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The right to personal property

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2016
The subject of this article is the Rawlsian right to personal property. Adequate discussion of this right has long been absent from the literature, and the recent rise in interest in other areas of Rawlsian thought on property makes the issue particularly pertinent.
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Reflections on The Right to Private Property

Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, 2000
Sil nexiste quun seul probleme intellectuel et culturel vraiment serieux concernant le capitalisme, cest celui du manque dune defense morale soutenue et largement connue, pour ne pas dire acceptee, de linstitution des droits de propriete privee.Il ny a pas de doute, dans le monde actuel, quune societe dotee dune infrastructure legale ou cette ...
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Property and the Right to Enter

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
On June 23, 2021, the Supreme Court decided Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, holding that laws that authorize entry to land are takings without regard to duration, impact, or the public interest. The decision runs roughshod over precedent, but it does something more.
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The Human Right to Private Property

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 2015
AbstractFor private property to be legitimately recognized as a universal human right, its meaning should pass the test of self-imposability by an end. In this Essay, we argue, negatively, that the prevailing (libertarian) understanding of private property cannot plausibly meet this demanding standard; and develop, affirmatively, a liberal conception ...
Hanoch Dagan, Avihay Dorfman
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The Right to Die: A Property-Rights-Perspective

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
In this note it is argued that there is a “right to die” and subsequently asked, whether such right can be delegated to the end of assisted suicide. It is a widely and controversially disputed issue. In the discussion medical, ethic and legal perspectives dominate.However, the present contribution is not meant to review and assess the controversial ...
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The Author's Right to Intellectual Property

Diogenes, 2002
Increasingly in certain circles the idea is growing up that ‘intellectual property is theft’. With companies being concentrated into multimedia groups, literary works being captured electronically, products being created for a mass-media culture, commercial exchange on a worldwide scale, the legitimacy of the creator's literary and artistic property is
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Intellectual property rights, human rights and the right to health

2010
The paper analyses tensions between intellectual property rights, human rights and the right to health in four respects. First, it considers whether intellectual property rights are human rights by reappraising, in particular, Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 15(1) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and ...
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The Rights of Man to Property

Reviews in American History, 1999
James Huston's Securing the Fruits of Labor makes the most sense to the reader if begun from appendix B and then read from the beginning. As the appendix illustrates, Huston firmly believes that twentieth-century American classical economists, by focusing on efficiency and growth, have given very short shrift to the problem of a fair distribution of ...
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Local Property Rights to the Commons

2014
We have emphasized the losses of open access attributable to individual efforts to capture resource rents in the absence of property rights. Although it is rational for individuals to ignore their effect on the overall value of an open-access resource, it can also make sense for individuals to act collectively to constrain their actions to protect and ...
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The Human Right to Cultural Property

2011
Article published in the Michigan State International Law Review.
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