Writing for JOTWELL's Property Law section,
Donald Kochan has
high praise for legal historian
Taisu Zhang's "
Cultural Paradigms in Property Institutions," which appeared in volume 41 of the
Yale Journal of International Law (2016). Here's a taste:
To understand the interplay between culture and the law, it is useful
to evaluate historical developments of legal doctrines from a
comparative perspective. That is the eminently valuable project
undertaken by Professor Taisu Zhang in his article, Cultural Paradigms in Property Institutions.
Zhang exposes the sometimes “muted” perspective regarding the strong
cultural influence and sociological concerns in property law’s
development and its theoretical understanding. By comparing and
contrasting his project against many of the other influential
comparative property theory endeavors, Zhang identifies both the
alignments his study has with previous literature but also where his
richer understanding of culture’s role fills gaps or omissions in the
existing body of analysis.
Read on
here.
