Reponse to an article by Gregory S. Alexander, \u27The Social-obligation Norm in American Property Law,\u27 in a Special Issue of the Journal on Property Obligation

Purdy, Jedediah

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A Few Questions About the Social-Obligation Norm

I applaud Gregory Alexander for proposing an innovative view of property, one focused on the obligations of ownership. His project locates what I think of as the liberal aim of personal freedom (meaning both formal autonomy and real opportunity) within a social context of distributive choices and conceptions of mutual obligation. That is, he is asking what counts as a free society, and he is putting property regimes at the center of the answer. I want to set out some questions about where his project goes from here

Purdy, Jedediah S.

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