PROPERTY § B
Professor Cyril A. Fox University of Pittsburgh School of Law Spring 2004 Room 113 — M T W Th 10:00 A.M.
		"There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises to the external things of the world, in the total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the origin and foundation of this right. Pleased as we may be with the possession, we seem to be afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired, as if fearful of some defects in our title; or at best we rest satisfied with the decision of the laws in our favor, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built."          Sir William Blackstone

The text for this course is J. Gordon Hylton, David L. Callies, Daniel Mandelker, and Paula A. Franzese, Property Law and the Public Interest (2nd ed. 2003 LexisNexis). There are also some excellent outside sources to help you with particular problems.

Your Grade:  Your grade for this course will be based on a final 3 hour closed book examination at the end of the the semester. It is schduled for Thursday morning, May 8, 2003.

For an interesting description of the developing law of property in the Peoples Republic of China from the vuew of an American expert, see Property Law in China in 2003, Written Statement of Patrick A. Randolph, Jr., Elmer E. Pierson Professor of Real Estate Law, University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law before the Joint Congressional Executive Committee on China, Property Rights Roundtable, February 3, 2003.