Professors Jessica Asbridge and Emilio Longoria join host Bobby Debelak to discuss their favorite property law and eminent domain papers of the last year. The scholarship covers the argument for at-will employment as a taking, originalist interpretations of the constitution, deed restrictions, the contract clause, and more.

Paper Links:

Michael L. Smith, Is Originalism Bulls**t? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4749322

Maureen E. Brady, Covenants and the Contract Clause, Va. Envt'l L.J. (forthcoming 2025), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4856354

Racabi, At Will as Taking, https://www.yalelawjournal.org/essay/at-will-as-taking

Ken Stahl, The Power of State Legislatures to Invalidate Private Deed Restrictions: Is It an Unconstitutional Taking?, 50 PEPP. L. REV. 579 (2023), https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/plr/vol50/iss3/4/

Asbridge, Fines, Forfeitures, and Federalism, Virginia L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4743053

Longoria, Hoardings, Villanova L. Rev, https://www.villanovalawreview.com/article/123450-hoardings

Longoria, Properly Construing the Just Compensation Clause, https://bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/3088