This book is the first large-scale effort devoted to this controversial issue, providing a vast platform of comparative knowledge on direct, indirect, categorical, and partial takings.

This book is simultaneously a story of a troubled people and an analysis of protest, violence, and challenge to the state authority. The setting is Japan and the instance is the controversial building of the Tokyo International Airport.

From the bestselling author of "Still life with bread crumbs." This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable.

As Ian Angus documents in The War Against the Commons, mass opposition to dispossession has never ceased.

Ackerman argues that there is more at stake in the present wave of litigation than even the future shape of environmental law in the United States.

During the Depression, eleven-year-old Carrie makes her annual summer visit to her relatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains and watches her determined grandfather fight against the government's attempt to take his farm land for a new national ...

Ilya Somin s "The Grasping Hand: "Kelo v. New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain" is the definitive review of one of the most controversial Supreme Court cases of the 21st century.

Fire on the Mountain Grandfather John Vogelin's land is his life -- a barren stretch of New Mexican wilderness, mercifully bypassed by civilization.

Practical, theoretical and historical approach to constitutional rights to property in Commonwealth countries.