The Idea of Property: Its Meaning and Power

by Laura S. Underkuffler

This book examines the central issue in property theory, as it intersects with what property is, as an idea, and the power that claimed individual property rights should have against competing public goals. Drawing upon areas as diverse as land use, the body as property, personal information as property, cultural property, and state redistributive claims, the author shows that there are deep reasons for property's protective power, or lack of it, in these and other cases.

206 pages, Hardcover

First published April 10, 2003