States and surplus; empires and trade; fiefs and vassals; and the pathologies of bureaucracy.
Love this paper, and the fascinating impact of the Roman law of absolute ownership (cf common law ownership)
Thanks very much for the question in the Zoominar. Made me focus on the why.
So it’s something I always talk about with students, when I teach property law. The common law fragmentation of title cf “dominion.”
I am the outlier. Byzantine Empire is the standard moniker in the scholarship.
You can make bureaucracy work for you, but it’s hard.
Love this paper, and the fascinating impact of the Roman law of absolute ownership (cf common law ownership)
Thanks very much for the question in the Zoominar. Made me focus on the why.
So it’s something I always talk about with students, when I teach property law. The common law fragmentation of title cf “dominion.”
I am the outlier. Byzantine Empire is the standard moniker in the scholarship.
You can make bureaucracy work for you, but it’s hard.