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Michael Heller and The Theory of Property




By Sébastien ODDOS member of a.d.c.i. - Date : 2010-04-01 - Country : ETATS-UNIS - Subject : Books & Reviews - IP Field : Intellectual Property


 Today, I attended a lecture at Columbia Law School given by Michael Heller, one of the the leading scholars in the field of property theories.

The lecture's topic was 'Property law and civil rights'. Professor Heller focused on how property can be used as an exclusion mechanism. Reminding us that some human beings used to be properties in the time of slavery, he went on to explain how the theory of eminent domain can still be used nowadays to exclude certain categories of people. He also touched upon the appropriation of certain genes or parts of our bodies under property laws.

As a sound understanding of property mechanisms is highly relevant to IP [...]

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