Destabilized Property
Property Law in the Sharing Economy

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This book studies the rise of access over ownership and the sharing economy's challenges to the liberal vision of property.

Language: English
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The sharing economy challenges contemporary property law. Does the rise of access render our conception of property obsolete? What are the normative and theoretical implications of choosing casual short-term use of property over stable use? What are the relational and social complications of blurring the line between personal and commercial use of property? The book develops a novel conceptualization of property in the age of the sharing economy. It argues that the sharing economy pushes for a mobile and flexible vision of engaging with possessions and, as a result, with other people. Property's role as a source of permanence and a facilitator of stable, long-term relationships is gradually decreasing in importance. The book offers a broad theoretical and normative framework for understanding the changing landscape of property, provides an institutional analysis of the phenomenon, discusses the social, communal, and relational implications of these changes, and offers guidelines for law reform.
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Stability and property use; 3. The decline of stability in the new millennium; 4. The rise of the access economy; 5. Access as an alternative to ownership; 6. Fragmentation of intimate property; 7. Evaluating flexibility in property use; 8. What's next? The future of the access economy; 9. Conclusion.
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy is an Associate Professor of Law (Senior Lecturer) and the head of the visiting scholar program at the College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel. She holds an LL. B. (2004) and a Ph.D. (2009) from Tel Aviv University law school and has clerked for Israel's Supreme Court Chief Justice, Aharon Barak (2003–2004). She served as the President of the Israeli Association of Private Law and was the recipient of the Zeltner Award for Young Promising Scholars (2016). She has taught at Cornell Law School and served as a Visiting Scholar or Researcher at Yale University, Connecticut, Harvard University, Massachusetts, and Emory University, Atlanta.