. This Article develops a “cultural” theory of how property institutions are created and demonstrates that such a theory is …Do “cultural factors” substantively influence the creation and evolution of property institutions? For the past several … property institutions as the outcome of self-interested and utilitarian bargaining, and therefore often question the analytical …

have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in … relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws enabling the equitable redistribution of property in the event of relationship …

nationality to children born in their territory, if they would be otherwise stateless. In prior scholarship, this author has … international law, stateless children can identify the state where they were born as the state that must grant them nationality, if … stateless children, and they are also increasingly revising and expressing the opinion that such a solution is desirable …

Are children harmed when states act to prohibit discrimination against same-sex couples who wish to foster or adopt … laws increase children’s success of finding both foster homes and adoptive homes and reduce the time it takes to place … children in both settings. The effects vary among subgroups, such that often children who are least likely to find a home …

the community to which they would naturally belong, women and children lose their cultural heritage. Paradoxically …

Over the last several decades there has been a proliferation of property-type rights created by statute, particularly … classifying them as a new category of "statutory property". However, this article suggests that we should recognise that these … types of rights are private property. This argument is based on the premise that private property serves a variety of social …

This article explains the concepts applying to property transfer on death under the New Zealand Property (Relationships …

with the death provisions of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (PRA). The author analyses the decision in detail, and …