Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property

This book offers a succinct, pointed look at property rights in America--how they came to be, how they have evolved, and why they should once again be a mainstay of the law.

Epstein, the nation's preeminent authority on the subject, examines all aspects of private property--from real estate to air rights to intellectual property.

He takes the reader from the strongly protective property rights advocated by the framers of the Constitution through to the weak property rights supported by Progressive and liberal politicians up to the renewed appreciation of property rights in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's landmark Kelo v.

New London decision in 2005.