Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land by Amanda Byer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 88 pp, £24.99. Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land, authored by Amanda Byer, is a concise and ambitious book. It is published in the Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies series. The book originates from a postdoctoral research endeavour that was part of the Property [In]Justice project sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC) and directed by Amy Strecker. It comprises six concise chapters, besides the introduction and conclusion. Placing Property takes a critical approach to the prevailing understanding of property in land, aligning with the ERC’s project, which examines how law facilitates spatial justice and injustice by shaping property rights in land …
Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, Review of Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land by Amanda Byer, Journal of Law and Society. First published: 30 April 2024.
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