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Professor & Nathan T Nemetz Chair in Legal History

Douglas Harris researches and writes in the fields of property law and legal history, with a particular focus on property and cities. His current involves analysis ownership within condominium. His published work also includes studies of Aboriginal rights to fish in Canada and of systems for registering interests in land. Harris has served as Associate Dean Graduate Studies & Research, and he is currently Chair of the UBC Press Publications Board. In 2013, he received the George Curtis Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2016, the Law School’s Faculty Scholar Award for service.

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Douglas Harris researches and writes in the fields of property law and legal history, with a particular focus on property and cities. His current involves analysis ownership within condominium. His published work also includes studies of Aboriginal rights to fish in Canada and of systems for registering interests in land. Harris has served as Associate Dean Graduate Studies & Research, and he is currently Chair of the UBC Press Publications Board. In 2013, he received the George Curtis Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2016, the Law School’s Faculty Scholar Award for service.

Present	Professor, Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia
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property law, condominium, cities, and legal history

Condominium Law
Property Law

Legal History (2)

Property and Sovereignty: An Indian Reserve and a Canadian City (Douglas C. Harris) (2017) 50:2 UBC L Rev 321 (2017)

Property rights, wrote Morris Cohen in 1927, are delegations of sovereign power. They are created by the state and operate to establish limits on its power. As such, the allocation of property rights is an ...

A Railway, a City, and the Public Regulation of Private Property: CPR v. City of Vancouver (Douglas C. Harris) All Faculty Publications (2012)

The doctrine of regulatory or constructive taking establishes limits on the public regulation of private property in much of the common law world. When public regulation becomes unduly onerous — so as, in effect, to ...

Condominium: A Transformative Innovation in Property and Local Government (Douglas C. Harris) All Faculty Publications (2022)

Condominium is a form of ownership that produces separate parcels of land and a structure of local government within multi-unit developments. As one form of common interest community, condominium packages private property with a co-ownership ...

Embedded Property (Douglas C. Harris) All Faculty Publications (2021)

The institution of property arises in the tension between autonomy and community. It serves not simply to demarcate spaces of individual control and authority, but also to balance individual with collective interests. Private property and ...

Condominium Government and the Right to Live in the City (Douglas C. Harris) Canadian Journal of Law and Society (2019)

Condominium is an architecture of land ownership that produces separate, privately owned units within multi-unit developments. Condominium also constructs a form of private, democratic government, described as a fourth order of government, that acts beneath ...

Regulating Short-Term Accommodation within Condominium (Douglas C. Harris) CanLII Connects (2018)

Owning land within condominium, or strata property as it is known in British Columbia, includes holding an individual strata lot, a share of the common property, and the right to participate in governing the uses ...

An Error of Law and the Credibility of the Civil Resolution Tribunal (Douglas C. Harris and Sophie Marshall) CanLII Connects (2018)

When Deciding Whether to Allow a Taking of Property We Need to Ask What We Want Property Rights to Do (Douglas C. Harris) All Faculty Publications (2018)

In recognition of the dangers inherent to a regime that enables a majority of owners to terminate the individual property interests of a dissenting minority, the Strata Property Act requires that strata corporations secure court ...

Owning and Dissolving Strata Property (Douglas C. Harris) UBC Law Review (2017)

Strata or condominium property creates multiple privately owned lots or units within an association of owners. Dissolving strata property involves winding-up the association and terminating the private interests. As a result, the non-consensual dissolution of ...

Anti-Social Behaviour, Expulsion from Condominium, and the Reconstruction of Ownership (Douglas C. Harris) Osgoode Hall Law Journal (2016)

Statutory condominium regimes facilitate massive increases in the density of owners. The courts are responding to this spatial reorganization of ownership by reconstructing what it means to be the owner of an interest in land. ...

Title Registration and the Abolition of Notice in British Columbia (Douglas C. Harris and May Au) University of British Columbia Law Review (2014)

Systems of land law must balance competing goals of securing title for existing interests in land with facilitating their transfer. Title registration systems operate to facilitate transfers of interests in land. They reflect a choice ...

Finding Nemo Dat in the Land Title Act: A Comment on Gill v. Bucholtz (Douglas C. Harris and Karin Mickelson) University of British Columbia Law Review (2012)

This comment reviews the decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Gill v. Bucholtz and explores the implications for the allocation of risk in the province’s title registration system. The case involved a ...

Indefeasible Title in British Columbia: A Comment on the November 2005 Amendments to the Land Title Act (Douglas C. Harris) Advocate (2006)

In November 2005, as part of an omnibus statute amending 11 different acts, the British Columbia government made several significant changes to BC's Land Title Act. The government announced that the changes to the title ...

Food Fish, Commercial Fish, and Fish to Support a Moderate Livelihood: Characterizing Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to Canadian Fisheries (Douglas C. Harris and Peter Millerd) Arctic Review on Law and Politics (2010)

The Aboriginal peoples of Canada stand in a different legal relationship to the fisheries than non-Aboriginal Canadians. They do so by virtue of a long history with the fisheries that precedes non-Aboriginal settlement in North ...