Peter Gerhart: Remembering a Scholar and a Friend to All

Peter Gerhart, a friend to all of us and a longtime professor and former dean at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, passed away on February 7, 2021. To honor his memory and the many contributions he made to property law, we highlight this 2015 symposium, hosted by the Texas A&M University Journal of Property Law, on his book Property Law and Social Morality (Cambridge University Press 2013):

Kristen Barnes, Recognition and Reflection

Eric R. Claeys, On Corrective Justice and Rights in Property: A Comment on Property Law and Social Morality

Dave Fagundes, Property, Morality, and Moral Psychology: Comments on Gerhart’s Property Law and Social Morality

Blake Hudson, Moral Obligation and Natural Capital Commons on Private Land: Perspectives on Peter Gerhart’s Property Law and Social Morality

Kali Murray, What is Owed: Obligation’s Relevance in Property and Intellectual Property Theory

Christopher Serkin, From Social Recognition of Property to Political Recognition by the State: Peter Gerhart’s Property Law and Social Morality and the Evolution of Positive Rights

Laura S. Underkuffler, A Moral Theory of Property

Response: Peter M. Gerhart, Reflections an Property as a Social Good