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23T16:11:44.718-04:00Tom, Let me suggest one way of making
history a bi...Tom,<br />Let me suggest one way of making
history a bit less interstitial in a property course.<br /><br
/>One of the challenges of the first year is to introduce
students to the legal practices and conventions that produce a
body of law without exaggerating its fixity or suggesting it was
the product of (to borrow from Bob Gordon) some immanent,
functionalist logic. My corrective is to emphasize those moments
in property course when seemingly fixed law changed, such as the
landlord-tenant revolution, the remaking of servitude law to
accommodate the residential subdivision, and the conservative
legal foundation&#39;s c