Property Law in a Globalizing World Global Law Series

Property Law in a Globalizing World identifies the paramount challenges that contemporary processes of globalization pose for the study and practice of property law. It offers a straightforward analysis of legal scenarios implicating cross-border property rights, covering a broad range of resources, from land, goods, and intangible financial assets to intellectual property, data, and digital assets. This is the first scholarly book offering a detailed study of legal strategies that can decrease the gap between the domestic tenets of property law and the cross-border nature of markets, interpersonal networks, and technology. It shows how strategies of soft law, conflict of laws, approximation, and supranationalism rely to various degrees on cross-border property norms and institutions, and studies the proprietary features of security interests and priorities to assets in insolvency in a global setting. It also shows how digital technology such as blockchain can revolutionize the system of cross-border property rights.

Introduction; 1. Why property law needs globalization strategies; 2. Local to global: an institutional analysis; 3. Land; 4. Tangible goods, monetary claims, investment securities; 5. Intellectual property, data, and digital assets; 6. Security interests and proprietary priorities in insolvency.

Amnon Lehavi is Dean and Atara Kaufman Professor of Real Estate at Radzyner Law School, and Academic Director of the Gazit-Globe Real Estate Institute at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel. Lehavi is a leading authority on property, real estate, land use controls, international economic law, and law and globalization. He is author of The Construction of Property: Norms, Institutions, Challenges (Cambridge, 2013) and editor of One Hundred Years of Zoning and the Future of Cities (2017) and Private Communities and Urban Governance: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (2016). Lehavi serves as Co-President of the Law Schools Global League (2018–2020).