The Nature of Property ................................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction & The “Properties” of Property ............................................................................................... 4 C.B MacPherson, “The Meaning of Property” ......................................................................................... 5 T.W. Merrill, “Property and the Right to Exclude” ................................................................................... 5 Yanner v Eaton 1999, High Court of Australia .......................................................................................... 5 Harrison v Carswell 1974, SCC ................................................................................................................. 6 The Case for Private Property & Novel Claims ............................................................................................. 7 C. Lewis, “The Right to Private Property in a New Political Dispensation in South Africa” ...................... 11 International News Service v Associated Press (1918) US Supreme Court ............................................. 12 Novel Claims and Restrictions on New Property Interests ......................................................................... 15 Victoria Park Racing and Recreation Grounds Ltd v Taylor .................................................................... 15 Moore v. Regents of the University of California (Cal Sup Ct. 1990) ....................................................... 18 Restrictions on Novel Property Interests ............................................................................................... 21 B Ziff, “The Irreversibility of Commodification” ..................................................................................... 21 An Introduction to Law and Economics (Plenary Session) .......................................................................... 21 Sturges v. Bridgeman ............................................................................................................................ 21 Coase, “The Problem of Social Cost” ..................................................................................................... 22 T. W Merrill & H.E Smith “What Happened to property in Law and Economics?” .................................. 22 Property in Perspective ................................................................................................................................. 22 Sources of Canadian Property Law: Aboriginal Legal Traditions ................................................................. 22 J. Borrows, Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law ...................................................... 24 R. Overstall, “Encountering the Spirit in the Land: “Property” in a kinship-based legal order ................. 27 Sources of Canadian Property Law: English Common Law ......................................................................... 29 P. Butt, Land Law .................................................................................................................................. 34 B, Ziff “Warm Reception in a Cold Climate: English Property Law and the Suppression of the Canadian Legal Identity” ...................................................................................................................................... 34 R. Chambers, An Introduction to Property Law in Australia ................................................................... 36 Property, Class, and Poverty ..................................................................................................................... 37 J. Waldron, “Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom” ......................................................................... 38 R.C. Ellickson, “Controlling Chronic Misconduct in City Spaces: Of Panhandlers, Skid Rows, and Public- Space Zoning”....................................................................................................................................... 38 Victoria (City) v Adams 2008 ................................................................................................................. 39 Protections for Property ........................................................................................................................... 41 B. Ziff “Taking Liberties: Protections for Private Property in Canada” ................................................... 43 Constitution Act, 1867 ss. 91. 92 ................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ss 7, 8, 15 ........................................................................... 50 Constitution Act, 1982 s. 35 .................................................................................................................. 51 Expropriation Act, ss. 1 (g), 2(1), 3, 42(1) .............................................................................................. 52 Canadian Bill of Rights .......................................................................................................................... 52 Alberta Bill of Rights.................................................................................................................................. 53 Alberta Personal Property Bill of Rights Act........................................................................................... 53 Constructive Takings ................................................................................................................................. 54 Pennsylvania Coal Co v Mahon ............................................................................................................. 54 Lucas v South Carolina Coastal Council ................................................................................................. 55 Mariner Real Estate Ltd. V. Nova Scotia (AG) (1999) (CA) ...................................................................... 56 Canadian Pacific Railway Co v. Vancouver (City).................................................................................... 58 D.C. Harris “A Railway, a City, and the Public Regulation of Private Property: CPR v City of Vancouver” .................................................................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. North American Free Trade Agreement ................................................................................................ 58 B. Ziff, “’Taking’ Liberties: Protections for Private Property in Canada” ................................................. 59 Metalclad Corp v United Mexican States............................................................................................... 59 UNCTAD, World Investment Report 2015: Reforming International Investment Governance ................ 59 Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the People’s Republic of China for the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments ................................................................ 60 Boundaries .................................................................................................................................................... 60 Land: Airspace and Subsrface Rights .............................................................................................................. 60 Subsurface Rights...................................................................................................................................... 60 Edwards v Sims ..................................................................................................................................... 60 B. Ziff “The Great Onyx Cave Cases – A Micro History” .......................................................................... 61 B.J. Barton, Canadian Law of Mining ..................................................................................................... 62 Public Lands Act, s. 35........................................................................................................................... 62 Law of Property Act, ss 7, 56, 57, 69 ..................................................................................................... 62 Mines and Minerals Act, ss 1, 10 ........................................................................................................... 63 Surface Rights Act, s 12 ......................................................................................................................... 64 Airspace Rights ......................................................................................................................................... 64 Didow v. Alberta Power Ltd. ................................................................................................................. 64 Lateral Boundaries: Rights of Support &Land Bounded by Land................................................................. 65 Blewman v Wilkinson ........................................................................................................................... 65 Robertson v Wallace ............................................................................................................................. 66 Section 237(1) Property act (pg 213) ..................................................................................................... 67