Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2011
ISSN
0006-8047
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Professor Michael Sandel's theory of justice is attractive and inspirational for lawyers interested in social change. Sandel's call to go beyond egalitarian liberalism has real and important implications for legal and institutional engineering. However, Sandel's theory of justice is parsimonious of recommendations for medium level institutional design. It offers little detailed guidance to private lawyers called upon to design background rules for the allocation of scarce resources and necessary burdens. This essay will discuss how Sandel's theory of justice may help orient the work of lawyers and policymakers interested in a question that is central to recent property debates: the question of the potential of common ownership for social change.
Recommended Citation
Anna di Robilant,
Virtues of Common Ownership
,
in
91
Boston University Law Review
1359
(2011).
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