ABSTRACT
Many authors have attempted in different ways to connect the morality of property rights with the morality of bodily rights. In Chapter 7 of Bound by Convention, David Owens offers a novel and refined version of this justification strategy. Owens’ account advances our understanding of the relationship between property and our bodily rights, and opens up new avenues of inquiry into the nature of both sets of rights. However, I shall argue in this brief note, the old puzzle regarding the mysterious connection that our entitlements over our bodies seem to have with our property rights persists.
Molina, Crescente, Can We Derive Property Rights from Bodily Rights? (January 22, 2025), Jurisprudence (forthcoming, 2025), special issue on David Owens’ Bound by Convention (with a response from Owens).
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