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Law's Limits Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights

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ISBN-10: 0521000866

ISBN-13: 9780521000864

Edition: 2001

Authors: Neil K. Komesar

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This text looks at the interaction of certain factors, in the context of US property rights law and the debates about private property and the rule of law, to paint an unconventional picture of law and rights shifting and cycling as systemic factors.
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Preface
The Basic Framework
Supply and Demand
The Spectrum of Rights
Boomer--The Common Law and Institutional Choice
The Market versus the Courts
The Political Process versus the Courts
Generating the Spectrum
Some General Lessons
Communities, Markets, Participation, and Methodology
Conclusion
The Supply Side--The Little Engine of Law and Rights
The Adjudicative Process
Numbers, Complexity, and the Dynamics of Litigation
Numbers, Complexity, and Class Actions
Conclusion
Land Use and Rights
Zoning and Its Discontents--Political Malfunction and the Demand for Rights
Conflicting Visions of Under- and Overregulation
The Two-Force Model of Politics: Fear of the Few and Fear of the Many
Judicial Responses
Conclusion
Just Compensation--The Problems of Judicial Pricing
The Limits of Lucas
The Proposals
The Demand Side: Just Compensation and Political Malfunction
The Supply Side: The Courts and Just Compensation
The Strange World of Nollan and Dolan
Conclusion
High Stakes Players and Hidden Markets
Focusing on Majoritarian Bias and Ending the Villain Hunt
Dealing with Majoritarian Bias
Conclusion
Law's Laws
Theories of Property--From Coase to Communitarianism
The Evolution and Function of Property: The Economic Theory of Property Rights
The Search for Communities
Communities and Norms Meet Numbers and Complexity
Conclusion
Numbers, Complexity, and the Rule of Law
Shifts and Cycles: The Decreasing Likelihood of Stable and Certain Law
Confronting the Supply Side: Images and Realities of Courts
Confronting the Demand Side: Communitarians versus the Rule of Law
Conclusion
Changes
Changing Legal Analysis
Changing Legal Education and Discourse
Changing Economics
Law Around the World
Law's Future
Breaking the Cycle
References
Index