This Article reflects upon Professor John Copeland Nagle’s scholarship on public land with an emphasis on how his work might extend to the issue of accessibility. Professor John Copeland Nagle was a talented yet humble man of deep kindness and religious convictions. In addition to being a...

This paper analyzes the effect of public land on local economies in the western United States. In large part, the current distribution of western public lands is the result of federal land disposal policies of the 19th century. This historical context is important for two reasons. First, it...

How does the enforcement of property rights affects land accumulation by landed elites? Using a unique classification of the local agricultural workforce and a differencein- difference framework I show how landed elites, relative to landless peasants, benefited from Colombian land reform during...

Solar power is now economically competitive with fossil fuels in many countries, yet relatively few homeowners have installed solar panels on their property. A principal reason for this behavior stems from cognitive biases--such as myopia, inertia and herding--that cause consumers to avoid...

This essay explores the legal implications of decisions by local governments to limit access to federal public lands within their boundaries (such as national forests and BLM lands) during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Some local governments utilized indirect and legally...

Outdoor recreation is assuming a prominent role across the public lands, presenting the responsible federal agencies with difficult, new management challenges. Since World War II, recreational uses of public lands have been on a steady upward trajectory, which has only accelerated during this...

Solar power is now economically competitive with fossil fuels in many countries, yet relatively few homeowners have installed solar panels on their property. A principal reason for this behavior stems from cognitive biases—such as myopia, inertia and herding—that cause consumers to avoid...

The United States deed recording system alters the “first in time, first in right” doctrine to enable good faith purchasers to record their deeds to protect themselves against prior unrecorded conveyances, and to provide constructive notice of their interests to potential subsequent...

This 263-page book is fascinating not only for its vivid account of the history of the American West but also for its economic analysis of the spontaneous emergence of property rights. In Hollywood movies, the center stage belongs to gunslingers who profit through violence. In The Not So Wild,...