Joseph W. Singer 2000 Law 272 pp. In this important work of legal, political, and moral theory, Joseph William Singer offers a controversial new view of property and the entitlements and obligations of its owners. Singer argues against the conventional understanding that owners have the right to control their property as they see fit, with few limitations by government. Instead, property should be understood as a mode of organizing social relations, he says, and he explains the potent consequences of this idea.
Singer focuses on the ways in which property law reflects and shapes social relationships.
Those obligations ensure that property rights function to shape social relationships in ways that are both just and defensible. Boyle, Duke Law School Joseph William Singer is professor of law at Harvard Law School. In this important work of legal, political, and moral theory, Joseph William Singer offers a controversial new view of property and the entitlements and obligations of its owners. Opposing the conventional view that owners have the right to control their property as they see fit with few limitations by government, Singer argues instead that property should be understood as a mode of organizing social relations. He explains the potent consequences of this idea.