I am delighted to report that Prof. Eric Claeys (George Mason, Antonin Scalia College of Legislation) shall be guest-blogging this week about his new e-book, Pure Property Rights. Here is the writer’s abstract:
Pure Property Rights presents a novel idea of property primarily based on particular person, pre-political rights. The e-book argues {that a} simply system of property protects folks’s rights to make use of sources and in addition orders these rights according to pure legislation and the general public welfare.
Drawing on influential property theorists comparable to Grotius, Locke, Blackstone, and early American statesmen and judges, in addition to current work in in normative and analytical philosophy, the e-book reveals how pure rights information political and authorized reasoning about property legislation. It examines how pure rights justify essentially the most acquainted establishments in property, together with public property, possession, the system of estates and future pursuits, leases, servitudes, mortgages, police regulation, and eminent area. Thought-provoking and complete, the e-book challenges main up to date justifications for property and reveals how property each secures particular person freedom and serves the widespread good.
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