{"id":18,"date":"2023-08-07T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T13:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:29:05","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Articles<\/strong>, Essays &amp; Chapters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5328019\">Debates Over \u201cPublic Use\u201d in the State Constitutional Conventions<\/a><\/em>, 43 Yale J. on Reg. 36 (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Role of \u201cValue\u201d in Moral Nuisance Cases<\/em>, in The History of Value, Joanna Cohen &amp; Laura F. Edwards, eds.) (forthcoming)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4856354\">Covenants and the Contract Clause<\/a><\/em>, 43 Va. Envt&#8217;l L.J. 93 (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4516150\">Cottages as Public Nuisances: The Long History of Land Use Regulation of the Poor<\/a><\/em>, 73 DePaul L. Rev. 241 (2024) (Clifford Symposium)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4339574\">The Illusory Promise of General Property Law<\/a><\/em>, 132 Yale L.J. F. 1010 (2023) (invited)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4545189\">Analog Analogies and the Future of Trespass to Chattels<\/a><\/em>, 16 J. Tort L. 205 (2023) (with James Y. Stern)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4196086\">Uses of Convention History in State Constitutional Law<\/a><\/em>, 2022 Wis. L. Rev. 1169<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3920420\"><em>Zombie State Constitutional Provisions<\/em><\/a>, 2021 Wis. L. Rev. 1063 (invited).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3799679\">Turning Neighbors into Nuisances<\/a><\/em>, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1609 (2021)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewed in Shelley Ross Saxer,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/property.jotwell.com\/nuisance-and-covenants-and-zoning-oh-my\/\"><em>Nuisance, and Covenants, and Zoning, Oh My!<\/em><\/a>, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3355769\">Property and Projection<\/a><\/em>, 133 Harv. L. Rev. 1143 (2020)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Selected for 2019 Yale\/Harvard\/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewed in Lee Anne Fennell,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/property.jotwell.com\/projecting-and-puppeteering\/\">Projecting and Puppeteering<\/a><\/em>, J Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3165744\"><em>The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds<\/em><\/a>, 128 Yale L.J. 872 (2019)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.virginia.edu\/news\/201811\/professor-molly-brady-wins-aals-award-scholarship\">Co-Winner<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aals.org\/aals-newsroom\/aals-selects-2019-scholarly-papers-competition-winners\/\">2019 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewed in Nicole Stelle Garnett,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/property.jotwell.com\/metes-and-bounds-a-revisionist-history\/\">Metes and Bounds: A Revisionist History<\/a><\/em>, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3247052\">Property Convergence in Takings Law<\/a><\/em>, 46 Pepp. L. Rev. 695 (2019) (invited symposium contribution)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3028880\"><em>The Damagings Clauses<\/em><\/a>, 104 Va. L. Rev. 341 (2018)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reprinted in Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (2019 ed.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewed in Ilya Somin,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2018\/08\/06\/the-hidden-history-of-state-constitution\">The Unknown History of State Constitutional Prohibitions on Government Actions that &#8220;Damage&#8221; Property without Compensation<\/a><\/em>, Volokh Conspiracy, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewed in&nbsp;Shelley Ross Saxer,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/property.jotwell.com\/so-what-are-the-damagings-clauses-and-why-do-we-care\/\">So What Are the \u201cDamagings\u201d Clauses and Why Do We Care?<\/a><\/em>, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reviewed on Inverse Condemnation Blog&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inversecondemnation.com\/inversecondemnation\/2017\/09\/for-your-holiday-reading-the-damagings-clauses-.html\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3028886\">Penn Central&nbsp;<em>Squared: What the Many Factors of<\/em>&nbsp;Murr v. Wisconsin&nbsp;<em>Mean for Property Federalism<\/em><\/a>, 166 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 53 (2017)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reprinted in Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (2018 ed.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2673783\">Property&#8217;s Ceiling: State Courts and the Expansion of Takings Clause Property<\/a><\/em>, 102 Va. L. Rev. 1167 (2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2624782\">The Lost \u201cEffects\u201d of the Fourth Amendment: Giving Personal Property Due Protection<\/a><\/em>, 125 Yale L.J. 946 (2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/abstract=2574356\"><em>Defining &#8220;Navigability&#8221;: Balancing State-Court Flexibility and Private Rights in Waterways<\/em><\/a>, 36 Cardozo L. Rev. 1415&nbsp;(2015)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reviewed in Shelby D. Green,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/property.jotwell.com\/recapturing-water-for-sustainability-through-redefinitions-of-navigability-and-ownership\/\">Recapturing Water for Sustainability Through Redefinitions of Navigability and Ownership<\/a><\/em>, Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2557690\"><em>The Failure of America&#8217;s First City Plan<\/em><\/a>, 46 Urb. Law. 507&nbsp;(2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2354470\"><em>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<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp;12 Yale J.L. &amp; Tech. 269 (2010)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Books and Digital Content<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Thomas W. Merrill, Henry E. Smith &amp; Maureen E. Brady, Property: Principles and Policies (4th ed. 2022).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gregory Alexander, Lior Jacob Strahilevitz &amp; Maureen E. Brady, PracticePerfect for Property (2022).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Other Writings<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Op-Ed,<em>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.courant.com\/2013-06-07\/news\/hc-op-boyle-new-haven-street-sale-may-pay-off-0609-20130607_1_new-haven-two-downtown-streets-city-hall\">New Haven&#8217;s Long History of Selling Streets<\/a><\/em>, Hartford Courant, June 7, 2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/4bce5h8l5uaj8zc7dlloczvtzlpnxbzf\">Brief of Property Law Professors in Support of Appellees<\/a>, Taylor v. Northam, 2021 WL 3918940 (Va. Sept. 2, 2021) (No. 210113).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles, Essays &amp; Chapters Books and Digital Content Other Writings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/maureen-brady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}