BOOKS
Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life (University of Chicago Press, 2019) [excerpts & reviews]
Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy (editor and introduction author, with Benjamin J. Keys) (Cambridge University Press, 2017) [Open Access] [contents & more]
Fairness in Law and Economics (volume editor and introduction author, with Richard H. McAdams) (Edward Elgar, 2013) [contents & more]
The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines (Yale University Press, 2009; rights reverted to author July 13, 2023) [full text] [reviews]
Property as Service Streams, in Handbook on Property Law & Theory (Chris Bevan, ed.) (Edward Elgar, forthcoming)
Property as the Law of Complements, in Research Handbook on Private Law Theory 155 (Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky, eds.) (Edward Elgar, 2020).
Owning Bad: Leverage and Spite in Property Law, in Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law 415 (Paul B. Miller & John Oberdiek, eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Commons, Anticommons, Semicommons, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law 35 (Kenneth Ayotte & Henry E. Smith, eds.) (Edward Elgar, 2011)
Possession Puzzles, The Third in the Wolf Family Lecture Series on the American Law of Real Property, in 11-1 Powell on Real Property WFL10-1 (Michael Allan Wolf, ed., 2010)
Exclusion’s Attraction: Land Use Controls in Tieboutian Perspective, in The Tiebout Model at Fifty: Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates 163 (William Fischel, ed.) (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 2006)
Hyperopia in Public Finance, in Behavioral Public Finance 141 (Edward J. McCaffery & Joel Slemrod, eds.) (Russell Sage, 2006)
Unpacking the Gift: Illiquid Goods and Empathetic Dialogue, in The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines 85 (Mark Osteen, ed.) (Routledge, 2002)
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND WORKING PAPERS
Optional Price Discrimination, Tex. A&M L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023)
The Gun and the Paperweight: Risk Control Services and Disservices, 15 Journal of Tort Law 67 (2022)
Streaming Property, 117 Nw. U. L. Rev. 95 (2022)
Escape Room: Implicit Takings After Cedar Point Nursery, 17 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y 1 (2022) reprinted in 2023 Zoning & Planning Law Handbook (Patricia Salkin, ed.)
Visibility and Indivisibility in Resource Arrangements, 36 J. Land Use & Env’t L. 297 (2021)
Remixing Resources, 38 Yale J. on Regulation 589 (2021)
Sizing Up Categories, 22 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 1 (2021)
Property Beyond Exclusion, 61 William & Mary L. Rev. 521 (2019)
Inversion Aversion (with Richard H. McAdams), 86 U. Chi. L. Rev. 797 (2019)
Personalizing Precommitment, 86 U. Chi. L. Rev. 433 (2019)
Accidents and Aggregates, 59 William & Mary L. Rev. 2371 (2018)
Searching for Fair Housing, 97 B.U. L. Rev. 349 (2017)
Fee Simple Obsolete, 91 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1457 (2016)
The Distributive Deficit in Law and Economics (with Richard H. McAdams), 100 Minn. L. Rev. 1051 (2016)
Agglomerama, 2014 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1373 (2015)
Slicing Spontaneity, 100 Iowa L. Rev. 2365 (2015)
Do Not Cite or Circulate, 18 Green Bag 2d 151 (2015)
Co-location, Co-location, Co-location: Land Use and Housing Priorities Reimagined, 39 Vermont L. Rev. 925 (2015) (Norman Williams lecture)
Forcings, 114 Colum. L. Rev. 1297 (2014)
Exactions Creep (with Eduardo M. Peñalver) 2013 Supreme Court Review 287
Partition and Revelation (with Yun-chien Chang), 81 U Chi. L. Rev. 27 (2014)
Crowdsourcing Land Use, 78 Brooklyn L. Rev. 385 (2013)
The Problem of Resource Access, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1471 (2013)
Property in Housing, 12 Academia Sinica L.J. 31 (2013)
Picturing Takings, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 57 (2012)
Options for Owners and Outlaws, 1 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conf. J. 239 (2012)
Lumpy Property, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1955 (2012)
Property and Precaution, 4(2) Journal of Tort Law, art. 3 (2011)
Willpower Taxes, 99 Georgetown L.J. 1371 (2011)
Unbundling Risk, 60 Duke L.J. 1285 (2011)
Controlling Residential Stakes (with Julie Roin), 77 U. Chi. L. Rev. 143 (2010)
Willpower and Legal Policy, 5 Ann. Rev. of Law & Social Science 91 (2009)
Adjusting Alienability, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 1403 (2009)
Homeownership 2.0, 102 Northwestern Univ. L. Rev. 1047 (2008)
Property and Half-Torts, 116 Yale L.J. 1400 (2007)
Properties of Concentration, 73 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1227 (2006)
Efficient Trespass: The Case for “Bad Faith” Adverse Possession, 100 Northwestern Univ. L. Rev. 1037 (2006)
Taxation over Time (with Kirk J. Stark), 59 Tax Law Review 1 (2005)
Revealing Options, 118 Harv. L. Rev. 1399 (2005)
Taking Eminent Domain Apart, 2004 Mich. St. L. Rev. 957 (2004)
Contracting Communities, 2004 U. Ill. L. Rev. 829 (2004)
Common Interest Tragedies, 98 Northwestern U. L. Rev. 907 (2004), reprinted in Vol II., Commons and Anticommons 5 (Michael Heller, ed., 2009).
Relative Burdens: Family Ties and the Safety Net, 45 William & Mary L. Rev. 1453 (2004)
Fear and Greed in Tax Policy: A Qualitative Research Agenda (with Christopher C. Fennell), 13 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y 75 (2003)
Death, Taxes, and Cognition, 81 North Carolina L. Rev. 567 (2003)
Beyond Exit and Voice: User Participation in the Production of Local Public Goods, 80 Texas L. Rev. 1 (2001)
Hard Bargains and Real Steals: Land Use Exactions Revisited, 86 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (2000), reprinted in 2001 Zoning & Planning Law Handbook 525 (Patricia Salkin, ed., 2001); 33 Land Use & Environment L. Rev. 3 (A. Dan Tarlock & David Callies, eds., 2002)
Between Monster and Machine: Rethinking the Judicial Function, 51 South Carolina L. Rev. 183 (1999)
Interdependence and Choice in Distributive Justice: The Welfare Conundrum, 1994 Wisconsin L. Rev. 235 (1994)
Optimality in Fourth Amendment Law, 27 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 473 (1990)
COMMENTARIES AND REVIEWS
Residents Against Housing: A Response to Professor Infranca’s ‘Differentiating Exclusionary Tendencies,’ 72 Fla. L. Rev. F. 171 (2023)
Pattern Recognition in Tyus v. Urban Search Management, 87 U. Chi. L. Rev. 2339 (2020) (symposium in honor of Judge Diane Wood)
Go Configure, U. Chi. L. Rev. Online (March 30, 2020) (introduction to online symposium on Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life (2019))
Property Attachments, 87 U Chicago L. Rev. Online 55 (2019) (comment on Eric A. Posner & E. Glen Weyl, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism for a Just Society (Princeton University Press, 2018)).
Spread the Wealth, or Spread the Wealthy? in The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity, Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil, eds. 59 (Columbia University Press, 2019) (comment on Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff, No Neighborhood Is an Island, in The Dream Revisited, supra, at 56).
Because and Effect: Another Take on Inclusive Communities, 68 Stan. L. Rev. Online 85 (2016) (response to Noah D. Zatz, The Many Meanings of “Because of”: A Comment on Inclusive Communities Project, 68 Stan. L. Rev. Online 68 (2015)).
Just Enough, 113 Colum. L. Rev. Sidebar 109 (2013) (response to Brian Angelo Lee, Just Undercompensation: The Idiosyncratic Premium in Eminent Domain, 113 Colum. L. Rev. 593 (2013))
Ostrom’s Law: Property Rights in the Commons, 5 International J. of the Commons 9 (2011)
Odds and Ends: An Epstein-Inspired Look at Luck, 44 Tulsa Law Review 779 (2009)
Scaling Property with Professor Ellickson, 18 Wm & Mary Bill of Rights J. 173 (2009)
Commentary on William A. Fischel, Political Structure and Exclusionary Zoning: Are Small Suburbs the Big Problem? in Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies, Gregory K. Ingram & Yu-Hung Hong, eds. (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2008)
Order with Outlaws? 156 U Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 269 (2007) (response to Eduardo Moisés Peñalver & Sonia K. Katyal, Property Outlaws, 155 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1095 (2007)).
Book Review (Robin Paul Malloy, Law in a Market Context: An Introduction to Market Concepts in Legal Reasoning (2004)), 55 J. Legal Educ. 295 (2005)
Homes Rule, 112 Yale L.J. 617 (2002) (review of William A. Fischel, The Homevoter Hypothesis: How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies (2001))