Property Law and Economics

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2010
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84720-565-0 (ISBN)

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This study covers property law and property rights, providing a full summary and comprehensive bibliography of the existing law, together with discussion from an economic perspective on the most important aspects of property law.

The discipline of law and economics has earned a reputation for developing plausible and empirically testable theories on the social functions and the impact of legal institutions. Property rights are a field in which this has been very successful. In this book, economic property rights theories are applied to case law in order to examine the practice and solution of real life conflicts. The author examines the economic problems which are dealt with in these cases and evaluate the courts’ decisions from an economic angle.

Cases are examined from across the UK, the US, Germany, Belgium and Canada to allow international comparisons to be made. These comparisons reveal that, regardless of the legal system, many legal issues have similar economic roots and therefore similar models of economic analysis can be applied. The analysis of these cases also shows that the discipline of law and economics is not only successful in developing explanatory models but also useful to generate better considerations and solutions for legal conflicts in individual cases.

This book aims to bridge the gap between the academic and professional literature and demonstrate the benefits of the economic analysis of property rights cases to all those who are interested in law and economics.

Edited by Boudewijn Bouckaert, Professor of Law, University of Ghent, Belgium

Contents:

1. Introduction
Boudewijn Bouckaert

2. Property Rights in Legal History
Kim Hoofs

3. Property Rights: A Comparative View
Sjef van Erp and Bram Akkermans

4. Private and Common Property Rights
Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess

5. Original Assignment of Private Property
Boudewijn Bouckaert

6. Decomposition of Property Rights
Jeffrey Evans Stake

7. Nuisance
Timothy Swanson and Andreas Kontoleon

8. Adverse Possession
Ben Depoorter

9. Title Systems and Recordation of Interests
Boudewijn Bouckaert

10. The Economics of Slavery
Jenny Wahl

11. New Forms of Private Property: Property Rights in Environmental Goods
Daniel H. Cole

12. Security Interests, Creditors’ Priorities, and Bankruptcy
James W. Bowers

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.8.2010
Reihe/Serie	Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Second Edition
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-84720-565-8 / 1847205658
ISBN-13	978-1-84720-565-0 / 9781847205650
Zustand	Neuware