Rerum Novarum: New Things and Recent Paradigms of Property Law

Abstract

The two most recent paradigmatic moments in the development of property law were the construction of social property about a hundred years ago and of international property quite recently. This study analyses two important texts as illustrations of these changes: Leo XIII\u27s encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) and John Sprankling\u27s book The International Law of Property (2014). Each text signals a paradigm shift in our understanding of property