Properties of Law

Properties of Law

Author: Kaarlo Tuori

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-09-16

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1108844723

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The book relates the normativity of law to law's internal sociality and shows the multi-layered nature of legal normativity.


Nature's Metaphysics

Nature's Metaphysics

Author: Alexander Bird

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2007-08-09

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0199227012

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Bird, a world-leader in the field, offers an original approach to key issues in philosophy. He discusses hot topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of science.


The Fugitive's Properties

The Fugitive's Properties

Author: Stephen M. Best

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-05-15

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 0226241114

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In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key nineteenth-century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films. Best also argues that legal principles dealing with fugitives and indebted persons provided a sophisticated precursor to intellectual property law as it dealt with rights in appearance, expression, and other abstract aspects of personhood. In this conception of property as fleeting, indeed fugitive, American law preserved for much of the rest of the century slavery's most pressing legal imperative: the production of personhood as a market commodity. By revealing the paradoxes of this relationship between fugitive slave law and intellectual property law, Best helps us to understand how race achieved much of its force in the American cultural imagination. A work of ambitious scope and compelling cross-connections, The Fugitive's Properties sets new agendas for scholars of American literature and legal culture.


The Law of Property

The Law of Property

Author: William B. Stoebuck

Publisher: West Academic Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1156

ISBN-13:

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Reliable source on property laws surveys estates in land-;present, future, and concurrent, comparable interests in personalty, landlord and tenant law, and rights against neighbors and other third persons. Also examines easements and profits, running covenants, governmental controls on land use, land contracts, conveyances, titles, and recording systems. Contains footnote citations to leading court decisions for easy location of primary authority.


Changing Properties of Property

Changing Properties of Property

Author: Franz von Benda-Beckmann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781845457273

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As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transformations. The property claimants discussed in these papers represent a diverse range of actors, including post-socialist states and their citizens, those receiving restitution for past property losses in Africa, Southeast Asia and in eastern Europe, collectives, corporate and individual actors. The volume thus provides a comprehensive anthropological analysis not only of property structures and ideologies, but also of property (and its politics) in action.


Properties of Violence

Properties of Violence

Author: David Correia

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13:

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Through the compelling story of the Tierra Amarilla conflict, David Correia examines how law and property, in general, and a Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, in particular, have been constituted through violence and social struggle. Spain and Mexico populated what is today New Mexico through large common property land grants to sheepherders and agriculturalists. After the U.S.-Mexican War the area saw rampant land speculation and dubious property adjudication with nearly all the grants being rejected by U.S. courts or acquired by land speculators. Of all the land grant conflicts in New Mexico's history, Tierra Amarilla is one of the most sensational, with numerous nineteenth-century speculators ranking among the state's political and economic elite and a remarkable pattern of resistance to land loss by heirs in the twentieth century. Correia narrates a long and largely unknown history of property conflict in Tierra Amarilla characterized by nearly constant violence-night riding and fence cutting, pitched gun battles, and tanks rumbling along the rutted dirt roads of northern New Mexico. The legal geography he constructs is one that includes a remarkable cast of characters: millionaire sheep barons, Spanish anarchists, hooded Klansmen, Puerto Rican freedom fighters-or as J. Edgar Hoover, another of the characters in Correia's story would have called them, "terrorists." By placing property and law at the center of his study, "Properties of Violence" first reveals and then examines a central irony: violence is not the opposite of law but rather is essential to its operation.


The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties

The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties

Author: Rosemary J. Coombe

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1998-10-13

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780822321194

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DIVAn ethnography of inellectual property, discussing the uses made of items of inellectual property by various cultural groups -- for purposes of identity, solidaritiy, resistance and so forth. /div


Colonial Lives of Property

Colonial Lives of Property

Author: Brenna Bhandar

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 082237157X

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In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examining both historical cases and ongoing processes of settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel and Palestine, Bhandar shows how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as upon legal narratives that equate civilized life with English concepts of property. In this way, property law legitimates and rationalizes settler colonial practices while it racializes those deemed unfit to own property. The solution to these enduring racial and economic inequities, Bhandar demonstrates, requires developing a new political imaginary of property in which freedom is connected to shared practices of use and community rather than individual possession.


The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

Author: Marie-Claire Foblets

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 993

ISBN-13: 0192577018

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The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology. Each of the chapters in the Handbook provides a survey of the current state of scholarly debate and an argument about the future direction of research in this dynamic and interdisciplinary field. The structure of the Handbook is animated by an overarching collective narrative about how law and anthropology have and should relate to each other as intersecting domains of inquiry that address such fundamental questions as dispute resolution, normative ordering, social organization, and legal, political, and social identity. The need for such a comprehensive project has become even more pressing as lawyers and anthropologists work together in an ever-increasing number of areas, including immigration and asylum processes, international justice forums, cultural heritage certification and monitoring, and the writing of new national constitutions, among many others. The Handbook takes critical stock of these various points of intersection in order to identify and conceptualize the most promising areas of innovation and sociolegal relevance, as well as to acknowledge the points of tension, open questions, and areas for future development.