Private Law Theory

James Penner, Property Rights: A Re-Examination, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 256 pp, £84.00. Twenty years ago, James Penner challenged us to rethink then-settled notions of property, like the ‘bundle of rights’ metaphor, and whether property truly has a ‘core’. These intellectual challenges have resonated throughout property scholarship ever since. In his recent book, Property Rights: A Re-Examination (2020), he does it again, reflecting on the past two decades of property scholarship, re-examining some of his own previous stands, and outlining a new set of challenges for private law scholars moving forward …

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Yael R Lifshitz, James Penner, Property Rights: A Re-Examination, Modern Law Review, Volume 85, Issue 5, September 2022, pages 1289-1292. First published: 22 February 2022.