Property and the Constitution by Janet Mclean
In this set of essays,public lawyers, property lawyers and legal philosophers examine the public dimensions of private property. At a time when governments across the globe are privatising formerly public property, the public forum is being replaced by the privately owned shopping mall, and an increasing range of interests are being described as 'property', an examination of the powers which attach to ownership becomes all the more pressing. The contributors consider whether property is a human right, its role in making responsible citizens, its relationship to freedom of speech and other values, the proper scope of constitutional protections of private property, impediments to the redistribution of property, and attempts to redress historical wrongs by property settlements to indigenous people. Taking a richly comparative perspective, examples have been drawn from jurisdictions as diverse as the United Kingdom, South Africa, Germany, the United States, and New Zealand. Contributors: Janet McLean (ed), Kevin Gray, Susan Francis Gray, Geoffrey Samuel, J W Harris, Gregory Alexander, Andre van der Walt, Tom Allen, Jeremy Waldron, Maurice Goldsmith, Alex Frame, John Dawson, Michael Robertson.
..a fascinating and diverse collection...raises issues of profound importance for Australian public and private law. Simon Evans Federal Law Review September 2002
Janet Mclean is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland,New Zealand.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841130552 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841130559 |
| Title | Property and the Constitution |
| Author | Janet Mclean |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1999-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
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