2008-07-24 21:41:03 -

www.researchandmarkets.com - Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/research/23989f/supreme_neglect_h) has announced the addition of the "Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection For Private Property" report to their offering.

As far back as the Magna Carta in 1215, the right of private property was seen as a bulwark of the individual against the arbitrary power of

the state. Indeed, common-law tradition holds that "property is the guardian of every other right." And yet, for most of the last seventy years, property rights had few staunch supporters in America.

This latest addition to Oxford's Inalienable Rights series provides a succinct, pointed look at property rights in America--how they came to be, how they have evolved, and why they should once again be a mainstay of the law. Richard A. Epstein, the nation's pre-eminent authority on the subject, examines all aspects of private property--from real estate to air rights to intellectual property. He takes the reader from the strongly protective property rights advocated by the framers of the Constitution through to the weak property rights supported by Progressive and liberal politicians of the twentieth century and finally to our own time, which has seen a renewed appreciation of property rights in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's landmark Kelo v. New London decision in 2005. The author's own powerful defense of property rights threads through the narrative. Using both political theory and economic analysis, Epstein argues that above all that private property is a sound social institution, and not just an excuse for selfishness and greed. Only a system of private property lets people form and raise families, organize religious and other charitable organizations, and earn a living through honest labor.

Supreme Neglect offers a compact, incisive look at this hotly contested constitutional right, championing property rights as an essential social institution.

Key Topics Covered:

- Background Principles

- Private Property: Its Origins, Structure, and Utility

- The Generative Power of Constitutional Interpretation

- Physical Takings

- A Typology of Physical Takings

- Public Use

- Unjust Compensation

- Regulatory Takings

- A Matching Principle for Regulatory Takings

- Going Too Far: Mineral Rights

- Adventures in Land Use Regulation: Zoning and Landmark Preservation

- The Environmental Challenge

- The Exaction Game

- Rate Regulation

- Intellectual Property

- Final Reflections

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Source: Oxford University Press

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