The Yale Law Journal

Zachary C.M. Arnold

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Against the Tide: Connecticut Oystering, Hybrid Property, and the Survival of the Commons

Zachary C.M. Arnold

Property theorists hypothesize a trend of evolution toward efficiency and conventionally hold formal privatization out as the logical endpoint of this trend. Oystering, in particular, has often been cited as a context in which privatization is highly efficient. Nonetheless…