings, ...
While much has been gained from the traditional legal scholars' doctrinal mode of analysis of the takings issue, this volume is presented in the belief that contributions from scholars from the various schools of thought that comprise Law ...
Protecting Private Property Rights from Regulatory Takings: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary,...
"Summary of federal court regulatory takings jurisprudence ripeness under Williams County, the principal feature of Knick, the exceptions to total taking: nuisance and background principles of a state's law of property"--
As I have noted elsewhere in this book , modern political economy has often focused on how less - than - majority interest groups appropriate government largess ( William Niskanen 1971 ; George Stigler 1971 ) .
This law school study aid contains the history and cases related to the Takings Clause of the United States Constitution. The authors bring their long-time teaching experience to this important area.
Regulatory Takings: Restoring Private Property Rights