Colonial Lives of Property w/ Brenna Bhandar
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The History of Private Property Law
The history of private property law is typically conveyed as something more narrowly about England proper. But in many ways these doctrines were developed in the colonies where a colonial state who treats indigenous populations as either less than human or as incapable of owning property privately. In those contexts it became much easier for a colonial government to impose different and more novel forms of land holding.
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