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Use hand-coded data on nearly 300 dimensions on the substance of property law in 156 jurisdictions in the world.
Sommario
Introduction; Part I. Foundation: 1. Property Law around the World: An Empirical Overview; 2. Economic Framework; 3. Limited Number of Limited Property Rights: Less is More; 4. Transfer of Ownership: Transaction Cost v. Information Cost; Part II. Immovable Property: 5. Acquisitive Prescription: Hardly Justified in Modern, Developed Countries; 6. Building Encroachment: In Search of an Efficiency Justification; 7. Co-ownership Partition: Proposing a New Auction-based Design; 8. Managing Co-ownership: Tragedy of the Common-Ownership? 9. Access to Landlocked Land: Hybrid Entitlement Protection; Part III. Movable Property: 10. Good-faith Purchaser: Proposing Fractional Ownership and Internal Auction; 11. Finders, Keepers: A Minority Rule; 12. The Specificatio Doctrine: Do What the Romans Did; 13. The Accessio Doctrine: No Sign of Convergence.
Info autore
Yun-chien Chang is the Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law, Cornell Law School. Professor Chang works on property law, comparative law, economic analysis of law, and empirical legal studies and has published more than 10 books and 100 articles and book chapters in English and Chinese. Professor Chang is an Associate Reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of Property, President of the Asian Law and Economics Association (2023–2024), and a director of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies.
Riassunto
The book builds on hand-coded data on nearly 300 dimensions on the substance of property law in 156 jurisdictions globally and applies plain-language economic analysis to real-world legal schemes. Cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and statistical analysis are applied. Detailed citations to laws in each jurisdiction are useful to lawyers.
