Professor Hanoch Dagan
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law
"Inside Property"
4:10 pm
Monday, February 13, 2012
Cassels Brock and Blackwell Classroom (B)
Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park Cres.
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Read the article based on the lecture in the University of Toronto Law Journal
Professor Dagan will give a broad overview of the conception of property he has been developing over the last decade. The two main features that distinguish his conception of property from more conventional ones are his emphasis on the internal life of property (on property governance, as he calls it) and its insistence that inclusion – and not only exclusion – is, at times, part and parcel of what property is.
Prof. Hanoch Dagan is the former Dean of the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law (2006-2011) and the founding director of the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies (2007-2011). He is also a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and a member of the American Law Institute and of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Prof. Dagan received an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School (where he held a Fulbright award) after receiving his LL.B. Summa Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University. Prior to becoming Dean he was the Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law and the Editor in Chief of Theoretical Inquiries in Law. He was also a visiting professor and an Affiliated Overseas Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Prof. Dagan has published over forty articles in leading legal journals such as Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, California Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Texas Law Review, University of Toronto Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, American Bankruptcy Law Journal, American Journal of Comparative Law, and Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. Prof. Dagan has also written four books: Unjust Enrichment: A Study of Private Law and Public Values (Cambridge University Press, 1997), The Law and Ethics of Restitution (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Property at a Crossroads (Ramot, 2005) (in Hebrew), and Property: Values and Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is currently working on two new books: Properties of Property (with Gregory S. Alexander) (Aspen, forthcoming 2012), and American Legal Realism Reconsidered (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013). During the Fall of 2011 Professor Dagan will be a Visiting Professor of Law and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Senior Fellow at Yale Law School.
