Join us for an inspiring and thought-provoking webinar as we discuss Professor Eric Claeys's latest book: Natural Property Rights.

People are entitled to rights to acquire and use property, but those rights need to be ordered consistent with the rights of others and the common good. Principles of natural law can justify civil property rights, they set standards for evaluating those rights, and in the right circumstances they can also fill the gaps left open in property law. Professor Claeys will illustrate in this talk with some old property chestnuts (Pierson v. Post, Ghen v. Rich, and Johnson v. M'Intosh), and two Supreme Court cases from the last decade (Horne v. USDA, and Tyler v. Hennepin County).

Eric Claeys is a Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an Advisor to the Restatement (Fourth) of Property. In his scholarship Professor Claeys has studied the influence of natural law and rights on the law in many areas, and especially in property law. He is the author of Natural Property Rights, published by Cambridge University Press in May 2025.