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| Authors: James E. Krier, Michael H. Schill, Gregory S. Alexander
Creator: Jesse Dukeminier
Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $142.00
Buy New: $141.58
You Save: $0.42
Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 594
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1094
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0735557926
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.7304
EAN: 9780735557925
Publication Date: March 30, 2006
Availability: Pre-Order (0-0 Business Days)
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| Customer Reviews:
 It's not like you have a choice February 13, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Yes, that is the sad truth of casebooks, regardless of what I put here you will be paying too much for it. What would Posner say about that choice?
Well, I agree with other reviewers that this is a very well written casebook, the editors do a good job of tying their little infuriating hypotheticals and questions into the text.
On the other hand, Aspen casebooks are horrible. You are going to have red and black paint all over anything that touches these crappy books and they are going to fall apart the second time you open them.
However, this property book is exciting because it is so small. It is much smaller than your average casebook and fits snugly in your hand. Why? I have no idea. But it is comforting.
As good a casebook as you can reasonably hope for April 3, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not only is Dukeminier & Krier's "Property" well-written and interesting, it features something very unusual for a law school casebook: pictures! There is something very heartwarming about a casebook that includes pictures related to the cases, such as: a diagram of a 19th century duck decoy, portraits of Justice Louis D. Brandeis and King Henry VIII, and "Seaweed," by Georgia O'Keefe. A very enjoyable read.
Well written and good information. July 24, 1998
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a good text for my Property class. One of the things I liked about it is that there is follow-up on some of the more interesting cases provided in afternotes. Of course, you can never give 5 stars to a book you're forced to read, but it's hard to find a law text that breaks it down without *completely* boring you. This does it pretty well.
 Don't skip the footnotes! August 8, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This casebook is a rarity in that its editors actually seem to enjoy books in and of themselves. Recognizing that their readers are probably first-year students in need of more than relevant cases and blackletter law (although more than enough of both are provided), they have helpfully added factual background, full explanations of historical trends, and even liberal amounts of actual diagrams and photos to aid the reader in trying to understand things like, say, what Grand Central Station might have looked like with an 80-story office tower on it or what kind of a person might spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to be able to keep a cat in her condo. It's not all fun, of course, but even brain-paining topics like future estates are deftly handled in a few pithy pages without too much unnecessary commentary. I would say that this is a worthy standard for any legal casebook to meet, but I'm not sure about that. If every law school text were designed with the kind of thought and care that this one was, our country's law schools might be even more overcrowded than they already are.
Answers please March 24, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This casebook is interesting and well-written. It would be absolutely perfect if it included answers to the thought-provoking problems which are sprinkled throughout (preferably in the back of the book). My professor did not go over most of the problems and I was left wondering whether I had answered them correctly or not.
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