Category Archives: Property

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

A startling and definitive account of the “tragedy of the anticommons,” a hidden economic phenomenon that costs trillions in lost productivity and affects every field. Garrett Hardin’s famous “tragedy of the commons” states that when no one has a significant … Continue reading

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Government Pirates: The Assault on Private Property Rights–and How We Can Fight It

After years of hard work and saving, you finally own a home. But don’t get too comfortable. If government officials decide they want your property, they can take it—for a wide variety of shady reasons that go far beyond the … Continue reading

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Global Intellectual Property Law

`Dutfield and Suthersanen have skillfully captured in one concise volume all the important things you need to know about international intellectual property law. The materials are accessible, timely, methodically presented and at times critical. The book’s detailed, in-depth and comparative … Continue reading

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Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On

In the summer of 1900, a zeppelin stayed aloft for a full eighteen minutes above Lake Constance and mankind found itself at the edge of a new world. Where many saw hope and the dawn of another era, one man … Continue reading

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The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: ‘Restoring What Was Ours’

The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: ‘Restoring What Was Ours’ offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of land restitution programs.Drawing on memories and histories of past dispossession, governments, NGOs, informal movements and individual claimants worldwide have attempted to restore … Continue reading

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Property in Securities: A Comparative Study (Cambridge Studies in Corporate Law)

Micheler analyses the German, Austrian and English law of securities, addressing the rules governing transfers of securities, including unauthorised transfers, equities arising out of defective issues, and the holding of securities through intermediaries. The book presents an account of the … Continue reading

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Housing and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons: Laws, Cases, and Materials

The legal recognition of the housing, land, and property rights of refugees and displaced persons has expanded steadily in recent years as the realization has grown that securing these rights will be beneficial to long-term peace, stability, economic vitality, and … Continue reading

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Property: Meanings, Histories, Theories (Critical Approaches to Law)

This critique of property examines its classical conception: addressing its ontology and history, as well as considering its symbolic aspects andconnection to social relations of power. It is organized around three themes: – the ways in which concepts of property … Continue reading

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Possession of Land

Nothing is more important in English land law than ‘possession’. It is the foundation of all title, rights and remedies. But what exactly is it, and why does it still matter? This book is about the meaning, significance and practical … Continue reading

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People, Property, or Pets? (New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond)

A child can’t be owned, but parents are legally responsible for their child’s care. A painting and a dog can be owned; both fall under the jurisdiction of the law and in particular, property rights. But why should a dog, … Continue reading

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