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Takings
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Online2026
Property Rights v. Taxpayer Rights: The Battle Over Tax Foreclosures
Local governments rely on property taxes to fund many essential public services. Owners who do not pay the taxes impose an increased burden on…
Stewart E. Sterk -
Online2026
Land-Grant Universities
In their groundbreaking High Country News article on “land-grab universities,” Robert Lee and Tristian Ahtone argue that Congress’s 1862 Morrill Act, which famously granted…
Michael Banerjee -
ArticleVol. 102 · Iss. 2
Water Law Transitions in the Era of Climate Change
Although legal transitions—changes in legislation, regulations, or judicial decisions—are an inevitable part of legal progress, there are certain areas of the law where reform…
Luis Inaraja Vera -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 2
A Reign of Error: Property Rights and Stare Decisis
ABSTRACT Mistakes matter in law, even the smallest ones. What would happen if a small but substantively meaningful typographical error appeared in the earliest…
Michael Allan Wolf -
ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Future-Proofing Energy Transport Law
The U.S. energy system is critical to every aspect of the nation’s economy and daily life. That energy system, in turn, is completely dependent…
Alexandra B. Klass -
ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 2
Taking Groundwater
In February 2012, in a case called Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day, the Texas Supreme Court held that landowners hold property rights to the…
Dave Owen -
ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 6
The Ancient Mariner of Constitutional Law: The Historical, Yet Declining Role of Navigability
“Navigability”—the degree to which a particular water body can be used by various boats and other watercraft—has a long, important history in federal constitutional…
Robert W. Adler -
ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 2
Airspace and the Takings Clause
This Article argues that the United States Supreme Court’s takings jurisprudence fails to account for instances when public entities restrict private airspace solely to…
Troy A. Rule