Entitlement the paradoxes of property - Singer, Joseph William (Yale University Press, 2000)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-233) and index
Singer offers a new view of property and the entitlements and obligations of its owners. The book argues against the conventional understanding that owners have the right to control their property as they see fit, with few limitations by government. Instead, property should be understood as a mode of organising social relations. The book focuses on the ways in which property law reflects and shapes social relationships. It contends that property is a matter not of right but of entitlement - and entitlement is a complex accommodation of mutual claims