The Idea of Property: Its Meaning and Power

ISBN-13: 9780199254187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 208 str.

Laura Underkuffler

Opis

This book examines the central issue in property theory, as it intersects with law: what property is, as an idea, and the power that claimed individual property rights should have against competing public goals. Drawing upon areas as diverse as land use, the body as property, personal information as property, cultural property, and state redistributive claims, the author shows that there are deep reasons for property's protective power, or lack of it, in these and other cases.

O autorze

Laura S. Underkuffler is Professor of Law at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. She has previously taught at a number of universities in the United States, including the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University, and has been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars in Washington, D.C.