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The Dilemmas of Property and Sovereignty in the Postmodern Era: New Solutions for the Regulatory Takings Problem

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In the last decade an explosion of Supreme Court case law has struggled with the question of what makes a regulatory restriction on private property a taking for which just compensation is required by the Constitution.1 Judges, policymakers, and legal scholars have offered various modern approaches to answer this question; but, notwithstanding their efforts, or perhaps because of their meddlings, the problem of regulatory takings has only become more confused and complex than ever. As one commentator of the Court’s recent takings cases has aptly concluded: “[I]t is difficult to imagine a body of case law in greater doctrinal and conceptual disarray” (Peterson 1989, p. 1304).

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Minda, G. (1992). The Dilemmas of Property and Sovereignty in the Postmodern Era: New Solutions for the Regulatory Takings Problem. In: Mercuro, N. (eds) Taking Property and Just Compensation. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2958-9_5

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