Property and Community

Property and Community fills a major gap in the legal literature on property and its relationship to community. The essays included differ from standard law-and-economics analyses by providing richer accounts of community and examining a variety of social practices that implicate community in its relationship to property. These practices range from more obvious property-based communities like Israeli kibbutzim to surprising examples such as queues. Alexander and Pealver seek to mediate the distance between abstract theory and mundane features of daily life to provide a rich, textured treatment of the relationship between law and community.