“For readers like me, reading Hanoch Dagan’s A Liberal Theory of Property, will be both enriching and painful. The book is enriching because it is a highly engaging explication of what property could be, a narrative that is internally consistent, logical, and very persuasive. At the same time, it is painful because Dagan’s ideal of property, which he argues can only be justified by a commitment to individual autonomy, is such a desperately far cry from our present reality. In particular, as I read the book I found myself wondering whether any vision of autonomy – even one that is so deeply grounded on a thick idea of relational justice, and that is as other-regarding and protective of equal access and distribution as Dagan’s – could sufficiently and single handedly anchor property law in responding to our current state of crisis …” (more)
[Rashmi Dyal-Chand, LPE Project, 28 January]
First posted 2021-01-28 13:48:14
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