| dc.contributor.author |
Fennell, Lee Anne |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011-03-02T15:48:16Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011-03-02T15:48:16Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2011 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7080 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
"Elinor Ostrom’s work has immeasurably enhanced legal scholars’ understanding of property. Although the richness of these contributions cannot be distilled into a single thesis, their favor can be captured in a maxim I call Ostrom’s Law: 'A resource arrangement that works in practice can work in theory.' Ostrom’s scholarship challenges the conventional wisdom by examining how people interact over resources on the ground--an approach that enables her to identify recurring institutional features associated with long-term success. In this essay, I trace some of the ways that Ostrom’s focus on situated examples has advanced interdisciplinary dialogue about property as a legal institution and as a human invention for solving practical problems. I begin by highlighting the attention to detail that characterizes Ostrom’s methodology. I then examine how Ostrom’s scholarship yields insights for, and employs insights from, property theory. Next, I consider the question of scale, an important focal point of Ostrom’s work, and one that carries profound implications for law. I conclude with some observations about interdisciplinarity as it relates to research on the commons." |
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| dc.language |
English |
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| dc.subject |
anticommons |
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| dc.subject |
commons |
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| dc.subject |
interdisciplinarity |
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| dc.subject |
modeling |
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| dc.subject |
scale |
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| dc.subject |
semicommons |
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| dc.title |
Ostrom’s Law: Property Rights in the Commons |
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| dc.type |
Journal Article |
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| dc.type.published |
published |
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| dc.type.methodology |
Case Study |
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| dc.subject.sector |
General & Multiple Resources |
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| dc.identifier.citationjournal |
International Journal of the Commons |
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| dc.identifier.citationvolume |
5 |
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| dc.identifier.citationpages |
9-27 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationnumber |
1 |
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| dc.identifier.citationmonth |
Feb. |
en_US |