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"This book argues that property's structural pluralism and the significance of the right to be included - or, more generally, property's compliance with relational justice - are two necessary pillars of a genuinely liberal conception of property, founded on the ultimate value of personal self-determination. A Liberal Theory of Property returns the analysis to the mainstream twentieth-century political philosophy of liberalism - a tradition enhancing self-determination that is almost absent from property theory today. As such, it offers a coherent and robust vision of property in a liberal society. (I use the terms "liberal" and "liberalism" in their denotation in political philosophy rather than in that common in American or European public discourse, where they are respectively associated - confusingly enough - with the political left and the political right)"--

The realist conception of law -- Between rationality and benevolence : the happy ambivalence of law and legal theory -- The character of legal theory (with Roy Kreitner) -- The limited autonomy of private law -- Legal realism and the taxonomy of private law -- Remedies and rights -- Pluralism and perfectionism in private law -- Private law pluralism and the rule of law

Abstract
Contract is one of the key tools liberal law employs in the service of its core mission of enhancing people's autonomy, and choice theory conceptualizes this task as contract's telos. It thus prescribes three principles – proactive facilitation, regard for the future self, and relational justice – for guiding the legal constitution of contract law in all spheres of human interaction. Spousal contracts are no exception. Thus, the law governing intimate agreements both allows people to adjust the default rules governing their marital estates and provides people off-the-shelf options for structuring their interpersonal interaction as spouses. In turn, the law of marital contracts ensures that free exit from marriage is, as it should be, immutable. Finally, relational justice guides, albeit still imperfectly, both law's normative defaults for marital contracts and the rules that govern premarital, marital, and cohabitation agreements.