File:0040- "Ostrom’s Law- Property Rights in the Commons" by Lee Anne Fennell (2011) - Amicus Lectio (IA amicus lectio 0040).mp3

Elinor Ostrom's work has enhanced legal scholars' understanding of property. Although the richness of these contributions cannot be distilled into a single thesis, their flavor can be captured in a maxim Lee Anne Fennell calls Ostrom's Law: A resource arrangement that works in practice can work in theory. Ostrom's scholarship challenges the conventional wisdom by examining how people interact over resources on the ground. She identifies recurring institutional features associated with long-term success. In this essay, Fennell traced some of the ways that Ostrom's focus on situated examples has advanced interdisciplinary dialogue about property as a legal institution and as a human invention for solving practical problems. Ostrom's scholarship yields insights for, and employs insights from, property theory and, importantly, is very concerned with how these observed systems scale which carries profound implications for law. The conclusion offers some observations about interdisciplinarity as it relates to research on the commons and in scholarship generally. <a href="https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.252/">The Paper.</a>