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    • Serkin, Christopher (Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2011)
      This brief Essay, part of a Fordham Urban Law Journal Symposium on eminent domain in New York, argues that there is a seldom-recognized purpose to eminent domain: preserving the ability of elected representatives to respond ...
    • Serkin, Christopher (American University Law Review, 2017)
      This is a Response to Bethany R. Berger's recent Article, The Illusion of Fiscal Illusion in Regulatory Takings. In that Article, Professor Berger argues against the view that governments should be forced to compensate ...
    • Serkin, Christopher (Northwestern University Law Review, 2016)
      Local governments typically insure themselves against all kinds of losses, from property damage to legal liability. For small- and medium-sized governments, this usually means purchasing insurance from private insurers or ...
    • Serkin, Christopher (Vermont Law Review, 2017)
      This Essay offers a broad gloss on the traditional politics of property protection and then catalogues a number of ways in which those politics have been changing. In many cases, the account is of fragmentation and fracture ...
    • Bruce, Jon W. (Stetson Law Review, 1980)
      The Uniform Land Transactions Act (ULTA) and the Uniform Simplification of Land Transfers Act (USLTA) recently were approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and recommended to the several ...
    • Serkin, Christopher (Michigan Law Review, 2014)
      As conventionally understood, regulatory takings doctrine protects property owners from the most significant costs of legal transitions. Legal change has therefore always been central to regulatory takings claims. This ...
    • Christopher Serkin and Michael P. Vandenbergh (2018)
      Legal change has the potential to disrupt settled expectations and property rights. The Takings Clause provides protection from the most significant costs by requiring compensation following a change in the law, but threats ...
    • Serkin, Christopher; Krier, James E. (Michigan Law Review, 2004)
      The Fifth Amendment's public use requirement - a dead letter for decades - has recently been resurrected by the Michigan Supreme Court, overruling Poletown, and by the United States Supreme Court, granting certiorari in ...
    • Schoenblum, Jeffrey (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2014)
      Increasingly, federal law impacts court decisions involving private wealth transfer. Increasingly, federal law is the central consideration in premortem and postmortem planning for private wealth transfer. Despite this, ...