Property and Legal Institutions
Intermediate
Governance Strategy
A legal strategy that regulates particular uses of a resource or particular relations among parties more directly than a general right to exclude.
Why It Matters
Governance rules such as nuisance standards, servitudes, and land-use restrictions become attractive when recurrent conflicts justify the additional information and administrative costs of tailoring.
Selected Literature
A short list of directly relevant archive entries.
1960
Introductory
1991
Advanced
2012
Advanced
Related Cases
1879
Foundations of Law and Economics
Sturges v. Bridgman
11 Ch. D. 852 (1879)
Nuisance, coming to the nuisance, and reciprocal conflicts over incompatible land uses.
1970
Foundations of Law and Economics
Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.
26 N.Y.2d 219, 257 N.E.2d 870 (1970)
Permanent damages, injunctions, and the choice between property-rule and liability-rule protection.
1972
Foundations of Law and Economics
Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb Development Co.
108 Ariz. 178, 494 P.2d 700 (1972)
Coming to the nuisance, injunctions, and indemnity for relocating incompatible land uses.