The Brennan Center for Justice State Court Report (NYU) has published my new article on the Supreme Court's recent important takings decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County. Here's an excerpt: Last week, ...

The Supreme Court ruled that home equity theft qualifies as a taking, and that state law is not the sole source for the definition of property rights. The ruling is imprecise on some points, but still ...

There are a thousand different ways we measure cultural and technological change, whether it’s comparing a smartphone to a Commodore 64 or remembering how expensive it used to be to phone Grandma. But ...

Ronald Utt is the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow. On June 23rd, the U.S. Supreme Court sent shock waves through the ranks of the nation's homeowners and small businesses when it ruled ...

Alexander Hamilton said at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that “one great obj[ect] of Gov[ernment] is the personal protection and security of property.” James Madison, similarly, wrote that ...