
Thomas Linzey on Nature's Rights and Self-Owning Land
Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
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Customary Law and the Commons
I've always been curious about how customary law can be honored while still respecting some of the more positive things we like about liberal jurisprudence. There's a lot of customary practices that are arguably antisocial or inhuman, the kind of bigotry that we saw in the pre-civil rights movement. I'm excited to hear all that because, of course, customary law lies at the heart of the commons as well and has usually been superseded by positive law.
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