Research Agenda for Property Law

Edited by Bram Akkermans, Professor of Property Law, Department of Private Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

• Contents:1 Introduction to Property Law 1Bram Akkermans2 Property and Empirical Comparative Legal Studies 5Yun-chien Chang3 Property Theory 21Amnon Lehavi4 Constitutional Property Law 39Ví›ir Smári Petersen5 Property Law and Economics 55Henry E. Smith6 Resilient Property Theory 75Lorna Fox O’Mahony and Marc L Roark7 Scaling Property Law 89Marc L. Roark and Lorna Fox O’Mahony8 A Research Agenda for Property Law Reform 105Vincent Sagaert9 Papering Over Place: When Land Becomes Asset Class 121Jessica A. Shoemaker10 Property and the Energy Transition 137Björn Hoops11 Sustainable Property Law 153Bram Akkermans12 Property and Regulation: Responding to GlobalChallenges 169Elsabé van der Sijde13 Digital Goods in Property Law 191Alexander Applemans and Benjamin Verheye14 Digital Owners in Property Law 215Alexander Appelmans and Benjamin Verheye15 Rethinking Property Law through Plural Sovereignties 235Sakshi Aravind16 Towards a Research Agenda for Property Law 253Bram Akkermans

‘Professor Akkermans has assembled a brilliant and diverse cast of legal minds whose fascinating and compelling analyses of the contemporary challenges of property law raise hard and urgent questions that stretch beyond the discipline of law. The fundamental complexity and enduring relevance of the field is apparent throughout the collection and open a much-needed space for rethinking and innovating property law.’