Legal History

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The Judicial Invention of Property Norms: Ellickson’s Whalemen Revisited, ExpressO (2011)

Robert C. Ellickson has argued that whalemen developed norms to settle arguments over contested whales....

 

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Fast-Fish, Loose-Fish: How Whalemen, Lawyers, and Judges Created the British Property Law of Whaling, ExpressO (2009)

Anglo-American whalemen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used customs largely of their own creation...

 

Property-Personal and Real

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The Judicial Invention of Property Norms: Ellickson’s Whalemen Revisited, ExpressO (2011)

Robert C. Ellickson has argued that whalemen developed norms to settle arguments over contested whales....

 

PDF

Fast-Fish, Loose-Fish: How Whalemen, Lawyers, and Judges Created the British Property Law of Whaling, ExpressO (2009)

Anglo-American whalemen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used customs largely of their own creation...