Homelessness, Liberty and Property

"This book offers a novel theory about the government's duties to end homelessness, maintain public property's value, and legitimize laws that regulate public space. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--

List of contents

1. Homelessness, vagrancy, and municipal ordinances; 2. Homelessness and the constitution; 3. Homelessness, liberty, and property; 4. Homelessness and the insights of republicanism; 5. Nonegalitarian coercion; 6. Punitive entrenchment; 7. Homelessness, public property, and the state's fiduciary duties; 8. In defense of the state's fiduciary duties; 9. Fulfilling the state's fiduciary duties.

About the author

Terry Skolnik is an Associate Professor of University of Ottawa's Faculty of Civil Law and the Interim Executive Director of the Arizona State University Academy for Justice.

Summary

This book offers a novel theory about the government's duties to end homelessness, maintain public property's value, and legitimize laws that regulate public space. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Skolnik, Terry (University of Ottawa) Skolnik
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9781009392679
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0939267-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, LAW / Property, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law