Property: Values and Institutions

338 Pages·2011·1.14 MB·English

by  Hanoch Dagan

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contents
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Property and Realism xi
part one: property
Chapter 1. The Craft of Property 3
Chapter 2. Exclusion and Inclusion in Property 37
Chapter 3. From Independence and Interdependence to the
Pluralism of Property 57
Chapter 4. Property and the Public Domain 77
part two: state
Chapter 5. Takings and Distributive Justice 87
Chapter 6. Just Compensation, Incentives, and Social Meanings 123
Chapter 7. Reimagining Takings Law 139
part three: community
Chapter 8. The Liberal Commons 155
Chapter 9. Properties of Marriage 197
Chapter 10. Confl icts in Property 229
Notes 245
Index 305
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acknowledgments
Eight of the chapters included in this book were previously published, and
I gratefully acknowledge the permission to incorporate them in this volume: T he
Craft of Property , 92 C al. L. Rev. 1517 (2003); P roperty and the Public Domain , 17
Yale J.L. & Human. 84 (Supp 2006); T akings and Distributive Justice , 85 V a. L. Rev.
741 (1999); J ust Compensation, Incentives, and Social Meanings , 99 M ich. L. Rev.
134 (2000); R e-Imagining Takings Law , in Property and Community3 9 (Gregory
S. Alexander & Eduardo M. Peñalver eds., Oxford University Press 2009); T he
Liberal Commons , 110 Yale L.J. 549 (2001); Properties of Marriage , 104 Colum. L.
Rev. 75 (2004); and C onflicts in Property , 6 Theoretical Inq. L.197 (2005). These
chapters are reprinted here with only minor adaptations, aimed primarily to
minimize repetitions, to unify terminology, to reduce some of the heavy foot-
notes of the original articles (either by moving some to the text or by combining,
shortening, or eliminating quite a few others), and to replace some of the origi-
nal references with references to other chapters or to my recent writing on legal
realism. (An exception is chapter 8, in which I have also omitted, for the same
reasons as mentioned above, two subsections.)
Three of these articles are co-authored: The Liberal Commons and C onflicts in
Property with Michael A. Heller; and P roperties of Marriage with Carolyn J. Frantz.
I am particularly thankful to Michael and Carolyn for these collaborative efforts
which were in all three cases intellectually stimulating.
N umerous friends and colleagues generously commented on various
chapters, many of them on more than one or two: Bruce Ackerman, Michal
Alberstein, Greg Alexander, Michelle Anderson, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Doug Baird,
Jack Balkin, Stuart Banner, Jane Baron, Ben Barros, Itzik Benbaji, Yochai Benkler,
Omri Ben-Shahar, Bethany Berger, Michael Birnhack, Grace Ganz Blumberg,
Oren Bracha, Evan Caminker, Abigail Carter, Mary Anne Case, Eric Claeys,
Marion Crain, Meir Dan-Cohen, Avihay Dorfman, Niva Elkin-Koren, Bob
Ellickson, Yuval Feldman, Mark Fenster, Tali Fisher, Carolyn Frantz, Michelle
Friedland, Joshua Getzler, Risa Goluboff, Jeff Gordon, Robert Gordon, Wendy
Gordon, Sam Gross, Sharon Hannes, Alon Harel, Michael Heller, Don Herzog,
Rick Hills, Rob Howse, Larissa Katz, Greg Keating, Sandy Kedar, Marjorie
Kornhauser, Russell Korobkin, Roy Kreitner, Jim Krier, David Lametti, Shai Lavi,
Sylvia Law, Amnon Lehavi, Jeff Lehman, Rick Lempert, Larry Lessig, Daphna
Lewinsohn-Zamir, Shachar Lifshitz, Ann Lipton, Kyle Logue, Paul Mahoney,
Anup Malani, Ronald Mann, Tali Margalit, Daniel Markovits, Menny Mautner,
Barak Medina, Robert Merges, Tom Merrill, Bill Miller, Martha Minow, Maria
Montoya, Steve Munzer, Neil Netanel, Steve Nock, Jacob Nussim, Tom Oldham,
Gideon Parchomovsky, Sallyanne Payton, Eduardo Peñalver, James Penner, Oren