Despite a centralized political system, country-wide legal reforms, and similar high housing demand pressures, property rights have evolved differently in Vietnam's two leading cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), during the transition period. Using ethnographic fieldwork and a hedonic...

We study a large-scale land titling reform implemented as a randomized control-trial to isolate its causal effects on litigation. The reform consisted of demarcating land parcels, registering existing customary rights, and granting additional legal protection to rightholders. We find that, ten...

This Article provides an introduction to land-related legal issues facing tribal governments and Indigenous peoples in the United States and is intended to encourage deeper and more widespread engagement on these important topics. Forced property law reforms have been used throughout history as...

Property rights are powerful. They fundamentally shape both the physical world and our social relations within it. Property choices impact how land and other resources are used (or conserved) and who has access to those resources (or who is excluded). At the same time, cultural discourses about...

The world today is afflicted by inequality of wealth created in large part by monopolistic ownership of land. Across the globe, in cities like Rio de Janeiro, Yangon, Johannesburg, and London, landowners in control of urban real estate in hot job markets have created a housing shortage. Hong...

China's 2007 Property Law provides a rare large scale quasi experiment to examine the impact of restoring property rights protections to private ownership of assets. The paper presents evidence of the Law's impact on the universe of Chinese firms over 1998-2013 utilizing novel administrative...

It is puzzling to many that China has maintained its socialist commitment to public land ownership while creating individual land rights that eliminated famine in rural China and ushered in the largest urban real estate market in the world. To make the situation even more puzzling, those land...

Property rights hold a central place in our Constitutional design and provide the foundation for America's market economy. Admiration of private property has not been universal, however. Some environmental scholars and policymakers have been particularly critical of classical liberal conceptions...

This chapter discusses intangible property and non-proprietary intangibles. It begins with a discussion of the idea of the right against interference as the basic right of property and compares it with idea of the right to the benefit of property. It discusses the idea of remedial consistency -...

The main thesis of this article is that individuals should own their user-held data. Rapidly developing data processing technologies empowers individuals to collect their data from different sources and retain it in personal data clouds. Such user-held data represents the most accurate,...