Marrese demonstrates noblewomen's expanding rights in the eighteenth century on the basis of an array of archival and printed sources, including laws, court cases, and memoirs, and shows how this expansion formed part of a larger progressive agenda: the protection of private pro…
The rule of law and the measure of property
by Waldron, Jeremy J.,, jurist
fromHamlyn lectures
This book addresses challenges that new technologies and the big data revolution pose to existing regulatory and legal frameworks. The volume discusses issues such as blockchain and its implications for property transactions and taxes, three (or four) dimensional title registrat…
What law is can be determined by the character of the institutions that make, interpret and enforce law. The interaction of these institutions moulds the supply of, and demand for, law. Focusing on this interaction in the context of US property rights law and the debates about p…
What law is can be determined by the character of the institutions that make, interpret and enforce law. The interaction of these institutions moulds the supply of, and demand for, law. Focusing on this interaction in the context of US property rights law and the debates about p…
Since 1991, Robert Barro has been a lively contributor to the "Wall Street Journal" and other popular financial media. "Getting It Right" brings together, updates, and expands upon these writings that showcases Barro's agility in applying economic understanding to a wide array o…
This book contains a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the tenth biennial Modern Studies in Property Law conference held at the University of Liverpool in April 2014. It is the 8th volume to be published under the name of the conference. The conference and its publ…
These papers were presented at the third biennial conference of the Centre for Property Law at the U. of Reading in the UK, where the editor teaches law, held in March 2000. The contributors are mainly from England, but Poland, Germany, South Africa, Australia, and Italy are als…
The authors describe the disjuncture between rights and actual ownership for women in Latin America, especially in rural areas. In this twelve-country comparative study the authors argue that property ownership is directly related to women's bargaining power within the household…
It has become a commonplace that there has been an information revolution, transforming both society and the economy. In 1995 the Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement aimed to harmonise protection for property in knowledge throughout the global system. This book…
"This volume considers the political construction of intellectual property, and how it is linked to the economics of knowledge and information in the contemporary global political economy. A Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights examines contemporary disputes …