Property Rights and Social Justice - Progressive Property in Action

List of contents

1. Progressive Property in Action: Widening the Doctrinal Lens; 2. Understanding Progressive Property: Traits, Themes and Values; 3. Property as Ideology, Individual Right, and Institution; 4. Engaging Constitutional Property Rights; 5. Standards of Review and the Form of Constitutional Property Rights; 6. Adjudicating Fairness: The 'Unjust Attack' Assessment; 7. Security of Possession in a Progressive Constitutional Context; 8. Security of Value in a Progressive Constitutional Context; 9. 'Progressive Property' in Action: Context, Complexity, and the Democratic Mediation of Property Rights and Social Justice.

About the author

Rachael Walsh is an Assistant Professor in Law at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research is focused on the interface between public and private law in the context of property, with publications in the Modern Law Review, the Law Quarterly Review, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the European Constitutional Law Review, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and leading international edited collections. She is also a co-author of the current edition of the leading treatise on constitutional law in Ireland, Kelly: The Irish Constitution (2018).

Summary

The book analyses the function and operation of constitutional property rights guarantees that mediate social justice and private ownership from theoretical and doctrinal perspectives. It draws lessons for the development of 'progressive property' theory from Irish constitutional property law.

Product details

• Authors: Rachael Walsh, Rachael (Trinity College Dublin) Walsh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781108426930
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42693-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Property, LAW / Comparative, Political science & theory, comparative law, Political science and theory, Property law: general, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, property law