Bright-Line Fever: Simple Legal Rules and Complex Property Customs among the Fataluku of East Timor

Daniel Fitzpatrick; Andrew McWilliam

doi:10.1111/lasr.12014

Bright-Line Fever: Simple Legal Rules and Complex Property Customs among the Fataluku of East Timor

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Recent law and economics scholarship has revived a debate on bright-line rules in property theory. Economic analysis asserts a baseline preference for bright-line property rules because of the information costs if "all the world" had to understand a range

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	311-343
Journal	Law and Society Review
Volume	47
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12014
Publication status	Published - 2013

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