The New Private Law Blog

Henry Smith (Harvard) and John Goldberg (Harvard) have founded a new blog that will be of interest to many readers: The New Private Law Blog. The blog will feature a wide-ranging discussion of issues concerning the rights and duties of individuals and private entities as they relate to one another. Future blog posts will address topics in contracts, torts, property, intellectual property, remedies, restitution, and related areas.
 
One of the initial posts lists the 50 most-cited private law articles since 1990 (see here).  The top real property related entries:

1.  Lisa Bernstein, Opting out of the Legal System: Extralegal Contractual Relations in the Diamond Industry, 21 J. Legal Stud. 115 (1992)

2. Cheryl Harris, Whiteness as Property, 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1707 (1993)

3.  Michael Heller, The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets, 111 Harv. L. Rev. 621 (1998)

4.  Robert Ellickson, Property in Land, 102 Yale L.J. 1315 (1993)

5.  Thomas Merrill & Henry Smith, Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle, 110 Yale L.J. 1 (2000)