Kristen A. Carpenter
Article
In Defense of Property
118 Yale L.J. 1022 (2009). This Article responds to an emerging view, in scholarship and popular society, that it is normatively undesirable to employ property law as a means of protecting indigenous cultural heritage. Recent critiques suggest that propertizing culture impedes the free flow of ideas, speech, and perhaps culture itself. In our view, these critiques arise largely because commentators...
May 27, 2009