Same Base, Different Taste: The Cultural Ingredient in Property Law

Taisu Zhang, Cultural Paradigms in Property Institutions, 41 Yale J. Int’l L. 347 (2016), available at SSRN.

Donald Kochan

Can we bring preferred legal norms to culture, asking culture to adapt, or do we bring culture to the formation of legal norms, asking law to adapt? This is not just a normative question causing consideration of moral or consequentialist choices. It is also an empirical one. Regardless of what we think we ought to do or might want to do, the […]