Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
I applaud Gregory Alexander for proposing an innovative view of property, one focused on the obligations of ownership. His project locates what I think of as the liberal aim of personal freedom (meaning both formal autonomy and real opportunity) within a social context of distributive choices and conceptions of mutual obligation. That is, he is asking what counts as a free society, and he is putting property regimes at the center of the answer. I want to set out some questions about where his project goes from here.
Disciplines
Law | Property Law and Real Estate
Recommended Citation
Jedediah S. Purdy,
A Few Questions about the Social-Obligation Norm,
94
Cornell L. Rev.
949
(2009).
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