Property law comparative, empirical, and economic analyses

The first book of its kind, Property Law: Comparative, Empirical, and Economic Analyses, uses a unique hand-coded data set on nearly 300 dimensions on the substance of property law in 156 jurisdictions to describe the convergence and divergence of key property doctrines around the world. This book q...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, Yongjian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2023
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Property law around the world : an empirical overview
  • Economic framework
  • Limited number of limited property rights : less is more
  • Transfer of ownership : transaction cost v. information cost
  • Acquisitive prescription : hardly justified in modern, developed countries
  • Building encroachment : in search of an efficiency justification
  • Co-ownership partition : proposing a new auction-based design
  • Managing co-ownership : tragedy of the common-ownership?
  • Access to landlocked land : hybrid entitlement protection
  • Good-faith purchaser : proposing fractional ownership and internal auction
  • Finders, keepers : a minority rule
  • The specificatio doctrine : do what the Romans did
  • The accessio doctrine : no sign of convergence