“Hanoch Dagan’s A Liberal Theory of Property presents a thorough, thoughtful, and to our minds, convincing take on what a specifically liberal justification of property entails. It deserves to be in the modern canon of property theory. Dagan argues that a liberal justification of property requires structuring entitlements so as to enhance individual autonomy and he lays out what autonomy means by elaborating what he calls ‘structural pluralism’ and ‘relational justice’. (One of us advanced a similar normative theory of property law in a 2010 book and earlier articles published in 2005 and 2006, although without the synoptic richness that Dagan has developed over several decades of work.) …” (more)
[David Singh Grewal and Jedediah Purdy, LPE Project, 25 January]
First posted 2021-01-25 15:16:02
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