Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Alain Pottage; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Conceptual origins; Chapter 3 Material origins: Nation; Chapter 4 Material origins: Empire; Chapter 5 Conceptual developments; Chapter 6 Placelessness in contemporary practices; Chapter 7 Epilogue: Placing property; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies. Addressing law's relationship to land and natural resources through its property regime, this title engages the abstract philosophy of property law with the material environments of place