Murr v. Wisconsin: The Regulatory Taking Case
Short video featuring Eric Claeys
Has a family who has jointly owned two legally distinct pieces of land for decades suffered a regulatory taking if they can't build on one of the lots? Professor Eric Claeys of the Antonin Scalia Law School outlines the issues in the case of Murr v. Wisconsin, the result of which will impact the scope of regulatory takings liability and owners’ ability to make reasonable use of private property. Supreme Court oral argument: Monday, March 20, 2017.
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Learn more about Prof. Eric Claeys:
https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/claeys_eric
Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Eric R. Claeys is Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He has written widely in the fields of property, private law, and constitutional law. Professor Claeys’s current research interests focus on flourishing- and labor-based natural rights justifications for property—in American property theory, in intellectual property, and in contemporary regulation of shale gas exploration and hydraulic fracturing. He is a member of the American Law Institute, he serves on the ALI’s Members’ Consultative Group for the first Restatement of Copyright, and he also serves as an adviser to the Restatement (Fourth) of the Law of Property.
Professor Claeys received his JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He received his AB from Princeton University, and he is a former visiting fellow and current member of Princeton’s Politics Department’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. After law school, Professor Claeys clerked for the Hon. Melvin Brunetti, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Hon. William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States.
Professor Claeys’s main teaching interests include Property, Torts, Jurisprudence, and Intellectual Property. In recent years, he has also taught Water Law, Remedies, Estates and Trusts, Trade Secrecy, Constitutional Law, Torts, and Oil and Gas law. Spring 2018, he is teaching Torts and Jurisprudence as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.