Lee Fennell on Rethinking Property
On this episode of Free Range, host Mike Livermore is joined by Lee Fennell, a law professor at the University of Chicago and author of Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life.
Episode is an appropriate teaching tool for but not limited to the following topics & courses: property law, urban planning, zoning and land use, environmental law
Discussion Questions
- How does the idea of absolute ownership conflict with external forces that affect one’s property?
- Why is stability important to homeowners?
- When are private mechanisms more helpful than legal intervention?
Additional Readings
- Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life
- Understanding Property Law
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