The Rise and Fall of Property Rights in America

by Adam Mossoff | Jul 4, 2017

Adam Mossoff traces the rise and fall of property rights in America.

In today’s America, our laws do little to protect property owners from either dictators abroad or government bureaucrats at home. How did this come to pass in a country founded on the principle that all men have the inalienable right to life, liberty and property? This lecture by Adam Mossoff answers this question by tracing the rise and fall of property rights in America.

Made available by The Ayn Rand Institute.

Adam Mossoff

Mr. Mossoff is a professor of law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He is a Visiting Intellectual Property Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, a Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. His scholarship has been relied on by the Supreme Court, by federal courts, and by federal agencies, and he has been invited numerous times to testify before the Senate and the House of Representatives on proposed intellectual property legislation. Visit his website at adammossoff.com.