Community Land Trusts: Institutionalizing the Human Flourishing Theory of Property

Authors

John A. Lovett, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Keywords

Community Land Trusts, Human Flourishing Theory, Property ownership

Abstract

Greg Alexander has made a powerful case that an owner of property in a free and democratic society will be required from time to time to provide resources, in ways appropriate to that owner, to support the development of other persons' human capabilities. In this essay, I focus attention on legal relationships epitomizing Alexander's human flourishing theory that owe their genesis in the collaborative work of community activists, who often began their efforts from positions of devout religious conviction, and public-spirited transactional lawyers. The product of that work is the property law institution known as the Community Land Trust (CLT).

Recommended Citation

Lovett, John A. (2020) "Community Land Trusts: Institutionalizing the Human Flourishing Theory of Property," Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy: Vol. 29: Iss. 3, Article 7.
Available at: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cjlpp/vol29/iss3/7