The Colorado Doctrine
Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier
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Schorr David
Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the "appropriation doctrine," a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West. Schorr describes how Colorado miners, irrigators, lawmakers, and judges forged a system of private property in water based on a desire to spread property and its benefits as widely as possible among independent citizens. He demonstrates that ownership was not dictated by concerns for economic efficiency, but by a regard for social justice.
novembre 2012, env. 256 pages, Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference, Anglais
University Presses
978-0-300-13447-6
University Presses
978-0-300-13447-6