Accountability mechanisms are often perceived as the Achilles’ heel of human rights practice. As classic human rights institutions rarely provide adequate guarantees of accountability,
justice actors are increasingly turning to alternative spaces to advance accountability. [...]
Alternative Law Journal, Ahead of Print. This article critically examines theMaking Queensland Safer Act 2024(Qld), situating it within a broader trajectory of punitive youth
justice reforms in Queensland. It argues that the Act reflects a deliberate political strategy of punitive populism, ... [...]
Written by Sebastian Clapp. Russia’s escalating hybrid attacks, including drone incursions, have prompted NATO’s Operation Eastern Sentry and the European Union’s (EU)
plans for a European Drone Wall and Eastern Flank Watch. These initiatives aim to strengthen eastern defences but face disputes over cost, feasibility and strategic [...]
One of Professor Greg Alexander's central contributions to property scholarship is his emphasis on the multiple understandings of private property in the American legal tradition.
Private property, he underscored in Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought 1776-1970, has never been understood by American [...]
Greg Alexander is a towering figure in the legal academy. His work, over a period of forty years, has illuminated the most fundamental issues in property law and theory. It
has transformed the field and inspired scholars in the United States and abroad. [...]
Greg Alexander's monumental contributions to our understanding of property and property law are unequaled. He is also a mensch and that comes through loud and clear in his
work. His recent book, Property and Human Flourishing, develops a quasi-Aristotelian theory of property that focuses our attention on the ways property law protects [...]
This Essay explores, and analyzes the long-term effects of, the turn in the 1980s towards a more communitarian-oriented analysis of planned communities. It shows that until
late in the twentieth century property law commentators grounded the rule-making powers of condominiums and homeowners associations in the alleged consent of individual [...]
In the age of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal and sundry other data breaches at Under Armour, Target, and Best Buy, the issue of security and privacy in consumer data
has become increasingly important. For much of the modern era, the development of technology has gone relatively unchecked, with the United States having ceded much [...]
Greg Alexander has made a powerful case that an owner of property in a free and democratic society will be required from time to time to provide resources, in ways appropriate
to that owner, to support the development of other persons' human capabilities. In this essay, I focus attention on legal relationships epitomizing Alexander's human [...]
This Essay explores the dialectic between stability and dynamism in property, inspired by the work of Gregory Alexander. Its focus is inheritance law and the conflicting commitments
between the past and the present. Inheritance contributes an added layer of complexity to the familiar dialectic. [...]
