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Reconstructing The World Trade Center: An Argument For The Applicability Of Personhood Theory To Commercial Property Ownership And Use, Mary Clark Jan 2005

Reconstructing The World Trade Center: An Argument For The Applicability Of Personhood Theory To Commercial Property Ownership And Use, Mary Clark

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Property, Michael A. Heller Jan 2005

Property, Michael A. Heller

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This article argues that despite its seeming disintegration, property is more vibrant than ever — it is a field that has focused on understanding the formal and informal institutions by which society channels decision-making for scarce resources. Many exciting recent innovations in property theory have arisen through dialogue between US and Commonwealth scholars and legislatures. The article is organized as follows. The first part explains the focus on analytic property theory, which is posed in distinction to a jurisprudential approach. The second part introduces the familiar division of ownership into a trilogy of ideal types: private, commons, and state. The …