The Construction of Property
Norms, Institutions, Challenges

Presents a structural and institutional theory of property and examines property regimes, protagonists of property and the challenges of globalisation.

Amnon Lehavi (Author)

9781107035386, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 June 2013

351 pages, 6 b/w illus.
23.3 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg

The Construction of Property identifies the structural and institutional foundations of property, and explains how these features can accommodate various normative agendas. Offering rich and cutting-edge analysis, the book studies the spectrum of property regimes including private, common and public property as well as innovative forms of property hybrids such as US-style residential community associations, the British Private Finance Initiative, the Israeli Renewing Kibbutz, community land trusts and grassroots phenomena of property ordering in publicly-owned open spaces. It also investigates the protagonists of property beyond the individual and the state, identifying the key role that community organisations and business corporations play for both the private and public aspects of property. The book then addresses property's greatest challenge: the move from a largely domestic legal construct into one that accommodates the increasing social and economic forces of globalisation.

Introduction
Part I. Structural and Institutional Foundations: 1. Property as a legal construct
2. Rules and standards: an institutional analysis of property
Part II. Spectrum of Property Regimes: 3. Private-common-public: the promise of property hybrids
Part III. Protagonists of Property: Beyond Individual and State: 4. How property can create, maintain, or destroy community
5. The corporation as a nexus of property
6. Eminent domain, incorporated
Part IV. The Global Challenges of Property: 7. Can land law go global?
8. BITs and pieces of property.

Subject Areas: Property law [LNS], Law [L], Social & political philosophy [HPS]