James E. Krier is the Earl Warren DeLano Professor Emeritus of Law at the

University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (branded as Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparati ...

. His teaching and research interests are primarily in the fields of

property Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property may have the right to consume, alter, share, re ...

contracts A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of thos ...

, and

law and economics Law and economics, or economic analysis of law, is the application of microeconomic theory to the analysis of law. The field emerged in the United States during the early 1960s, primarily from the work of scholars from the Chicago school of econ ...

, and he teaches or has taught courses on contracts, property,

trusts and estates English trust law concerns the protection of assets, usually when they are held by one party for another's benefit. Trusts were a creation of the English law of property and obligations, and share a subsequent history with countries across the ...

, behavioral law and economics, and pollution policy.

Biography

Krier earned his B.S. with honors and his J.D. with highest honors from the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

, where he was articles editor of the ''

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''. After his graduation from law school in 1966 he served for one year as law clerk to the Hon.

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, Chief Justice of the

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, and then practiced law for two years with

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He was a professor of law at

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and

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before joining the

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faculty in 1983, and has been a visiting professor at

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and

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. In 2012, he was awarded the

Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Prize The Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Prize is awarded each Fall by the William & Mary Law School, at the Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Conference. The Conference and Prize were proposed in 2003 by Joseph T. Waldo, a graduate of the Marshall– ...

from

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. Krier is the father of hard rock musician and motivational speaker Andrew W.K.

Works

Krier is the author or co-author of several books, including ''Environmental Law and Policy'', ''Pollution and Policy'', and the widely used casebook ''Property'' (6th edition) with Dukeminier. His recent articles have been published in the ''

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'', the ''

Supreme Court Economic Review The ''Supreme Court Economic Review'' was an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. The journal applied economic and legal scholarship to the work of the United States Supreme Court. Articles considered the implicit or expl ...

'', and the ''UCLA Law Review''.

Publications

*James E. Krier, Michael H. Schill, Gregory S. Alexander, and Jesse Dukeminier. ''Property'' (Aspen Publishers, Inc.; 2006) *James E. Krier, ''Pollution and Policy: A Case Essay on California and Federal Experience With Motor Vehicle Air Pollution, 1940-1975'' University of California Press (June 1978)

References

External links

James Krier faculty
page at the

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