Property Theory is the work of two distinguished law professors at Cornell University. Its
intention is to introduce undergraduate students in Law to the key theoretical approaches
that underlie the sorts of disputes and adjudications that eventually manifest themselves in
everyday legal disputes. It is a book of two halves. Having essayed what property is and
what a property theory is in the Introduction, in Part I the authors outline five sorts of property
theory: utilitarian, Lockean/libertarian, Hegelian, Kantian and Aristotelian (the latter being …