The Psychology of Property Law

A deep dive into the way ownership and the law's response to it intersects with human psychology across a range of important contexts. Meticulously researched and conceptually nuanced, this book is an indispensable resource that expertly connects theory and evidence on the psychology of property entitlements with the law and policy surrounding possession, home ownership, takings law, discrimination, redistribution, and more. ~Lee Anne Fennel, Author of The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines, Max Pam Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

An enormous contribution to the fields of property law, law and psychology, and even law more generally.... It has the potential to cause a radical rethinking of property law and policy and thereby to shape the law's effect on countless people's lives. ~John Bronsteen, Georgia Reithal Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Seeks to answer certain open questions of property law with psychological evidence and arguments.... It will be enormously useful for anyone interested in the nexus of these two fields. ~Dave Fagundes, University of Houston Law Center

How the field of psychology can explain, strengthen, or reform the notion of property is the subject of this book. Across eight chapters the authors look at how property ownership is related to theories of human personality and how the law treats different types of property, for example residential property, as more important than other types. ~CHOICE