Lior Strahilevitz
Professor of Law and Walter Mander Teaching Scholar
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-834-8665
email: lior@uchicago.edu

Current Year Courses

• 30411 2 Property
  This course, offered over two sequential quarters, provides an introduction to the legal relationships that arise out of or constitute ownership of property. Subjects covered may include, but are not limited to, such areas as the initial acquisition of rights in real and personal property, the nature of ownership of natural resources, the various types of concurrent and successive interests in land, and restraints on alienation. The course will also deal with the law relating to easements and covenants, landlord and tenant, and conveyancing. The students grade is based on a single final examination.
  Autumn (3) 1L
  
  
• 49901 36 Independent Research
  Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
  Autumn (3)
  
  
• 79501 1 Privacy
  This course surveys society's efforts to draw boundaries between the public and private spheres, with a focus on the legal regimes governing the collection, aggregation, and dissemination of private information. The course devotes substantial attention to the privacy-related torts, government surveillance, privacy-related First Amendment issues, and international privacy law. Other substantive topics that may be covered include consumer privacy on the Internet, Megan's Law, associational privacy, the Freedom of Information Act's privacy provisions, and medical privacy. The student's grade is based on a final examination and participation.
  Spring (3)
  
  
• 95502 1 Property Theory
  This seminar surveys the "great works" of property law. The readings will include a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of property, including historical, sociological, law-and-economics, psychological, and critical perspectives, and will consist of law review articles and book excerpts. Each student will write a series of short papers that critiques the assigned readings and applies their insights to pertinent judicial opinions that the student locates via independent research. Students will be graded on the basis of these short papers and class participation.
  Spring (3)
  
  

Other courses taught include:

• Property
• Privacy
• Law and the Economic Development of Chicago
• Trade Secrets
• Social Norms