Readings in PDF format are here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
How do we come to own things that have never had an owner or that have been abandoned? What if two people each say they have done enough to be considered the owner of such things? In this episode, we start exploring these questions through the famous cases of Pierson v. Post and Ghen v. Rich.
We continue the discussion of lost and mislaid property and develop our first two Big Ideas: Precedential Reasoning and Fit and Justification. Slides here.
Cases! I discuss Armory v. Delamirie, Bridges v. Hawkesworth, McAvoy v. Medina, and Hamaker v. Blanchard.
Joe and I discuss the readings on legal arguments and theory, pages 13-32.
This episode, which covers pages 2-12 of the book, and the next episode are recordings with my friend and colleague, Joe Miller, which we made for an undergraduate course I teach. Future episodes, focusing on our property-specific studies, will almost always be just me talking to you all. But I thought as new students you would benefit from this broad overview.
Hi! In this short hello, I talk just a bit about what I hope you get from the introductory materials and what to expect from the first couple of episodes.
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The textbook readings are here: