The Idea of Property: Its Meaning and Power

by Laura S. Underkuffler

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199254184
• ISBN13: 9780199254187
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.5"