Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290340.009
Abstract
Time plays a key role in this book. The last two chapters discussed two reasons why time matters to the life of property: over time, owners effect voluntary changes to property in order to carry out their life plans and the state imposes involuntary changes (from the individual owner’s perspective) in response to changing circumstances, shifting needs and wants, and revised public goals. For the state to function – and to remain justified on liberal principles – the government must have this ability to adjust ownership. However, state-initiated transitions to ownership – implemented through governments’ police and takings powers – are potentially devastating to the owners’ ability to be the authors of their own lives.
Disciplines
Law | Property Law and Real Estate
Recommended Citation
Michael A. Heller,
Property Transitions,
A Liberal Theory of Property, Hanoch Dagan, Cambridge University Press
(2021).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4314
Comments
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