Hope in Property (or the "Hopefulness" of Property:Special Issue on Hope in Law (2025) LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers: LSE Legal Studies Working Papers

Amodu, Tola (2025) Hope in Property (or the "Hopefulness" of Property:Special Issue on Hope in Law (2025) LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers: LSE Legal Studies Working Papers. LSE legal Studies Working Paper Series (26/2025). pp. 1-12.

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Abstract

Hope is arguably a basis for understanding law broadly defined and has utility in shaping expectations or at least anchoring the ‘not yet’. In this way hope becomes the intercessor between aspiration and realization; one of the accepted functions of the law. Property law broadly defined, remains primarily a response to individual claims. Yet these same property rules – especially those anchored in the common law tradition, have historically been sufficiently malleable to accommodate, ‘a future we can only imagine’ (n 17 below). The paper focuses on whether we might use the construct of hope to (better) understand land law rules in the quest for a more inclusive meaning of property law.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	the architecture of hope in the construction of land law, regulation, renters' rights
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Competition, Markets and Regulation
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	20 May 2026 10:11
Last Modified:	20 May 2026 10:11
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103114
DOI:	10.2139/ssrn.5893083

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