| The Idea of Property: Its Meaning and Power Contributor(s): Underkuffler, Laura S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199254184 ISBN-13: 9780199254187 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Land Use - Law | Property - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 346.04 |
| LCCN: 2003545111 |
| Series: Law |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.12" W x 9.46" (0.98 lbs) 206 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |