The Downgraded Rights

Bernard Schwartz is not only a law professor at New York University and the former “runaway” chief counsel to the Special House Committee on Legislative Oversight, he is also a prolific writer. Indeed, to the faithful who have followed his writings over the years, Schwartz

The Rights of Property, by Bernard Schwartz. Macmillan, $12.50 serves as a virtual one-man Book-of-the-Month Club. His latest effort, The Rights of Property, is the third in a projected five-volume treatise aimed at embracing the whole of American constitutional law. As such, its scope is vast, even breathtaking (2585 footnotes for 328 pages of text). Among the subjects explored are due process, contracts, the police power, the public welfare, and eminent domain.

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Bernard Schwartz is not only a law professor at New York University and the former “runaway” chief counsel to the Special House Committee on Legislative Oversight, he is also a prolific writer. Indeed, to the faithful who have followed his writings over the years, Schwartz

The Rights of Property, by Bernard Schwartz. Macmillan, $12.50 serves as a virtual one-man Book-of-the-Month Club. His latest effort, The Rights of Property, is the third in a projected five-volume treatise aimed at embracing the whole of American constitutional law. As such, its scope is vast, even breathtaking (2585 footnotes for 328 pages of text). Among the subjects explored are due process, contracts, the police power, the public welfare, and eminent domain.