Property and Sovereignty: Legal and Cultural Perspectives
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Main Author: Smith, James Charles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013
Series:Law, property and society
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Property and Sovereignty in the Twenty-First Century; PART I: Fragile Nation States; 1 Relaxing Legal Norms to Restore Rights to Homes and Land in the Aftermath of War; 2 Property Endowments and Social Ordering: The Long Road to Land Law in East Timor; 3 Is there a Right to Territory in International Law?; PART II: New Worlds; 4 Outer Space and the Non-Appropriation Principle; 5 Property and Sovereignty in Virtual Worlds; PART III: The Arts; 6 Property and Sovereignty in HBO's Deadwood; 7 American Scenery and American Sovereignty
PART IV: Regulatory Property8 The Rise and Fall of the "Underclass"; 9 Governmental Marks; PART V: The Shaping of Private Law; 10 Adverse Possession and Sovereignty; 11 The Semi-Sovereign Corporation; 12 Status, Contract, Identity, and Sovereignty; Index
This book explores the relationships between property and the concept of sovereignty from a number of different perspectives. It distinguishes between the dual meaning of 'sovereignty' in property discourse - political sovereignty and owner sovereignty. The contributors discuss the nature of sovereignty in both senses, applying it to a wide range of topics such as the evolution of property rights in fragile and conflict-affected nation states and notions of sovereign property in new worlds. This is a valuable book for those in the fields of legal philosophy, property theory, international and
Physical Description:337 pages
ISBN:9781409444718
1409444716

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