Research Catalog

Title

Properties of law : essays in honour of Jim Harris / edited by Timothy Endicott, Joshua Getzler, and Edwin Peel.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Harris, J. W. (James W.), 1940-2004.
• Endicott, Timothy Andrew Orville.
• Getzler, Joshua.
• Peel, Edwin

Description

xxiv, 388 p. : port.; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume comprises essays in law and general theory celebrating the life and work of Jim Harris, reflecting the wide range of Harris' work and the depth of his influence on legal studies.

Subject

• Harris, J. W. 1940-2004
• Law > Philosophy
• Law > Methodology
• Property
• Human rights
• Human Rights
• Ownership

Genre/Form

• Festschriften
• Festschriften.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography of the works of James W. Harris (p. [385]-386).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

J.W. Harris's Kelsen / Stanley L. Paulson -- Interpreting normativity / Julie Dickson -- Reductionism and explanation in legal theory / Brian Bix -- Scepticism and Scandinavian legal realists / Jes Bjarup -- Judges' use of moral arguments in interpreting statutes / Jeremy Horder -- Weak and strong conceptions of property : an essay in memory of Jim Harris / Richard A. Epstein -- Property and ownership : marginal comments / Tony Honoré -- The morality of James Harris's theory of property / David Lametti -- Ownership, co-ownership, and the justification of property rights / James Penner -- Plants, torts, and intellectual property / Stephen R. Munzer -- The legacy of Penn v. Lord Baltimore / Edwin Peel -- Property, personality, and violence / Joshua Getzler -- Towards principles of overruling in a civil law supreme court / Isabelle Rorive -- The rationality of tradition / Lionel Smith -- Judging rights in a democratic South Africa / Hugh Corder -- Invoking human rights / John Eekelaar -- The infant in the snow / Timothy Endicott -- Matter matters / Bernard Rudden -- James W. Harris, 1940-2004 -- Bibliography of the works of James W. Harris.

ISBN

• 0199290962
• 9780199290963 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2006000259

OCLC

• 62872794
• SCSB-10131929

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library