This book is a unique achievement of scholarship. It challenges an extraordinary breadth of orthodox jurisprudence and dogmatic argument, whilst justifying such challenges by formulating a common framework of reference around which the underlying logic of property law across jurisdictions may be rationalised. Property scholars around the world will owe a great debt to the translator for his part in making this work available beyond the German-speaking world. This reviewer will surely not be alone in wondering if and when an English translation of the remainder of the original six-part treatise will also be made available.
Amy Held, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies