Introduction:
… However, my driving commitment is towards understanding the development of property law and theory in the context of the larger, long-term social, economic, and political transformations of modern Europe and beyond. In the sections that follow, I will outline the main lines of this research agenda: (a) understanding the relation between property and long-term economic change by focusing on the relation between property law and what historians call ‘social property’ relations; (b) understanding property concepts and ideas in the context of the larger ideological and philosophical ideas that shaped the immediate world of jurists and property lawyers; (c) looking beyond the single, contingent episodes of the history of property law and identifying long-term patterns and regularities in the way jurists conceptualized property; and (d) understanding European property culture in its many entanglements with the non-European world. I will conclude with some thoughts about the role of presentism in the history of property …
Robilant, Anna A Research Agenda for the History of Property Law in Europe, Inspired by and Dedicated to Marc Poirier, Seton Hall Law Review volume 47 : issue 3, Article 4.
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