Journal/Publication Title
University of Toronto Law Journal
Abstract
Property law does not require an introduction. We deal with property on a daily basis by purchasing and hiring goods, selling financial instruments, renting flats, owning clothes, and registering patents. Each one of us owns or possesses some type of property. Law enters the picture to govern the interpersonal relationships between the people in relation to property objects. A work that offers a full-blown global normative account of property law deserves special attention; it is relevant for each one of us. Professor Dagan’s A Liberal Theory of Property (‘LTP’) is indeed such a work.
This review consists of three parts. Part I situates LTP within the general trajectory of Dagan’s scholarship and briefly outlines the main stances of the argument. Part II focuses on an important part of Australia’s personal property law — the law of secured transactions — and contemplates on the relevancy of Dagan’s argument to one of the key polemics within this law. Part III summarises.
Repository Citation
Ezra Rosser,
Book Review: Hanoch Dagan, A Liberal Theory of Property (2021),
U. Toronto L.J.
(2021).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_bkrev/57