Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Wily Quadruped Meets a Saucy Intruder: How Life and Law Intersect
- 2 Controls on Urban Tree Removal in South Australia: an Example of Restricting Property Rights for the Greater Community Benefit
- 3 A Role for International Law in Achieving a Gender Aware Energy Policy
- 4 Energy Efficiency and Rental Accomodation: Dealing with Split Incentives
- 5 Renewable Energy in the Context of Climate Change and Global Energy Resources
- 6 A Biography of Land, Law and Place
- 7 Adrian Bradbrook and Residential Tenancy Reform
- 8 Sustainable Transport: Trends, Issues and Perspectives for International Co-operation in the Implementation of Rio+20 Decisions
- 9 Adrian J Bradbrook's Contributions to the Laws Governing Energy, Climate Change and Poverty Alleviation
- 10 International Energy Law: an Emerging Academic Discipline
- 11 Property Law and Energy Law: One Academic's Perspective
- Adrian J Bradbrook — A Selected Bibliography
- Table of Cases and Legislation
- Selected Index
1 - The Wily Quadruped Meets a Saucy Intruder: How Life and Law Intersect
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Wily Quadruped Meets a Saucy Intruder: How Life and Law Intersect
- 2 Controls on Urban Tree Removal in South Australia: an Example of Restricting Property Rights for the Greater Community Benefit
- 3 A Role for International Law in Achieving a Gender Aware Energy Policy
- 4 Energy Efficiency and Rental Accomodation: Dealing with Split Incentives
- 5 Renewable Energy in the Context of Climate Change and Global Energy Resources
- 6 A Biography of Land, Law and Place
- 7 Adrian Bradbrook and Residential Tenancy Reform
- 8 Sustainable Transport: Trends, Issues and Perspectives for International Co-operation in the Implementation of Rio+20 Decisions
- 9 Adrian J Bradbrook's Contributions to the Laws Governing Energy, Climate Change and Poverty Alleviation
- 10 International Energy Law: an Emerging Academic Discipline
- 11 Property Law and Energy Law: One Academic's Perspective
- Adrian J Bradbrook — A Selected Bibliography
- Table of Cases and Legislation
- Selected Index
Summary
I Setting the Scene:Pierson vPost, the Wily Quadruped, a Saucy Intruder, and Capture
Speaking at his retirement dinner on 26 October 2011, I suggested that I was perhaps not the right person to comment upon Adrian Bradbrook's long and distinguished career. My overriding concern then, as now, was simple: how to capture the essence of such a remarkable career; the work of someone who has contributed so much to scholarship, so much to the law, so much to an institution. Fittingly, I thought, it was a property case — Pierson v Post (‘Pierson’) — that best summarised my feelings about the task.
A case about the legal concept of capture, decided by the New York State Supreme Court of Judicature in 1805, Pierson involved a fox hunt, and, more specifically, property in a fox. My analogy is certainly not to the activity of the hunt itself, which most today would agree is a barbaric one. It is to the facts, or more specifically, the way in which they were related in the dissenting judgment of Livingston J. Justice Livingston, having made this decision in 1805, wrote with a slightly greater flare for the dramatic than we find in judicial writing today. He wrote that the case
reduces the controversy to a single question.
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- Law as ChangeEngaging with the Life and Scholarship of Adrian Bradbrook, pp. 1 - 22Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2014