Property

Hanoch Dagan is the Dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and the founding director of the Zvi Meitar Center of Advanced Legal Studies at TAU. He is also a member of the American Law Institute and of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Professor Dagan wrote Unjust Enrichment: A Study of Private Law and Public Values and The Law and Ethics of Restitution (both with Cambridge University Press) as well as numerous articles on property, restitution, and private law theory. His articles were published in leading legal journals such as Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, California Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and University of Toronto Law Journal.

"Professor Dagan's theory of property is unique and profoundly important. He offers the possibility of a via media between two poles prominent in American property scholarship: the law-and-economics approach and the Aristotelian approach. His book addresses questions that are central to the fundamental controversies in property theory today, and it should be read by anyone even remotely interested in matters of property and the state." --Gregory S. Alexander, A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Cornell University"Professor Dagan's central focus is that property is neither a singular right nor a collection of values. Rather, it is an institution which takes on different forms in different social settings; different in the context of marriage or common interest communities than in commerce or industry, and differently still in the context of copyright. This passionately argued book is full of insights. For anyone interested in property law, property theory, orintellectual property, its careful study will be richly repaid." --Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School"Equal parts sophisticated and sensible, ambitious and precise, this book is an important re-assessment of the debates that define today's study of property. Its discussion is also a meditation-by-example on legal scholarship. Hanoch Dagan's morally sensitive pluralism and careful attention to institutions identify this work as both an essential treatment of property and a model for all normative approaches to the law." --Jedediah Purdy, Professor of Law, Duke Law School"This book is a heartfelt call to a new understanding of what property is and what it does for us. Dagan argues for a clear but nuanced approach that recognizes that property contains multiple institutions and plural values; that property rights vary depending on social context; that property rights change over time as values and circumstances change; and that rights to acquire property are as important as rights to exclude others from what one owns. This bookis a tour de force." --Joseph William Singer, Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

• Prologue: Property and Realism ; Part One: Property ; 1. The Craft of Property ; 2. Exclusion and Inclusion in Property ; 3. From Independence and Interdependence to the Pluralism of Property ; 4. Property and the Public Domain ; Part Two: State ; 5. Takings and Distributive Justice ; 6. Just Compensation, Incentives, and Social Meanings ; 7. Re-Imagining Takings Law ; Part Three: Community ; 8. The Liberal Commons ; 9. Properties of Marriage ; 10. Conflicts in Property