The two questions I seek to address in these pages are what is public property and why does it matter. Public property, like property more generally, is a powerful legal arrangement of allocating control and use rights with respect to resources. Unlike private property, public property does not...

This short essay is my contribution to the third issue of the Revue Européenne du Droit, which will be dedicated to the possible, desirable or misguided, transformation of some fundamental aspects of the functioning of the market economy. It heavily draws on "A Liberal Theory of Property"

Recent large scale transnational transfers of land threaten members of rural communities in the developing world who rely for food and shelter on access to land they lack formal title to. Contrary to some of the conventional wisdom, this Essay argues that liberal property theory provides...