Medill's Experiencing Property
Description
Written by an award-winning teacher and member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Experiencing Property relies on a simplified narrative approach to introduce key vocabulary terms, fundamental concepts, and legal rules before examining illustrative cases. Numerous applied problems and skills exercises provide the foundation students need to demonstrate competence on the NextGen Bar Exam while prompting them to reflect on their future professional identities. Consistent with its orientation toward experiencing Property Law as a practicing lawyer would, the text contains actual legal documents. Each chapter concludes with a student-friendly Study Guide to help students outline the material. Experiencing Property complements its traditional approach with readings from the popular literature, such as The Color of Law and Evicted!, that challenge students to reflect on the historical and societal forces that continue to influence the law.
Key features of Experiencing Property include:
The scope of coverage for Experiencing Property emphasizes the areas of Real Property Law covered by the NexGen Bar Exam while challenging students to reflect on the legacy impacts of historical discrimination on contemporary issues:
About the Author
Professor Colleen E. Medill is the Barbara Wittmann Schaefer Endowed Chair of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Professor Medill is the author of Developing Professional Skills: Property, Medill’s Developing Professional Skills: Property Interactive Lessons, and Acing Property. Prior to writing Experiencing Property, she was a co-author of Contemporary Property. Professor Medill has taught the first-year Property Law course for over 25 years, first at The University of Tennessee College of Law and currently at the University of Nebraska College of Law. A natural teacher, she won the Outstanding Teacher Award at Tennessee early in her career. While at Nebraska, Professor Medill has won the University’s highest teaching honor, the Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award, the Outstanding Educator Award from the Nebraska Bar Foundation, and the student-selected Professor of the Year award numerous times. She currently serves as a subject matter expert on Real Property Law for the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Key features of Experiencing Property include:
- Integrated lawyering exercises designed to encourage students to reflect upon the formation of their professional identity as they practice foundational legal skills.
- Student Study Guides for each chapter that assist students in learning the vocabulary, organizing the legal rules, and synthesizing the material.
- Formative assessment materials, prepared by the author to accompany the casebook, accessible at eproducts.westacademic.com. These formative assessment materials include vocabulary quizzes, multiple-choice questions, and short-essay questions with model answers.
- Suggestions for integrating the author’s Developing Professional Skills: Property Interactive Lessons for additional practice in skills development.
The scope of coverage for Experiencing Property emphasizes the areas of Real Property Law covered by the NexGen Bar Exam while challenging students to reflect on the legacy impacts of historical discrimination on contemporary issues:
- Chapter 1 introduces Property Law through individual experiences and historical, cultural, and political perspectives.
- Chapter 2 covers personal property.
- Chapter 3 focuses on gratuitous transfers of property rights through gifts, intestate succession and the wealth-destroying effect of heirs’ property, estate planning, and adverse possession.
- Chapter 4 explores landlord and tenant law and the societal problems of access to fair and affordable housing and homelessness.
- Chapter 5 explains present, future, and concurrent ownership rights, including the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act.
- Chapter 6 covers real estate transactions and mortgage law principles.
- Chapter 7 explains easements, restrictive covenants, and the legacy effects of racial restrictive covenants.
- Chapter 8 introduces zoning law, explores the legacy effects of racial zoning and condemnation actions, and explores the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on governmental takings for public use.
About the Author
Professor Colleen E. Medill is the Barbara Wittmann Schaefer Endowed Chair of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Professor Medill is the author of Developing Professional Skills: Property, Medill’s Developing Professional Skills: Property Interactive Lessons, and Acing Property. Prior to writing Experiencing Property, she was a co-author of Contemporary Property. Professor Medill has taught the first-year Property Law course for over 25 years, first at The University of Tennessee College of Law and currently at the University of Nebraska College of Law. A natural teacher, she won the Outstanding Teacher Award at Tennessee early in her career. While at Nebraska, Professor Medill has won the University’s highest teaching honor, the Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award, the Outstanding Educator Award from the Nebraska Bar Foundation, and the student-selected Professor of the Year award numerous times. She currently serves as a subject matter expert on Real Property Law for the National Conference of Bar Examiners.