This Article applies an information-cost theory of property to water law. Because of its fluidity, exclusion is difficult in the case of water and gives way to rule of proper use, i.e., governance regimes. Looking at water through this lens reveals that prior appropriation employs more...

Protection of Property Rights has become a pressing issue in China since the country strived to move from a planned economy to a market economy in late 1970's. The passage of the Property Law of China on March 16, 2007 marked an historic change in the country from public to private in respect to...

This paper provides new empirical results regarding the demand and supply of title, its impact on land value, and its effects on agricultural investment on Brazilian frontiers. We use survey data from 1992 and 1993 from the state of Para with data on the characteristics of the settlers, land...

Many Sub-Saharan African countries are embarking on major changes in their property rights law with the goal of achieving more vigorous economic growth and alleviating poverty. Uganda has been at the forefront of these changes in property rights in land with Constitutional change and a new land...

The article examines the recent efforts of the Property Rights Movement to expand the "property tent" to emcompass intellectual property. In eBay v. MercExchange, a case addressing the standard for injunctive relief in patent cases, some property rights advocates argued that the Supreme Court...

This paper examines the position of investors holding Greek sovereign bonds after the restructuring (PSI) which took place in 2012. After briefly reviewing the main features of the PSI, the paper undertakes to verify whether investors could challenge the operation on the basis of their property...

In this contribution an overview is given of, what might be called, the ‘matrix’ of European property law. This matrix (the “classical model” of property law) consists of two layers. The first layer encompasses the leading principles and ground rules of property law. The second layer...

In this article the author analyses if actual family property law still translate the common sense and values of today's society, by giving a rough sketch of some important issues that have pointed out in the last decades, first in matrimonial property law, then in inheritance and gift law, all...

Dit artikel gaat over de bepalingen van het Wetboek Internationaal Privaatrecht en familiaal vermogensrecht. De bepalingen omvatten relatievermogensrecht, erfrecht (inclusief testamenten) en schenkingen. In this article I discuss the provisions of the Codex of Conflicts of Law on Family Property...

Public policy often regards pollution and other measures of poor environmental quality as public bads that result from market failure and require government intervention through regulatory policies and more stringent environmental standards. In this article, I argue that pollution and...