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Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices<\/strong> (Aspen Pub., 9th ed. 2026) (with Bethany R. Berger, Nestor M. Davidson, & Eduardo Mois\u00e9s Pe\u00f1alver)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Property <\/strong>(Aspen Pub. 7th ed. 2026) (with Nestor M. Davidson)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Choice of Law: An Experiential Learning Approach <\/strong>(Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law <\/strong>(Nell Jessup Newton & Kevin K. Washburn, Co-Editors-in-Chief) (Executive Editors: Gregory Ablavsky, Bethany R. Berger, Maggie Blackhawk, Seth Davis, Dylan Hedden-Nicely, Monte Mills, Ezra Rosser, Joseph William Singer, & Michalyn Steele) (LexisNexis: 2024 edition)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Persuasion: Getting to the Other Side <\/strong>(Carolina Academic Press, 2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. No Freedom Without Regulation: The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis<\/strong> (Yale University Press, 2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. The Edges of the Field: Lessons on the Obligations of Ownership<\/strong> (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property<\/strong> (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2000)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Deep Pits & Solid Ground: What if Property Law is Both the Cause of The Affordability Crisis & the Solution to It? <\/em>\u2014 J. L., Prop, & Soc\u2019y \u2014 (forthcoming, 2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Misappropriating Private Law for Public Law Questions, <\/em>(with Seth Davis), \u2014 Yale L. J. \u2014 (forthcoming, 2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. \u201cMerciless Indian Savages\u201d or \u201cDistinct, Independent Political Communities\u201d?<\/em> in American Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and governance 94 (Alexandra Natapoff & Guy-Uriel Charles eds. 2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Easy Cases Make Bad Law: Values and Reasons in Property Law, <\/em>\u2014 Geo. Mason L. Rev. \u2014 (forthcoming, 2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. NIMBY Covenants Are Not Protected by the Takings Clause,<\/a><\/em> 50 Thurgood Marshall L. Rev. 69 (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Living Property, <\/a><\/em> 49 Seattle U. L. Rev. 111 (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Aggressive Jurisdictional Conflicts over Abortion Law<\/a>, <\/em>3 Transatlantic L.J. 53 (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. Against Choice-of-Law Clauses, <\/a><\/em> 60 Willamette L. Rev. 557 (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    9. Shopping While Queer: Public Accommodations Law After <\/em>Masterpiece Cakeshop and <\/em>303 Creative<\/a>, 57 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 493 (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    10. Conflict of Abortion Laws,<\/a> <\/em>16 Ne. U. L. Rev. 313 (2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    11. The Right to Have Property<\/a>, <\/em>10 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 401 (2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    12. Hobbes & Hanging: Personal Jurisdiction v. Choice of Law,<\/a> <\/em>64 Ariz. L. Rev. 1 (2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    13. Essential Property<\/a>, <\/em>107 Minn. L. Rev. 605 (2022)(with Timothy M. Mulvaney)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    14. The Lands Were Not Empty<\/a>, <\/em>2 Am. J. of Law & Equality 285 (2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    15. Religious Liberty and Public Accommodations: What Would Hohfeld Say<\/a>? <\/em>in Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries 478 (eds. Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ted M. Sichelman, & Henry E. Smith) (Cambridge U. Press, 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    16. Everyone Should Have Some: Inclusion & Equity in Property Law,<\/a> <\/em>in INTEGRATING DOCTRINE AND DIVERSITY: INCLUSION & EQUITY IN THE LAW SCHOOL CLASSROOM 75 (Nicole P. Dyszlewski et al., eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    17. Surveying Choice of Law: Twenty Years of Choice-of-Law Surveys by Symeon C. Symeonides,<\/a> <\/em>Symeon C. Symeonides, CHOICE OF LAW IN PRACTICE: A TWENTY-YEAR REPORT FROM THE TRENCHES (3 vol.), vol. 1 at xv (Brill Nijhoff2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    18. Democratic Property,<\/a><\/em> in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON PRIVATE LAW THEORIES 220(Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky, eds., 2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    19. Choice of Law Rules,<\/a> <\/em>50 Cumberland L. Rev. 101 (2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    20. Public Accommodations & Human Flourishing: Sexual Orientation & Religious Liberty (An Essay in Honor of Greg Alexander),<\/a> 29<\/em> Cornell J. of Law & Pub. Pol’y 697 (2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    21. Public Rights,<\/a> <\/em>38 Law & History Rev. 621 (2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    22. Things Invisible to See: State Action and Private Property, <\/a>5 Tex. A&M L. Rev.. 439 (2018) (co-authored with Isaac Saidel-Goley)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    23. Indian Nations and the Constitution,<\/a>70 Me. L. Rev. 199 (2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    24. Move along to where? Property in service of democracy (A Tribute to Andr\u00e9 van der Walt),<\/a>in TRANSFORMATIVE PROPERTY LAW: FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOUR OF AJ VD WALT 1 (Juta 2018) (co-authored with Timothy M. Mulvaney)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    25. Indian Title: Unraveling the Racial Context of Property Rights, or How to Stop Engaging in Conquest, <\/a>10 Albany Gov’t L. Rev. 1 (2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    26. Property and Sovereignty Imbricated: Why Religion Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate in Public Accommodations, <\/a>18 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 519 (2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    27. Anti Anti-Paternalism<\/a>, <\/em>50 N. Eng. L. Rev. 101 (2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    28. Should We Call Ahead? Property, Democracy, & the Rule of Law, <\/a><\/em>5 Brigham-Kanner Property Conf. J. 1 (2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    29. Justifying Regulatory Takings,<\/a> <\/em>41 O.N. U. L. Rev. 601 (2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    30. Multistate Justice; Better Law, Comity, and Fairness in the Conflict of Laws<\/a>,<\/em> 2015 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1923<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    31. We Don’t Serve Your Kind Here; Public Accommodations and the Mark of Sodom<\/a>,<\/em> 95 B.U. L. Rev. 929 (2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    32. Problem Solving for First Year Law Students<\/em><\/a>, 7 Elon L. Rev. 413 (2015) (with Todd D. Rakoff)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    33. Property Law Conflicts<\/a>,<\/em> 54 Washburn L.J. 129 (2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    34. Private Law Realism<\/a>,<\/a><\/em> 1 Critical Analysis of Law: An Intl. & Interdisciplinary L. Rev. 226 (2014) (review of Hanoch Dagan, Reconstructing American Legal Realism and Rethinking Private Law Theory (2014)), http:\/\/cal.library.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/cal\/article\/view\/22114\/17957<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    35. Justice Breyer,<\/em> Grokster, and the Four Chords Song<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> 128 Harv. L. Rev. 483 (2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    36. The Indian States of America: Parallel Universes & Overlapping Sovereignty<\/em><\/a>, 38 Am. Indian L. Rev. 1 (2014)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    37. Property as the Law of Democracy<\/a>,<\/em> 63 Duke L. J. 1287 (2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    38. Foreclosure and the Failures of Formality, Or Subprime Mortgage Conundrums and How to Fix Them<\/a>,<\/em> 46 Conn. L. Rev. 497 (2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    39. Tribal Sovereignty and Human Rights<\/a>,<\/em>2013 Mich. St. L. Rev. 307 (2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    40. The Rule of Reason in Property Law<\/a>,<\/a><\/em> 46 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1369 -(2013), [excerpted in Property Law Perspectives II,<\/em> 251 (Bram Akermans, Ernst Marais & Eveline Ramaekers eds.) (Intersentia, 2013)]<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    41. Titles of Nobility: Property, Poverty, and Immigration in a Free and Democratic Society<\/a>, 1 J. L. Prop. & Soc’y 1. (2014), http:\/\/alps.syr.edu\/journal\/2014\/08\/JLPS-2014-08-Singer.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    42. Subprime: Why a Free and Democratic Society Needs Law<\/a>, <\/em>47 Harv. C.R.\u2013C.L. L. Rev. 141 (2012).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    43. Property Law as the Infrastructure of Democracy<\/a><\/em> [The Fourth in the Wolf Family Lecture Series on the American Law of Real Property] 11-1 Powell on Real Property (2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    44. The Reliance Interest in Property Revisited<\/a>, 7 Unbound 79 (2011), http:\/\/www.legalleft.org\/2011\/12\/singer\/<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    45. The Anti-Apartheid Principle in American Property Law<\/a>,<\/em> 1 Ala. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 83 (2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    46. Original Acquisition of Property: From Conquest and Possession to Democracy and Equal Opportunity<\/a>,<\/em> 86 Ind. L. J. 763 (2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    47. Property Law and the Mortgage Crisis: Libertarian Fantasies and Subprime Realities<\/a>, <\/em>1 Prop. L. Rev. 7 (2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    48. Erasing Indian Country: The Story of Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States,<\/em> in Indian Law Stories (Philip Frickey, Carole Goldberg & Kevin Washburn, eds.)(2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    49. In Favor of Foxes: Pluralism as Fact and Aid to the Pursuit of Justice<\/a>,<\/a> <\/em>90 B.U. L. Rev. 903 (2010)(with Martha Minow)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    50. Normative Methods for Lawyers<\/a>,<\/em> 56 UCLA L. Rev. 899 (2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    51. Critical Normativity<\/a>,<\/em> 20 Law & Critique 27 (2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    52. A Statement of Progressive Property<\/a><\/em>, 94 Cornell L. Rev. 743 (2009)(with Gregory S. Alexander, Eduardo M. Pe\u00f1alver, Laura S. Underkuffler)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    53. Democratic Estates: Property Law in a Free and Democratic Society<\/a>,<\/em> 94 Cornell L. Rev. 1009 (2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    54. How Property Norms Construct the Externalities of Ownership,<\/em> in Property and Community (Gregory S. Alexander & Eduardo Pe\u00f1alver eds.) (2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    55. Economic Regulation and the Rule of Law: Minimum Standards for the Legal Framework of a Free and Democratic Society<\/a>,<\/em> 48 Judges J. 4 (2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    56. Corporate Responsibility in a Free and Democratic Society<\/a>, 58 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1031 (2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    57. Things That We Would Like to Take for Granted: Minimum Standards for the Legal Framework of a Free and Democratic Society<\/a><\/em>, 2 Harv. L & Pol\u2019y Rev. 139 (2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    58. Book Review: Johan van der Walt, Law and Sacrifice: Toward Post-Apartheid Theory of Law<\/a>,<\/em> 15 Soc. & Leg. Stud. 605 (2006)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    59. After the Flood: Equality and Humanity in Property Regimes<\/a>,<\/em> 52 Loy. L. Rev. 101 (2006)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    60. Nine-Tenths of the Law: Title, Possession, and Sacred Obligations<\/a>, <\/em>38 Conn. L. Rev. 605 (2006)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    61. The Ownership Society: Regulatory Takings and Just Obligations<\/a>,<\/em> 30 Harv. Envtl. L.J. 309 (2006)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    62. Double Bind: Indian Nations v. the Supreme Court<\/a><\/em>, 119 Harv. L. Rev. F. 1 (2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    63. Symposium Foreword: Indian Nations & the Law<\/a>,<\/em> 41 Tulsa L. Rev. 1 (2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    64. Same Sex Marriage, Full Faith and Credit, and the Evasion of Obligation<\/a>,<\/a> 1 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 1 (2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    65. Myths and Realities of Tribal Sovereignty: The Law and Economics of Indian Self-Rule<\/a>,<\/em> (co-authored with Joseph P. Kalt) (Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, & Univ. of Ariz. Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy, 2004)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    66. Canons of Conquest: The Supreme Court’s Attack on Tribal Sovereignty<\/a>,<\/em> 37 N. Eng. L. Rev. 641 (2003)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    67. Lone Wolf, Or How to Take Property By Calling it a “Mere Change in the Form of Investment”,<\/em><\/a> 38 Tulsa L. Rev. 37 (2002)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    68. Something Important in Humanity<\/a>,<\/em> 37 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 103 (2002)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    69. Starting Property<\/a>,<\/em> 46 St. Louis U. L.J. 565 (2002)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    70. Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain: The Place of Better Law in a Third Restatement of Conflicts<\/a>,<\/em> 75 Ind. L. Rev. 117 (2000)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    71. Property and Social Relations: From Title to Entitlement<\/a>,<\/em> in Property and Values: Striking an Equitable Balance of Public and Private Interests (Charles Geisler ed. 2000)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    72. The Stranger Who Resides With You: Ironies of Asian American and American Indian Legal History<\/a>,<\/em> 40 B.C. L. Rev. \/19 B.C. Third World L.J. 171 (1998)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    73. Property<\/a>,<\/em> in The Politics of Law (David Kairys ed., 3d ed. 1998)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    74. Rent<\/a><\/em>, 39 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (1997)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    75. Property and Equality: Public Accommodations and the Constitution in South Africa and the United States<\/a>, <\/em>12 South African J. Public L. 53 (1997)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    76. Justice and the Conflict of Laws<\/a>,<\/em> 48 Mercer L. Rev. 831 (1997)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    77. No Right to Exclude: Public Accommodations and Private Property<\/a>,<\/em> 90 Nw. U. L. Rev.1283 (1996)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    78. Property and Social Relations: From Title to Entitlement<\/a>,<\/em> in Property Law on the Threshold of the 21st Century 69 (G.E. van Maanen & A.J. van der Walt eds.)(1996)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    79. Publicity Rights and the Conflict of Laws: Tribal Court Jurisdiction in the Crazy Horse Case<\/a>,<\/em> 41 S.D. L. Rev. 1 (1996)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    80. Conference on Jurisdiction, Justice, and Choice of Law for the Twenty-First Century: Case Four: Choice of Law Theory<\/a>,<\/em> 29 New Eng. L. Rev. 692 (1995)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    81. Remembering What Hurts Us Most: A Critique of the American Indian Law Deskbook<\/a>,<\/em> 24 N.M. L. Rev. 315 (1994)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    82. Well Settled?: The Increasing Weight of History in American Indian Land Claims<\/a>,<\/em> 28 Ga. L. Rev. 481 (1994)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    83. Jobs and Justice: Rethinking the Stakeholder Debate<\/a>,<\/em> 43 U. Toronto L.J. 475 (1993)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    84. The Social Origins of Property<\/a>,<\/em> 6 Can. J.L. & Juris. 217 (1993)(with Jack M. Beermann)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    85. Re-Reading Property,<\/a> 26 N. Eng. L. Rev. 711 (1992)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    86. Sovereignty and Property<\/em><\/a>, 86 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (1991)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    87. Facing Real Conflicts<\/a>, 24 Cornell Int’l L.J. 197 (1991)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    88. The Continuing Conquest: American Indian Nations, Property Law, and Gunsmoke<\/a><\/em>, Reconstruction 97 (vol. 1, no. 3, 1991)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    89. A Pragmatic Guide to Conflicts<\/a>,<\/em> 70 B.U. L. Rev. 731 (1990)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    90. Property and Coercion in Federal Indian Law: The Conflict between Critical and Complacent Pragmatism<\/a>,<\/em> 63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1821 (1990)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    91. Baseline Questions in Legal Reasoning: The Example of Property in Jobs<\/a> (with Jack Beermann), 23 Ga. L. Rev. 911 (1989)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    92. Persuasion<\/a>,<\/em> 87 Mich. L. Rev. 2442 (1989)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    93. Real Conflicts<\/a>,<\/em> 69 B.U. L. Rev. 1 (1989)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    94. Why Should Lawyers Care About Philosophy?<\/a>,<\/em> 1989 Duke L.J. 1752<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    95. Legal Realism Now<\/a>,<\/em> 76 Calif. L. Rev. 467 (1988)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    96. The Reliance Interest in Property<\/a>,<\/em> 40 Stan. L. Rev. 611 (1988)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    97. Radical Moderation<\/a>,<\/em> 1985 Am. B. Found. Research J. 329<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    98. The Player and the Cards: Nihilism and Legal Theory<\/a>,<\/em> 94 Yale L.J. 1 (1984).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    99. Catcher in the Rye Jurisprudence<\/a>,<\/em> 35 Rutgers L. Rev. 275 (1983).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    100. The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld<\/a>,<\/em> 1982 Wis. L. Rev. 975.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Blog Entries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Why Religion is Not an Excuse to Discriminate in Public Accommodations<\/a>, <\/em>GLAD (Legal Advocates & Defenders for the LGBTQ Community)  (July 13, 2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Regulation is Just Another Word for Law<\/a>, <\/em>N.Y. Times Opinion Pages, Room for Debate <\/em>(Nov. 10, 2015)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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