Property Rights: A Re-Examination

James Penner is the Kwa Geok Choo Professor of Property Law at the National University of Singapore. He previously taught at Brunel University, the London School of Economics, King's College London, and University College London. He joined the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore in 2013. He has established himself as one of the world's leading experts in the philosophy of property and the law of trusts, and writes widely in the areas of private law and the philosophy of law. He has been a visiting professor in China, Canada, Belgium, Australia, and the United States.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsPart One: The Complex Structure of Legal Title to Property1: The 'Bundle of Rights' Picture of Property Revisited2: Two Nominalisms: Moral-Political Nominalism and Scientific Reductionist NominalismPart Two: Hohfeldian Analysis and Legal Property Rights3: Hohfeldian Liberties4: The Problems with Powers5: Multital Jural Relations6: The Transmissibility of Rights and the Power to Transfer TitlePart Three: The Form and Justification of Legal Property Rights7: Exclusion, Use and Usability8: The Justification of Property Rights9: Rights in LandA Conclusion of Sorts

Penner's book helpfully provides a conceptual structure by which to take property law - and private law more generally - seriously. The book is also useful for private law scholars.