Publications

Articles, Essays & Chapters

• Debates Over “Public Use” in the State Constitutional Conventions, 43 Yale J. on Reg. 36 (2025)
• The Role of “Value” in Moral Nuisance Cases, in The History of Value, Joanna Cohen & Laura F. Edwards, eds.) (forthcoming)
• Covenants and the Contract Clause, 43 Va. Envt’l L.J. 93 (2025)
• Cottages as Public Nuisances: The Long History of Land Use Regulation of the Poor, 73 DePaul L. Rev. 241 (2024) (Clifford Symposium)
• The Illusory Promise of General Property Law, 132 Yale L.J. F. 1010 (2023) (invited)
• Analog Analogies and the Future of Trespass to Chattels, 16 J. Tort L. 205 (2023) (with James Y. Stern)
• Uses of Convention History in State Constitutional Law, 2022 Wis. L. Rev. 1169
• Zombie State Constitutional Provisions, 2021 Wis. L. Rev. 1063 (invited).
• Turning Neighbors into Nuisances, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1609 (2021)
  • Reprinted in Land Use and Environment Law Review (2020-21 ed.) (selected after peer review as one of the five best land use articles of preceding year)
  • Reviewed in Shelley Ross Saxer, Nuisance, and Covenants, and Zoning, Oh My!, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2021
• Property and Projection, 133 Harv. L. Rev. 1143 (2020)
  • Selected for 2019 Yale/Harvard/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum
  • Reviewed in Lee Anne Fennell, Projecting and Puppeteering, J Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2019
• The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds, 128 Yale L.J. 872 (2019)
  • Co-Winner, 2019 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition
  • Reviewed in Nicole Stelle Garnett, Metes and Bounds: A Revisionist History, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2018
• Property Convergence in Takings Law, 46 Pepp. L. Rev. 695 (2019) (invited symposium contribution)
• The Damagings Clauses, 104 Va. L. Rev. 341 (2018)
  • Reprinted in Land Use and Environment Law Review (2019-20 ed.) (selected after peer review as one of the four best land use articles of preceding year)
  • Reprinted in Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (2019 ed.)
  • Reviewed in Ilya Somin, The Unknown History of State Constitutional Prohibitions on Government Actions that “Damage” Property without Compensation, Volokh Conspiracy, 2018
  • Reviewed in Shelley Ross Saxer, So What Are the “Damagings” Clauses and Why Do We Care?, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2018
  • Reviewed on Inverse Condemnation Blog here
• Penn Central Squared: What the Many Factors of Murr v. Wisconsin Mean for Property Federalism, 166 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 53 (2017)
  • Reprinted in Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (2018 ed.)
• Property’s Ceiling: State Courts and the Expansion of Takings Clause Property, 102 Va. L. Rev. 1167 (2016)
• The Lost “Effects” of the Fourth Amendment: Giving Personal Property Due Protection, 125 Yale L.J. 946 (2016)
• Defining “Navigability”: Balancing State-Court Flexibility and Private Rights in Waterways, 36 Cardozo L. Rev. 1415 (2015)
  • Reviewed in Shelby D. Green, Recapturing Water for Sustainability Through Redefinitions of Navigability and Ownership, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2016
• The Failure of America’s First City Plan, 46 Urb. Law. 507 (2014)
• Leaving Room for Research: The Historical Treatment of the Common-Law Research Exemption in Congress and the Courts, and its Relationship to Biotech Law and Policy, 12 Yale J.L. & Tech. 269 (2010)

Books and Digital Content

• Thomas W. Merrill, Henry E. Smith & Maureen E. Brady, Property: Principles and Policies (4th ed. 2022).
• Gregory Alexander, Lior Jacob Strahilevitz & Maureen E. Brady, PracticePerfect for Property (2022).

Other Writings

• Op-Ed, New Haven’s Long History of Selling Streets, Hartford Courant, June 7, 2013
• Brief of Property Law Professors in Support of Appellees, Taylor v. Northam, 2021 WL 3918940 (Va. Sept. 2, 2021) (No. 210113).