JE Penner, Property Rights, A Re-Examination (2020). In my last year of law school, through the dark days of an Alberta winter, I read a book about property law by a young professor visiting from England. It was a dazzling book, brilliant and witty, learned and ambitious. It made clear that the idea of property was the proper subject of philosophical inquiry, something both obvious and marvelous that would repay close attention. That book, The Idea of Property in Law (1997), and its author, James Penner, have stood as a source of inspiration for property theorists (myself included) ever since. Now almost twenty-five years later, James Penner has revisited that account of property in a new book, the aptly-named, Property Rights: A Re-Examination. What was so striking about The Idea of Property in Law, then and now? The first is its attempt to account for property in terms of its two essential features … (more)
[Larissa Katz, JOTWELL, 3 February]
First posted 2021-02-04 08:56:41
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