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Research Handbook on Property, Law and Theory
This comprehensive Research Handbook interrogates and offers historical as well as contemporary understandings of property, property law and property theory. Chapters locate the role of property in key theoretical debates and examine property’s place in significant social contexts, covering topics such as Indigenous property, artificial intelligence, cryptoassets, property and the art world, environmentalism and climate change.
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This comprehensive Research Handbook interrogates and offers historical as well as contemporary understandings of property, property law and property theory. Chapters locate the role of property in key theoretical debates and examine property’s place in significant social contexts, covering topics such as Indigenous property, artificial intelligence, cryptoassets, property and the art world, environmentalism and climate change.
Bringing together over 30 contributors from Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America, the Research Handbook surveys the dynamic fields of property and property law across legal traditions through different historical, contemporary, comparative and jurisdiction-specific lenses. Contributing authors pose questions as to how property can and should be theorised and conceptualised, incorporating insights from feminist and LGBTQ+ perspectives, as well as questions surrounding property and emotion, squatting and human rights issues. Contributors explore how property operates in different legal frameworks and in these distinct contexts, reflecting on property’s place in theory and society.
Presenting unique insights from leading experts in the field, this prescient Research Handbook is a thought-provoking read for students and scholars of legal theory, property law, property theory and socio-legal studies.
Bringing together over 30 contributors from Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America, the Research Handbook surveys the dynamic fields of property and property law across legal traditions through different historical, contemporary, comparative and jurisdiction-specific lenses. Contributing authors pose questions as to how property can and should be theorised and conceptualised, incorporating insights from feminist and LGBTQ+ perspectives, as well as questions surrounding property and emotion, squatting and human rights issues. Contributors explore how property operates in different legal frameworks and in these distinct contexts, reflecting on property’s place in theory and society.
Presenting unique insights from leading experts in the field, this prescient Research Handbook is a thought-provoking read for students and scholars of legal theory, property law, property theory and socio-legal studies.
Critical Acclaim
‘Of all collections in property, law and theory, this book stands out. Its breadth and depth are extraordinary, with contributions from pre-eminent and emerging scholars from five continents. It ranges from critiques and defenses of the classic justifications for the human institution of property to squatters’ rights, the LGBTQ+ community, digital property, and the impending collision between established property rights and climate catastrophe. This is the resource in the field published in the last twenty years.’
– Laura Underkuffler, Cornell University, US
‘A fascinating and thought-provoking compilation for anyone interested in property. The Research Handbook asks difficult questions and provides many answers, leaving plenty of scope for contributors to develop new arguments and ideas. A highly rewarding read for anyone interested in property research and practice.’
– Antonia Layard, University of Oxford, UK
‘This indispensable Research Handbook brings together an extraordinary group of property scholars from around the world. The result is a richly stimulating volume that traces property thought from its origins and first principles to its urgent contemporary applications and controversies.’
– Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, University of Chicago, US
– Laura Underkuffler, Cornell University, US
‘A fascinating and thought-provoking compilation for anyone interested in property. The Research Handbook asks difficult questions and provides many answers, leaving plenty of scope for contributors to develop new arguments and ideas. A highly rewarding read for anyone interested in property research and practice.’
– Antonia Layard, University of Oxford, UK
‘This indispensable Research Handbook brings together an extraordinary group of property scholars from around the world. The result is a richly stimulating volume that traces property thought from its origins and first principles to its urgent contemporary applications and controversies.’
– Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, University of Chicago, US
Contents
Contents
Foreword xiv
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Property, Law and Theory:
Revisiting classical accounts and exploring contemporary contexts and
challenges 2
Chris Bevan
2 Justifying property: looking beyond the Blackstonian paradigm of
private ownership by a self-interested autonomous human individual 15
Alison Clarke
3 Real property rights in England and Wales: removing the law/equity distinction 37
Martin Dixon
4 Possession, use, and exclusion 52
James Y. Stern
5 Boundaries 73
Gregory S. Alexander
PART II CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF
PROPERTY THEORY
6 Utilitarian property theories 89
Gregory S. Alexander and Eduardo M. Peñalver
7 Locke’s theory of property 109
Thomas J. Berry
8 After Hegel: rethinking personhood for the collective 125
Amelia Thorpe, Amy J. Cohen and Ilana Gershon
9 Authority and acquisition: Kant on property in the state of nature 142
Luke J. Davies
10 The concept of property in Marx 155
K. Nikias
11 Radical contingency and the bundle of rights 169
Jane B. Baron
12 Progressive property’s Thomistic turn: connecting human sustenance
and human flourishing 182
Rachael Walsh
13 Liberal property theory 197
Hanoch Dagan
14 Destabilizing property 214
Ezra Rosser
15 Property theory’s neglect of non-private property 231
Leon Terrill
16 Property as service streams 247
Lee Anne Fennell
17 The praxis of real estate law: more than scriveners of the deal 263
Robin Paul Malloy
PART III PROPERTY IN CONTEXT
18 Feminist perspectives on property law 278
Rosemary Auchmuty
19 Property and the LGBTQ+ community: the example of the United States 294
Nancy J. Knauer
20 Indigenous peoples and the violence of ‘property’: can human rights
law support decolonisation? 312
Saskia Vermeylen, Jérémie Gilbert and Cindy Kobei
21 Eminent domain, regulatory takings and the right to property 326
Víðir Smári Petersen and Bram Akkermans
22 Property law and emotions 345
Heather Conway and John Stannard
23 Property in human body parts 361
Imogen Goold
24 Speculation, squatting and sustainability 377
Lorna Fox O’Mahony and Marc L. Roark
25 Rights and challenges in the technological domain: navigating the
transformations of digital property 394
Nicola Lucchi
26 Property and the art world 406
Emma J. L. Waring
27 Intellectual property rights and private law entitlements 422
Robert P. Merges
28 Intellectual property law in gaming and artificial intelligence 448
Enrico Bonadio and Alina Trapova
29 Cryptoassets and the renaissance of the tertium quid? 463
Kelvin F. K. Low
30 Property rights and environmental ethics 479
James Penner
31 Private property and climate change 494
P. T. Babie
Index 510
Foreword xiv
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Property, Law and Theory:
Revisiting classical accounts and exploring contemporary contexts and
challenges 2
Chris Bevan
2 Justifying property: looking beyond the Blackstonian paradigm of
private ownership by a self-interested autonomous human individual 15
Alison Clarke
3 Real property rights in England and Wales: removing the law/equity distinction 37
Martin Dixon
4 Possession, use, and exclusion 52
James Y. Stern
5 Boundaries 73
Gregory S. Alexander
PART II CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF
PROPERTY THEORY
6 Utilitarian property theories 89
Gregory S. Alexander and Eduardo M. Peñalver
7 Locke’s theory of property 109
Thomas J. Berry
8 After Hegel: rethinking personhood for the collective 125
Amelia Thorpe, Amy J. Cohen and Ilana Gershon
9 Authority and acquisition: Kant on property in the state of nature 142
Luke J. Davies
10 The concept of property in Marx 155
K. Nikias
11 Radical contingency and the bundle of rights 169
Jane B. Baron
12 Progressive property’s Thomistic turn: connecting human sustenance
and human flourishing 182
Rachael Walsh
13 Liberal property theory 197
Hanoch Dagan
14 Destabilizing property 214
Ezra Rosser
15 Property theory’s neglect of non-private property 231
Leon Terrill
16 Property as service streams 247
Lee Anne Fennell
17 The praxis of real estate law: more than scriveners of the deal 263
Robin Paul Malloy
PART III PROPERTY IN CONTEXT
18 Feminist perspectives on property law 278
Rosemary Auchmuty
19 Property and the LGBTQ+ community: the example of the United States 294
Nancy J. Knauer
20 Indigenous peoples and the violence of ‘property’: can human rights
law support decolonisation? 312
Saskia Vermeylen, Jérémie Gilbert and Cindy Kobei
21 Eminent domain, regulatory takings and the right to property 326
Víðir Smári Petersen and Bram Akkermans
22 Property law and emotions 345
Heather Conway and John Stannard
23 Property in human body parts 361
Imogen Goold
24 Speculation, squatting and sustainability 377
Lorna Fox O’Mahony and Marc L. Roark
25 Rights and challenges in the technological domain: navigating the
transformations of digital property 394
Nicola Lucchi
26 Property and the art world 406
Emma J. L. Waring
27 Intellectual property rights and private law entitlements 422
Robert P. Merges
28 Intellectual property law in gaming and artificial intelligence 448
Enrico Bonadio and Alina Trapova
29 Cryptoassets and the renaissance of the tertium quid? 463
Kelvin F. K. Low
30 Property rights and environmental ethics 479
James Penner
31 Private property and climate change 494
P. T. Babie
Index 510
