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Property in the sharing economy: paradox, disruption, and institutional design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2024

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Sally Zhu*
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Abstract

This special issue aims to unravel the deeply intertwined dialectics between property and sharing. We do so by examining the paradoxes thrown up as legal forms of property interact with the emergent economic activity of sharing, and investigating how these may be resolved by designing institutional frameworks to better align their values. These paradoxes are sometimes productive, driving property and sharing forward to produce new configurations of use and privilege; sometimes disruptive, as sharing throws new light on how property orders economic and social relations by pushing against the boundaries of established property forms. But they are always revealing.

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Property LawSocio-legal studiesSharing economyMarketing and Digital Economy
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Introductory Essay
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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: Property in the Sharing Economy: Paradox, Disruption, and Institutional Design , December 2024 , pp. 429 - 435
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press

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