Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
8-7-2015
SSRN Discipline
LSN Subject Matter eJournals; ERN Subject Matter eJournals; Economics Research Network; Legal Scholarship Network; PRN Subject Matter eJournals; Microeconomic Theory eJournals; Philosophy Research Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; Law & Society: Private Law eJournals; AARN Subject Matter eJournals; Humanities Network; Political Science Network; Anthropology & Archaeology Research Network
Abstract
ReIntegrating Spaces is part of a symposium on progressive property held at Savannah Law School as part of the rededication of their building which was constructed in the early nineteenth century and used as a hospital for much of its existenceThe essay uses the buildings long history as a guide for exploring the history of property rights and race in Georgia and the United States It emphasizes that while the central tendency of property is about exclusion and control as Georgias history with slavery Native American removal and Jim Crow demonstrate Yet it points out that sometimes the protection of property rights benefits racial minorities And it also discusses the long history of the critique of such robust property rights This lead to discussion of some of the instances where other elements of common law property and statutory rights help to shift away from the right of exclusion and control
Recommended Citation
Alfred L. Brophy,
Re-Integrating Spaces: The Possibilities of Common Law Property,
(2015).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/379