Fundamental property rights are under assault. Your right to say who can be on your property, and what they can do there, will be limited to the point of irrelevance unless the Supreme Court agrees to ...

Despite current hype from Senate Democrats, the landmark cases of the next five years probably won't concern civil rights, abortion or other issues that have liberals so worked up. Current court ...

Property rights depend on the principle that you own yourself. If you own yourself, then you own the fruit of your labor. A medieval hunter cuts a branch and sharpens it into a spear. Now he has ...

Villagers shout for their farms and villages during protests against the Lebadaung copper mine project in Sarlingyi township in Myanmar on September 12, 2012 (Soe Zeya Tun/Courtesy Reuters). In a ...

Property rights are the foundation of a free society. They enable each of us to live according to our personal values and to pursue happiness in our own way, provided we don’t violate anyone else’s ...

Property owners have become all too accustomed to attacks on their fundamental property rights. Fortunately, late last week the U.S. Supreme Court took a major step in upholding these fundamental ...

For another analysis of the Commission on Unalienable Rights’ draft report, see “Why you shouldn’t dismiss Mike Pompeo’s report on human rights,” by Drew Christiansen, S.J., published on July 23. In a ...

The Duke Center for Firearms Law recently published my new essay on "Guns, Property Rights, and Takings." My piece is part of a symposium on "Privatizing the Gun Debate." Several additional ...

The answer to public-sector planning failures cannot be government seizure of private property that it had every opportunity to acquire. | Opinion ...

In his column on Condemnation and Tax Certiorari, Michael Rikon examines how the line between an eminent domain taking and regulating property to prevent harm to the public interest starts to blur in ...