Property Rights and Social Justice

Rachael Walsh is an Assistant Professor in Law at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research is focused on the interface between public and private law in the context of property, with publications in the Modern Law Review, the Law Quarterly Review, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the European Constitutional Law Review, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and leading international edited collections. She is also a co-author of the current edition of the leading treatise on constitutional law in Ireland, Kelly: The Irish Constitution (2018).

'This is an impressive book bringing the often US centered progressive property law debate to an Irish and therefore European context. It contributes an Irish perspective on constitutional property law demonstrating its compatibility with progressive property theory, and also provides us with an important lesson on the constitutionalization of property rights.' Bram Akkermans, Professor of European Private Law and Sustainability, Maastricht European Private Law Institute, Maastricht University

• 1. Progressive Property in Action: Widening the Doctrinal Lens; 2. Understanding Progressive Property: Traits, Themes and Values; 3. Property as Ideology, Individual Right, and Institution; 4. Engaging Constitutional Property Rights; 5. Standards of Review and the Form of Constitutional Property Rights; 6. Adjudicating Fairness: The 'Unjust Attack' Assessment; 7. Security of Possession in a Progressive Constitutional Context; 8. Security of Value in a Progressive Constitutional Context; 9. 'Progressive Property' in Action: Context, Complexity, and the Democratic Mediation of Property Rights and Social Justice.