A01=David Schorr
Author_David Schorr
Category=LAZ
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- ISBN 9780300134476
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 2012
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the “appropriation doctrine,” a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West. Schorr describes how Colorado miners, irrigators, lawmakers, and judges forged a system of private property in water based on a desire to spread property and its benefits as widely as possible among independent citizens. He demonstrates that ownership was not dictated by concerns for economic efficiency, but by a regard for social justice.
David Schorr is senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University, where he chairs the Law and Environment Program at the Faculty of Law.
