Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property

Joseph William Singer

Published by Yale University Press 2000

Entitlement

The Paradoxes of Property

Joseph William Singer

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300128543

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In this important work of legal, political, and moral theory, Joseph William Singer offers a controversial new view of property and the entitlements and obligations of its owners. Singer argues against the conventional understanding that owners have the right to control their property as they see fit, with few limitations by government. Instead, property should be understood as a mode of organizing social relations, he says, and he explains the potent consequences of this idea.

Singer focuses on the ways in which property law reflects and shapes social relationships. He contends that property is a matter not of right but of entitlementand entitlement, in Singer’s work, is a complex accommodation of mutual claims. Property requires regulationproperty is a system and not just an individual entitlement, and the system must support a form of social life that spreads wealth, promotes liberty, avoids undue concentration of power, and furthers justice. The author argues that owners have not only rights but obligations as wellto other owners, to nonowners, and to the community as a whole. Those obligations ensure that property rights function to shape social relationships in ways that are both just and defensible.

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Joseph William Singer is professor of law at Harvard Law School.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Paradoxes of Property Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. From Title to Entitlement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Chapter 3. Property and Social Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 4. Systemic and Distributive Norms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter 5. Reparation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Chapter 6. Expectations and Obligations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
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Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 256

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Published: November 10, 2000
ISBN: 9780300128543