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M. C. Mirow

2016

Property

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Rerum Novarum: New Things And Recent Paradigms Of Property Law, M. C. Mirow Dec 2015

Rerum Novarum: New Things And Recent Paradigms Of Property Law, M. C. Mirow

M. C. Mirow

The two most recent paradigmatic moments in the development of property law were the construction of "social property" about a hundred years ago and of "international property" quite recently. This study analyses two important texts as illustrations of these changes: Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) and John Sprankling's book The International Law of Property (2014). Each text signals a paradigm shift in our understanding of property.