A Liberal Theory of Property

Hanoch Dagan is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. Dagan has written seven books across the landscape of core private law topics, including Property: Values and Institutions (2011) and The Choice Theory of Contracts (2017), and has published over eighty articles in major law reviews and journals. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University, Connecticut, Columbia University, New York, the University of Michigan, Cornell University, New York, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Toronto law schools.

• Preface: 1. Liberal property; 2. Some basics; 3. Autonomy and private authority; 4. Property's structural pluralism; 5. Property's relational justice; 6. Making property law; 7. Just markets; 8. Property transitions; 9. Afterword; Notes.

'A Liberal Theory of Property is grand theory at its best. Hanoch Dagan has given us a deep theory that grounds property on the core liberal value of autonomy, more specifically, self-determination. Reciprocal self-determination is the foundation for two main pillars of his theory – structural pluralism and the right to be included. Dagan uses those two pillars to support a sweeping analysis of many property doctrines, ranging from fair housing laws to the numerus clausus principle. This is an enormously important contribution to property law and to liberal theory generally.' Gregory S. Alexander, A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Emeritus, Cornell Law School