DoubleChecks wrote:GeePee wrote:Okay, I'm halfway through first semester, and many of my classes are coming together nicely (except LRW, where getting back a memo where the few corrections on my memo were the things I was advised to change after my draft

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However, I can't seem to make sense out of Property. In Civil Procedure, I have the chronological procedure of the lawsuit, in Torts, the elements of intentional and negligent torts and the policies behind them, in Contracts, the major elements of every contract or their excepted replacement. In property I have distinct concepts which seem fairly close to unbridgeable, except through the undergraduate econ courses I took on incentivization. Is there any way of making sense of the overall framework of property, so I don't feel like I have to learn to separately apply 50 discrete pieces of black letter law to fact patterns?
curious, what general topics has your section's property prof covered so far? ours is a cold call machine...which i thought id dread at first, but ive come to really enjoy it haha. im always focused and we spend a lot of time on 1 case/topic so there arent that many concepts covered.
We've covered Original Acquisition (first possession, discovery, creation, accession), Chain of Title, Adverse Possession, and Limits of Sovereignty (licenses, bailments, self-help, public trust, custom). If I had to list some themes of our class, I would make them out to be:
When does an owner have a right to exclude?
What rights does the public have to property vs. a private owner?
Why do we have property rights?
Ease of application vs. substantial justice
But they all seem fairly nebulous and only apply to smaller subsets of topics. Oh, and we're exactly the opposite on classroom administration -- hardly any cold calling, tons of ridiculous questions, tangents galore. Everything that really makes you want to turn on g-chat and turn your brain off, even though I resist....