http://hdl.handle.net/1893/6512 Electronic copies of Law and Philosophy book reviews. 2026-10-07T18:05:51Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/38359 Title: Cristy Clark and John Page, The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice Author(s): Stewart, Calum Abstract: First paragraph: The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice is a welcome addition to the growing literature on legal geography and a compelling read for anyone interested in issues of land, justice and environment. Authors Cristy Clark and John Page set forth a critical account of private property through the novel lens of the ‘lawful forest’, vivified through a series of historic (and at times contemporary) stories which highlight alternative, ‘other’ histories of property. These stories highlight that the lawful forest is alive, yet hidden from view. Clark and Page argue that this obscurity is far from innocent: it is the result of centuries of violent dispossession, enclosure, colonisation and commodification, all of which have contributed to global crises such as the climate emergency and widespread biodiversity loss and, crucially, which are all enabled by private property. While historiographical storytelling is the key lens of analysis, The Lawful Forest is, at its core, concerned with law – specifically property law. It stresses that questions of who is entitled to be on land, for what reasons and for how long are fundamentally contingent on property law, which is itself undergirded by the totalising and individual logic of private property. This form of property is fundamentally detached from material life, deeply implicating it in ongoing global socio-environmental crises. 2026-05-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37505 Title: The Probability Map of the Universe: Essays on David Albert’s time and Chance, Loewer, Barry; Weslake, Brad & Winsberg, Eric B. (eds.) Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2023, pp. 1-389. Author(s): Robertson, Katie Abstract: First paragraph: We are surrounded by time-asymmetric goings-on: wine glasses smash but never unsmash, there are records and newspapers of yesterday’s events but seemingly none of tomorrow’s, and I can influence tomorrow but not yesterday. For one class of time-asymmetric processes (wine glasses smashing, gases expanding and cups of tea cooling) the hallmark of their asymmetry is that their entropy increases. Different entropies and their behaviour as systems reach equilibrium (states like the coffee being the same temperature as its surroundings) fall within the remit of thermal physics. Yet thermal physics has traditionally been concerned with macroscopic systems, and yet the microscopic processes underpinning these systems are time-symmetric. Where does the asymmetry come from? 2025-02-12T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34927 Title: Chathuni Jayathilaka, Sale and the Implied Warranty of Soundness (Edinburgh Legal Education Trust, 2019) Author(s): Brown, Jonathan Abstract: A review of the 6th volume in the Edinburgh Studies in Scots Law series 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34920 Title: Chathuni Jayathilaka, Sale and the Implied Warranty of Soundness (Edinburgh Legal Education Trust, 2019) Author(s): Brown, Jonathan Abstract: A review of the 6th volume in the Edinburgh Studies in Scots Law series 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z