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Title

Claims of Need in Property Law and Politics.

Authors

Cockburn, Patrick

Abstract

Both courts of law and political theorists have grappled with the problem of giving the concept of 'need' a place in our reasoning about the rights and wrongs of property regimes. But in the U.K., legal changes in the last fifteen years have eroded the legal possibilities for striking some compromise between the claims of the needy and the rights of property owners. Against this backdrop this article compares three theoretical accounts of how the fact of human need should impact upon our thinking about property rights: the rights-based arguments of Jeremy Waldron, the radical democratic theory of Lawrence Hamilton and the anarchist commentary of Colin Ward. While 'theories' of need have paid much attention to the nature of need 'itself', the article argues that this comparison reveals another issue that is just as important: where and how should claims of need be registered in legal and political processes?.

Subjects

PROPERTY; PRACTICAL politics; DIRECT action; LEGAL settlement; DEMOCRACY

Publication

Theoria: A Journal of Social & Political Theory, 2016, Vol 63, Issue 146, p56

ISSN

0040-5817

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.3167/th.2015.6314604

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