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Property Law and Real Estate

Gregory S Alexander

2012

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Properties Of Property, Gregory Alexander, Hanoch Dagan Apr 2012

Properties Of Property, Gregory Alexander, Hanoch Dagan

Gregory S Alexander

Broadly interdisciplinary, Properties of Property provides an overview of cutting-edge work from leading legal scholars as well as important non-legal scholars. The text is designed for an international audience, particularly teachers, scholars, and students throughout Europe, the British Commonwealth, and China. Properties of Property is perfectly suited for courses and seminars in other departments, from history to urban planning, both at the graduate and undergraduate level. It is a must for any law school library, even if no seminar on property theory is offered, because it appeals to law school students as well as scholars and graduate students interested in …


An Introduction To Property Theory, Gregory Alexander, Eduardo Peñalver Mar 2012

An Introduction To Property Theory, Gregory Alexander, Eduardo Peñalver

Gregory S Alexander

This book surveys the leading modern theories of property – Lockean, libertarian, utilitarian/law-and-economics, personhood, Kantian, and human flourishing – and then applies those theories to concrete contexts in which property issues have been especially controversial. These include redistribution, the right to exclude, regulatory takings, eminent domain, and intellectual property. The book highlights the Aristotelian human flourishing theory of property, providing the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to that theory to date. The book's goal is neither to cover every conceivable theory nor to discuss every possible facet of the theories covered. Instead, it aims to make the major property theories …