Private Law Theory

“Twenty years ago, James Penner challenged us to rethink then-settled notions of property, like the ‘bundle of rights’ metaphor, and whether property truly has a ‘core’. These intellectual challenges have resonated throughout property scholarship ever since. In his recent book, Property Rights: A Re-Examination (2020), he does it again, reflecting on the past two decades of property scholarship, re-examining some of his own previous stands, and outlining a new set of challenges for private law scholars moving forward. In this review, I give a brief account of the key moves in Penner’s analysis …” (more)

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Yael R Lifshitz, ‘Penner, James, Property Rights: A Re-Examination, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 256 pp, £84.00′, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12723. First published 22 February.

First posted 2022-02-22 19:00:34