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Margaret Jane Radin

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Margaret Jane Radin · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Property theorist; developed the concepts of property-and-personhood and market-inalienability

When

1941, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Margaret Jane Radin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Property theorist; developed the concepts of property-and-personhood and market-inalienability

How & why

Radin is an American legal scholar, Ransom Professor emerita at the University of Michigan, whose theories of property-and-personhood and market-inalienability reshaped debates on which things should not be for sale, as well as on contract in the digital age. She has taught at Stanford, USC, Toronto and Michigan. She is documented among Jewish legal scholars, though mainstream biographical sources give few details of her religious background.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Property theorist; developed the concepts of property-and-personhood and market-inalienability

1941

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence