British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
MACCABAEAN LECTURE IN JURISPRUDENCE
Reason or Mumbo Jumbo - the Common Law's Approach to Property
Professor James Harris FBA, Keble College, University of Oxford
4 December 2001
People's property holdings are important to them. Why should they be at the mercy of the arcane terminology of the common law? The lecture will seek an answer to this question by relating traditional doctrines to modern property theory.