Properties of Law

Jim Harris: Fellow & Tutor in Law, Keble College, Oxford from 1973 until his death in 2004. Professor since 1997. Formerly Lecturer at the LSE. A distinguished scholar principally in the fields of philosophy and property, and especially the philosophy of property, he had recently turned his attention to human rights; a topic he was actively working on at his untimely death. His major works include Property & Justice (1996) and Law and Legal Science (1979). He was best known to generations of students for his work Legal Philosophies (1980).

• Foreword ; I ; Legal Theory ; 1. J.W. Harris's Kelsen ; 2. Interpreting Normativity ; 3. Reductionism and Explanation in Legal Theory ; 4. Scepticism and Scandinavian Legal Realists ; 5. Precedent, Morality and Judicial Discretion in Statutory Interpretation ; II ; Property ; 6. Weak and Strong Conceptions of Property ; 7. Property And Ownership ; 8. The Morality of James Harris's Theory of Property ; 9. Ownership, Co-ownership, and the Justification of Property Rights ; 10. Plants, Torts, and Intellectual Property ; 11. The Legacy of Penn v. Lord Baltimore ; 12. Property, Personality, and Violence ; III ; Precedent ; 13. Towards Principles of Overruling in a Civil Law Supreme Court ; 14. The Rationality of Tradition ; IV ; Human Rights ; 15. Judging Rights in a Democratic South Africa ; 16. Invoking Human Rights ; 17. The Infant in the Snow ; 18. Matter Matters ; Bibliography of the Works of Jim Harris