Texas A&M Journal of Property Law Symposium

The Making of Modern Property Law

Friday, February 7, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Texas A&M University School of Law
1515 Commerce Street, Fort Worth, Texas, 76102
Free, Registration required
3.50 CLE credit hours
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The Spring 2025 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law Symposium will be a focused discussion of Professor Anna di Robilant's book "The Making of Modern Property: Reinventing Roman Law in Europe and its Peripheries 1789-1950" (Cambridge University Press 2023).

The publication discusses the appropriation of Roman property law by liberal nineteenth-century jurists to fit the purposes of modern Europe. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, many of which have never been translated into English, di Robilant outlines how a broad network of European jurists reinvented the classical Roman concept of property to support the process of modernization. By placing this intellectual project within its historical context, she shows how changing class relations, economic policies and developing ideologies converged to produce the basis of modern property law. Bringing these developments to the twentieth century, this book demonstrates how this largely fabricated version of Roman property law shaped and continues to shape debates concerning economic growth, sustainability, and democratic participation.

• Author Anna di Robilant, Boston University School of Law, Professor of Law
• Fernando Atria, Universidad de Chile, Professor
• Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Northeastern University School of Law, Professor of Law
• Ugo Mattei, UC San Francisco School of Law, Emeritus Alfred & Hanna Fromm Distinguished Professor
• Talha Syed, UC Berkeley School of Law, Lecturer
• Laura Underkuffler, Cornell Law School, J. DuPratt White Professor of Law
• Lua Kamál Yuille, Northeastern University School of Law, Professor of Law and Business

The Texas A&M Journal of Property Law has a proud tradition of presenting a book-centered symposium each year, inviting legal scholars from around the world to join us in an in-depth critical discussion of the topics addressed by the authors in their works. Post-symposium, the scholars/speakers that attended write articles that dive deeper into their thoughts and opinions voiced at the Symposium. The author(s) of the book(s) featured will often write their own article responding to the thoughts of the participants. All of these articles will then be published in the next year's Texas A&M Journal of Property Law Symposium issue.

CLE information:

• This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 3.50 credit hours, of which 0 credit hours will apply to legal ethics/professional responsibility credit.
• Texas A&M School of Law, as the CLE sponsor, will submit CLE attendance to the State Bar of Texas by February 28, 2025 for all verified attendees (in-person or online) who are members of the State Bar of Texas and provided their valid Texas Bar Card Number at registration.