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content with ages 14-19, and a few with anywhere from 12-21. But, outside of these limits, again we could validly question any age as being compatible with the NAP. Query: why would an owner of the ocean have the right to provide a definitive ruling? If a crime is committed in someone’s back garden, does this give him, rather than a court, the right to rule on the case? Yes, indeedy do, would be the response of the libertarian: The owner gets to decide the rules in his domain. Every man’s home is his castle. Private property rights are sacrosanct. Now, there are of course limitations. No one can invite you to his back garden, murder you, and claim that in his property he is allowed to shoot anyone who displeases him. However, he may do precisely that, provide only that he clearly warns people of the special rules that prevail in his justly owned territory. Consider ‘murder park’ in this regard. I open a new kind of amusement park. It has 20-foot thick walls so that no bullets can pierce them. I issue a gun and six bullets to all clients, and tell them they may shoot each other for the next 50 minutes, when a bell will ring. Then, no shooting is allowed. I cart out the dead bodies, issue new bullets to those who wish to remain, and introduce new shooters during the next ten minutes. After that two bells ring, and we have our next free for all. Would such an emporium be legal in the libertarian society? Of course it would. And no heir of any of those killed (not murdered) in the melee would have the right to sue for wrongful death.

in the 20 th century, with the possible exception of Japan, substantial constraints on the executive also came after economic development (Korea, Taiwan) or did not institutionalize at all (China, Russia, Singapore, Hong Kong). These results have large implications for current development practice and research. The vast majority of current growth theory assumes that the fundamental challenge for today’s developing countries is to more effectively tie the hands of the Leviathan, so to avoid the state executive branch from retarding the allocation of resources brought forward by private agents through the market mechanism. Accordingly, the focus in much of contemporary de- velopment economics is on how to increase private property rights security in the developing world. The results reported in this paper question this theoretical focus and suggest that future research would benefit from also including more systematically other dimensions of (state) institutions and policies, some of which might be related to the violation of the indi- vidual right to fully autonomously allocate scarce resources, such as the provision of public goods and the implementation of industrial policy. On the policy side many countries have democratized and have managed to introduce substantially more constraints on their exec- utive from the 1980s onwards. Although this is clearly an important human achievement, this has not led to higher economic growth rates. In fact, economic growth rates around the world, as well as in the developing world, were substantially higher in the period with

Property right is a bundle of rights that are relevant for the use of re- sources, including access, withdrawal, management, exclusion and alienation. These elements of rights can be separately assigned to different individuals as well as being viewed as a cumulative scale moving from the minimal right of access through possessing full ownership rights (Ostrom, 2000). Ideally, property rights can be divided into four categories: private, common, state and open access. Real-world property regimes inevitably combine features from various ownership categories (see Feeny et al. 1996 and Cole 2000, for example). Confusions rise up even for scholars of legal and economics. But generally, definition and enforceability of private property rights both should be considered when measuring the intensity of PPR protection. Area 2 Legal System and Property Rights in EFW dataset 4 is chosen as the index of PPR protection in the following empirical analysis. There are nine sub-index in- cluding judicial independence, impartial courts, protection of property rights, military interference in rule of law and politics, integrity of the legal sys- tem, legal enforcement of contracts, regulatory restrictions on the sale of real property, reliability of police and business costs of crime, so it is a com- prehensive indicator of private property rights protection covering both the definition and enforceability of PPR .

Conclusion Continued movement towards smart growth in America is imperative if we are to maintain basic fairness with regard to property rights as well as to continue to use land in a way that is sustainable and responsible. While several states have utilized a number of different structures in seeking smart growth, almost all of them have met with unintended consequences and dramatically increased litigation, particularly because political sensitivities around land use decisions run hot in multiple directions. If we are to be successful in achieving enduring smart growth over the long term, it is time to stop half-heartedly choosing from a menu of failed options. Rather, we must devise ways to remove smart growth decisions from local politics, borrow successful smart growth tools from other states, and have the courage to stay the course when we pass responsible land use legislation. We must implement regulation consistently, and even consider the idea of a federal National Land Use Planning Act. More radically, it is time we seriously rethink the nature of private property rights in the U.S. so that all citizens understand that our land use decisions impact everyone else around us. If we fail to take affirmative steps today, our efforts to achieve smart growth will never live up to their name.

Macpherson argues that common property is “the most unadulterated kind of property [because it]...is always the right of the natural individual person.” 136 It must also be the property right that an individual is left with when he is reduced to Baron’s ‘no (private) property’ classification. There is some irony then, that when an individual has no private property rights and thus is most in need of his share of the public benefit of public property, he is most likely to find public property closed to him through regulations which criminalize his lack of private property. Under Macpherson’s understanding of the rights that individuals have to common property, homeless individuals are left open to the accusation that their use of common property is excluding others from using it. Macpherson recognised that the government could regulate common property in a way that would limit the rights of individuals to it, 137 but pointed out that all forms of property and rights in and to property were ultimately justified through reference to “the individual right to life” 138 This justification is a clear echo of the homeless people’s arguments that the City of Victoria’s by-laws infringed their right to life. It does not necessarily solve the problem that upholding homeless people’s right not to be excluded from common property results in the infringement of other citizens’ rights not to be excluded.

Macpherson argues that common property is “the most unadulterated kind of property [because it]...is always the right of the natural individual person.” 136 It must also be the property right that an individual is left with w hen he is reduced to Baron’s ‘no (private) property’ classification. There is some irony then, that when an individual has no private property rights and thus is most in need of his share of the public benefit of public property, he is most likely to find public property closed to him through regulations which criminalize his lack of private property. Under Macpherson’s understanding of the rights that individuals have to common property, homeless individuals are left open to the accusation that their use of common property is excluding others from using it. Macpherson recognised that the government could regulate common property in a way that would limit the rights of individuals to it, 137 but pointed out that all forms of property and rights in and to prope rty were ultimately justified through reference to “the individual right to life” 138 This justification is a clear echo of the homeless people’s arguments that the City of Victoria’s by-laws infringed their right to life. It does not necessarily solve the p roblem that upholding homeless people’s right not to be excluded from common property results in the infringement of other citizens’ rights not to be excluded. SOCIAL RELATIONS AND COMMON PROPERTY

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ernment-owned property and thus this distinction would appear to be good law in Canada. 144 McLachlin CJC’s distinction has also been echoed by lower courts, which further suggests that the government as owner analogy of common property has taken over from the trust analogy. 145 The term “government-owned property” is problematic for a further reason because it suggests that the public’s right of access to “public gov- ernment property” is a burden rather than a defining feature of such property. If we return to Macpherson’s categories of state and common property we can see that the term “government-owned property” collapses common property into state property. Admittedly, the line between state and common property is a thin one given the state’s role in creating and enforcing common property rights: it often acts like an owner. The real difference between the two forms of property lies not in how the state or government dictates their use but in the role that each form of property has to play. The role of common property is essential to the successful functioning of society because it facilitates transport, communication, connectivity, and other similar activities. By comparison, state property’s role is more crucial to the activities of government, such as national secu- rity or taxation. McLachlin CJC’s repeated emphasis on the government’s use of property ignores the role that it has to play and, like the dominant understanding of the bundle of rights theory of property, 146 focuses on the owner rather than on the complex web of interests that surround most pieces of property. The term “government-owned property”, thus, implies the state’s private property rights rather than the public’s rights to com- mon property.

ternational trade and the institutions that provide the legal framework that governs it. B. H ISTORY Internationally, there is no sovereign. The world’s polities ex- ist in a “state of nature.” Thus, there is no formal organization that can define and enforce property rights among individuals from different states who engage in commerce. “In this sense the property rights situation that parties to international com- merce confront is similar to the property rights situation that prospective parties to outer space commerce confront.” 21 If con- ventional wisdom regarding the infeasibility of widespread se- cure private property rights is accurate, then international anarchy should render commerce between subjects of different states extremely difficult and highly uncertain. Instead, we ob- serve international commercial activity as rich, varied, and lucra- tive. Parties to international commercial deals have access to a sophisticated private and voluntary legal system that helps them adjudicate disputes and accurately form expectations of future behavior such that the need for dispute resolution in the first place is low. It would be inaccurate to describe international commerce as an Eden of laissez-faire, but it is far more orderly than the conventional wisdom would suggest.

In this chapter, we will first look at the evolution of rural land rights, from just before the establishment of the People Republic of China to the present day. We will see below that the most recent important rural land reform had started without legal sanction by the central government but was gradually approved and adopted by the government. Another characteristic of rural land reform in China is the trial system where the proposed reform would be tested out in a few counties before being implemented nationwide. The discussion of the evolution rural land rights is followed by the current regulations and practices in relation to rural land. It will be shown that in many instances, practices in reality do not reflect the spirit of the regulations and enforcement is ineffective. The subsequent section then looks at the characteristics of private land use rights and the various restrictions imposed on these rights. One particularly important legislation that will be looked at is the Rural Land Contracting Law 2002, which governs the use of all agricultural land. This piece of legislation explains the relationship between landowners and users, and outlines the rights and obligations of the parties. Private land use rights are further strengthened by a new law, namely the Property Law which came into effect in October 2007. This new legislation signifies a new era for the protection of private property rights, although it does not add anything substantial to the content of the rights itself.

The next two sections are devoted to a discussion of the attributes of common-pool resources that are conducive to communal proprietorship or communal ownership as contrasted to individual ownership. Groups of individuals are considered to share communal property rights when they have formed an organization that exercises at least the collective-choice rights of management and exclusion in relationship to some defined resource system and the resource units produced by that system. In other words, all communal groups have established some means of governing themselves in relationship to a resource (E. Ostrom, 1990). Where communal groups are full owners, members of the group have the further right to sell their access, use, exclusion and management rights to others, subject in many systems to the approval of the other members of the group. Some communal proprietorships are formally organized and recognized by legal authorities as having a corporate existence that entails the right to sue and be sued, the right to hold financial assets in a common bank account, and to make decisions that are binding on members. Other communal proprietorships are less formally organized and may exercise de facto property rights that may or may not be supported by legal authorities if challenged by nonmembers.

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user who posted the videos to insist that YouTube replace them on the webpage. 5 Government action to regulate the content of Internet webpages could tread heavily on the private property interests of website providers 6 such as YouTube. 7 The property problem arises because the Internet, including its webpages, has many characteristics of a public area, like a shopping mall, so a government could exercise its police powers to regulate the content of an Internet webpage even if it is controlled by a private entity. The United States Supreme Court’s holding in PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins 8 is particularly relevant to this problem. There, the Court addressed whether a state could interpret its constitution to protect the dissemination of politically charged pamphlets by high school students in a privately owned shopping mall. 9 Ultimately, the Court found that a state may exercise its police powers to extend its citizens’ civil liberties. 10 The Court’s holding, however, did not necessitate compensation to the mall-owner under the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause 11 because the mall-owner’s reasonable business expectations were not sufficiently affected. 12 The Court’s holding embodies a potential dilemma for website providers: by allowing states to exercise their police powers to regulate private property of a public character, the constitutionally protected property rights of a website provider may be in danger. 13