12, no 13, articles on eminent domain + 2 bonus tracks
[NB: updated 2016] Here is everything that I have written about eminent domain (not counting blog posts).
Journal Articles:
“The Problem With the Holdout Problem,” Review of Law & Economics 9(2), September 2013, pp.151-167 (with J. R. Clark)
“Pass a Law, Any Law, Fast! State Legislative Responses to the Kelo Backlash,” Review of Law & Economics 5:1, May 2009, pp.101-135 (with R. Todd Jewell and Noel D. Campbell)
“Kelo and its Discontents: The Worst (or Best?) Thing to Happen to Property Rights,” The Independent Review, XI:3, Winter 2007, pp.397-416 (with Sasha M. Totah)
Book Chapters:
“Making Property Rights Stronger in Tennessee: Limiting Discretionary Powers of Eminent Domain,” 2012, in J. R. Clark (editor), Freedom and Prosperity in Tennessee
“Property Takings in Developed Versus Developing Countries: Economics, Politics and the Limits of the Holdout Problem,” in Emily Chamlee-Wright (editor) The Annual Proceedings of The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, vol.2, 2011
“Below-Market Housing Mandates as Takings: Measuring Their Impact,” in Bruce Benson (editor) Property Rights: Eminent Domain and Regulatory Takings Re-examined, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (with Tom Means, Edward Peter Stringham)
“The Law and Economics of Property and Contract,” in Russell S. Sobel (editor) The Rule of Law, Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia, 2009
“Make Property Rights More Secure: Limit Eminent Domain,” in Russell S. Sobel (editor) Unleashing Capitalism, Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia, 2007 (with Carrie B. Kerekes and George H. Johnson)
Op-Eds:
“Ten Years After Kelo, Eminent Domain Blunders Continue,” Forbes, June 23, 2015
“Subtracting Eminent Domain from the Economic Development Equation,” The Enterpriser, 2012
“Will the Real Eminent Domain Reform Please Stand Up?” Commentary, The Independent Institute, May 29, 2008
“Taking the E.D. out of Economic Development,” North County Times, June 25, 2006
Policy Papers:
“Below-Market Housing Mandates as Takings: Measuring Their Impact,” Policy Report, The Independent Institute, Nov. 2007 (with Tom Means, Edward P. Stringham)
Papers Edited:
Ilya Somin, “Economic Development Takings as Government Failure”
John Brätland, “On the Impossibility of ‘Just Compensation’ When Property is Taken: An Ethical and Epistemic Inquiry”
both in Edward J. López (editor), The Pursuit of Justice: Law and Economics of Legal Institutions, Foreword by Robert D. Tollison, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010