Dr. Ting Xu is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law, Sheffield University. She is a graduate of Sun Yat-sen University (LLB) and the London School of Economics (LLM & PhD). She is the author of The Revival of Private Property and Its Limits in Post-Mao China (2014), lead-editor (with Jean Allain) of Property and Human Rights in a Global Context (2015), and the author of a number of articles in leading journals, mainly on aspects of the comparative law of property. She is the founder of the 'communal property research network'. Professor Alison Clarke is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Law at the University of Surrey. She is a property lawyer with a particular interest in the social, political and economic effects of different kinds of property rights regimes as they apply to land and other natural resources, and in comparative analysis of property principles. She has written on a variety of property related topics, including the relationship between communal and private property, indigenous land rights, diversification of property forms, custom and long use, and property rights in water.

• Introduction1: Professor Christopher Rodgers: Commons Governance, Normative Pluralism and the Enduring Role of Custom2: Dr Margherita Pieraccini: Taking Stock of Italian Commons: Un-common Grounds?3: Professor Abraham Bell, Professor Gideon Parchomovsky, and Mr Benjamin Weitz: Property in the Kibbutz: Old and New4: Dr Malcolm Combe: Community Rights in Scots Property Law5: Dr Walters Nsoh: The Legal Status of Customary Land Tenure Systems and the Protection of Communal Property in Cameroon6: Professor Juanita Pienaar: Customary Law and Communal Property in South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities7: Dr Ting Xu and Dr Wei Gong: Understanding Collective Property in the Chinese Context through the Lens of Community8: Dr Simone Abram and Professor Sarah Blandy: Ownership and Belonging in Urban Green Space9: Professor Rosalind Malcolm and Professor Alison Clarke: Water: A Common Treasury

Dr. Ting Xu is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law, Sheffield University. She is a graduate of Sun Yat-sen University (LLB) and the London School of Economics (LLM & PhD). She is the author of The Revival of Private Property and Its Limits in Post-Mao China (2014), lead-editor (with Jean Allain) of Property and Human Rights in a Global Context (2015), and the author of a number of articles in leading journals, mainly on aspects of the comparative law of property. She is the founder of the 'communal property research network'. Professor Alison Clarke is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Law at the University of Surrey. She is a property lawyer with a particular interest in the social, political and economic effects of different kinds of property rights regimes as they apply to land and other natural resources, and in comparative analysis of property principles. She has written on a variety of property related topics, including the relationship between communal and private property, indigenous land rights, diversification of property forms, custom and long use, and property rights in water.

• Introduction1: Professor Christopher Rodgers: Commons Governance, Normative Pluralism and the Enduring Role of Custom2: Dr Margherita Pieraccini: Taking Stock of Italian Commons: Un-common Grounds?3: Professor Abraham Bell, Professor Gideon Parchomovsky, and Mr Benjamin Weitz: Property in the Kibbutz: Old and New4: Dr Malcolm Combe: Community Rights in Scots Property Law5: Dr Walters Nsoh: The Legal Status of Customary Land Tenure Systems and the Protection of Communal Property in Cameroon6: Professor Juanita Pienaar: Customary Law and Communal Property in South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities7: Dr Ting Xu and Dr Wei Gong: Understanding Collective Property in the Chinese Context through the Lens of Community8: Dr Simone Abram and Professor Sarah Blandy: Ownership and Belonging in Urban Green Space9: Professor Rosalind Malcolm and Professor Alison Clarke: Water: A Common Treasury

Dr. Ting Xu is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law, Sheffield University. She is a graduate of Sun Yat-sen University (LLB) and the London School of Economics (LLM & PhD). She is the author of The Revival of Private Property and Its Limits in Post-Mao China (2014), lead-editor (with Jean Allain) of Property and Human Rights in a Global Context (2015), and the author of a number of articles in leading journals, mainly on aspects of the comparative law of property. She is the founder of the 'communal property research network'. Professor Alison Clarke is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Law at the University of Surrey. She is a property lawyer with a particular interest in the social, political and economic effects of different kinds of property rights regimes as they apply to land and other natural resources, and in comparative analysis of property principles. She has written on a variety of property related topics, including the relationship between communal and private property, indigenous land rights, diversification of property forms, custom and long use, and property rights in water.

• Introduction1: Professor Christopher Rodgers: Commons Governance, Normative Pluralism and the Enduring Role of Custom2: Dr Margherita Pieraccini: Taking Stock of Italian Commons: Un-common Grounds?3: Professor Abraham Bell, Professor Gideon Parchomovsky, and Mr Benjamin Weitz: Property in the Kibbutz: Old and New4: Dr Malcolm Combe: Community Rights in Scots Property Law5: Dr Walters Nsoh: The Legal Status of Customary Land Tenure Systems and the Protection of Communal Property in Cameroon6: Professor Juanita Pienaar: Customary Law and Communal Property in South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities7: Dr Ting Xu and Dr Wei Gong: Understanding Collective Property in the Chinese Context through the Lens of Community8: Dr Simone Abram and Professor Sarah Blandy: Ownership and Belonging in Urban Green Space9: Professor Rosalind Malcolm and Professor Alison Clarke: Water: A Common Treasury