This Article constructs a political and institutional model of property, offering an innovative approach for addressing some of property's most puzzling features. The central thesis of this Article is that regardless of our preferred substantive justifications for property, dramatic decisions...

This book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the complex interplay between private versus public forms of organization and governance in urban residential developments. Bringing together top experts from numerous disciplines, including law, economics, geography, political...

Introduction -- Part I- Literature Survey.-1. A Database Exploring Blockchain and Real Estate -- Part II- Theoretical Aspects -- Chapter 2. From Blackstone to Blockchain: Theorizing Property Law in the Age of Cryptography -- Chapter 3. Prospects of Blockchain in Contract and Property -- Part...

This paper breaks new ground toward contractual and institutional innovation in models of homeownership, equity building, and mortgage enforcement. Inspired by recent developments in the affordable housing sector and in other types of public financing schemes, this paper suggests extending...

This Article breaks new ground toward contractual and institutional innovation in models of homeownership, equity building, and mortgage enforcement. Inspired by recent developments in the affordable housing sector and other types of public financing schemes, we suggest extending institutional...

Property law today faces what may be its greatest challenge ever: changing from a domestic legal institution into one that accommodates globalization. Central to this trend are bilateral investment treaties (BITs), which seem to offer an optimal solution for the protection of foreign...

Much scholarly attention has been paid recently to the optimal design of legal norms as constituting either clear-cut “rules” or open-ended “standards.” The reemergence of formalist thought across schools and ideologies calling to reinforce a more rule-based regime in various legal...

Is land becoming a global commodity? Who are the actors shaping such a cross-border market for real estate and who remains excluded from participating in it? Which types of interrelations do local and supranational legal systems have in ordering property rights and other legal interests in what...

The right to property is probably the oldest real right, much before concepts such as “right” or “real” (as opposed to “personal”) were outlined. It has often been regarded as a “natural” right, derived from nature. Therefore, controversies on property are certainly as old as...