Bruce Yandle is alumni professor and Southern National Bank Scholar at Clemson University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation and co-editor, with Roger E. Meiners, of Rowman & Littlefield's Taking the Environment Seriously (1993).

The essays ... provide the reader with an excellent in-depth understanding of the property rights movement. This comprehensive and stimulating collection of essays provides a much-needed brief for those of us who cherish our constitutional guarantees. Booknews It is about time someone wrote about the usurpation of our Fifth Amendment guarantees. Bruce Yandle has assembled a group of eminent scholars to do just that and suggest ways to recover our liberties. -- Walter E. Williams, George Mason University Land Rights is well written, with the arguments thoughtfully presented and carefullly linked to both the academic literature and case law. Property rights advocates will thus find in this collection of papers a claim to academic legitimacy, while opponents will get a good look at what they are up against. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management This book is a 'must read' for all serious students ... substantive, well documented, generally well written and even entertaining in places. American Journal of Agricultural Economics It is must reading in the fight over ESA. Hms Beagle Log A fascinating, well-researched chronicle of the courts' failure to enforce constitutional protection of private property rights.d -- Louis De Alessi, University of Miami One reason the Fifth is so important-protection of property-is addressed here solidly and methodically. -- Jim Miller, McLean, Virginia

• Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The 1990's Land Rights Movement: The Who, What, When, Where/ and How Chapter 3 A History and Analysis of Regulatory Takings Jurisprudence Chapter 4 The Lucas Case Chapter 5 The Wetlands Controversy Chapter 6 Property Rights Conflicts and the Endangered Species Act Chapter 7 The Property Rights Movement and State Legislation Chapter 8 A Public Choice Analysis of Property Rights Legislation Chapter 9 Common Law as a Protector of Land Rights Chapter 10 Land Rights Communities—Alternatives to Takings