Natural Property Rights: A Symposium
Join Scalia Law Professor Eric R. Claeys for an author-meets-readers symposium centered on his new book, Natural Property Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2025). The book introduces a (broadly) Lockean theory of property. Ιt shows how concepts like labor, use, and moral productivity justify property, and it marks off the principled limits that follow from those justifications.
The book will be of interest to lawyers and scholars interested in property and in philosophical justifications for law. The remarks of the symposium participants will be published in an upcoming issue of the George Mason Law Review.
This symposium is co-sponsored by the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.
The symposium participants (clockwise from top left):
- Eric R. Claeys, Author and Symposium Organizer, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University;
- Jessica Asbridge, Associate Professor of Law, Baylor University Law School;
- Jud Campbell, Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School;
- Joseph William Singer, Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School;
- Julia D. Mahoney, John S. Battle Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; and
- Steven F. Hayward, Visiting Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Pepperdine School of Public Policy.
Symposium 2:00–3:45 p.m. EST | Reception 4:00–5:30 p.m. EST
Please RSVP by Monday, November 17th using the button below.