Private Law Theory

Nestor Davidson and David Fagundes, Law and Neighborhood Names, 72 Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming, 2019), available at SSRN. What’s in a name? According to Nestor Davidson and David Fagundes, in Law and Neighborhood Names, a lot. As the authors recognize, the conflicts over neighborhood names that seem to be popping up in city after city may, at first glance, seem ‘trivial’, ‘cosmetic’, or (I might add) downright silly. Perhaps for these reasons, government regulation of neighborhood naming has largely been passive, reactive, or weak. But neighborhood names are emblems for the communities, values, and conflicts that they demarcate … (more)

[Rashmi Dyal-Chand, JOTWELL, 24 June]

First posted 2019-06-25 05:42:48