Yale Law School: Professor Priest on the Foundations of Credit and Property Law
February 03, 2021
February 03, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 3 -- Yale Law School issued the following news release:
In her new book, Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America (Princeton University Press), Professor Claire Priest '00 reveals how the drive to expand credit propelled the creation of new property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the United States. By treating land and slaves as mere commodities, and by creating streamlined institutions protect . . .
In her new book, Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America (Princeton University Press), Professor Claire Priest '00 reveals how the drive to expand credit propelled the creation of new property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the United States. By treating land and slaves as mere commodities, and by creating streamlined institutions protect . . .