Fall 2021 Symposium
Natural Property Rights
October 22, 2021
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Online via Zoom
PROFESSOR ERIC CLAEYS
AUTHOR OF NATURAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Eric Claeys is a Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. In his scholarship, Professor Claeys studies theories of natural law and natural rights and their implications in property law.
The symposium offers comments on Professor Eric Claeys manuscript, Natural Property Rights. Professor Claeys’s forthcoming book seeks to clear up misconceptions about natural property rights and provide a new theory of natural property rights for modern readers to consider. The forthcoming book will explain the justification behind natural rights and how natural rights apply in law and practice. To illustrate his theory, Claeys discusses issues concerning water rights, scope-of-ownership doctrines, government powers to regulate and condemn property, and constitutional limits on those government powers.
Commentators:
- Vanessa Casado Pérez, Texas A&M University School of Law
- Adam MacLeod, Faulkner University Jones School of Law
- Loletta Darden, Suffolk University Law School
- Ezra Rosser, American University Washington College of Law
- Kevin Douglas, Michigan State University College of Law
- Timothy Sandefur, The Goldwater Institute, Scalia Law School George Mason University, adjunct affiliation with CATO Institute
- Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Northeastern University School of Law
- Christopher Serkin, Vanderbilt Law School
- James Ely, Vanderbilt Law School
- Lucia Silecchia, The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
- Eric Kades, William & Mary Law School
- Dr. Yael Lifshitz, King's College London
- James Stern, William & Mary Law School
- John Lovett, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
- Talha Syed, University of California Berkeley School of Law