This book explores the challenge that the commons present to the private-public dichotomy in a wide variety of national legal systems representing the West European legal tradition as well as post-socialist and post-colonial experiences. It presents national reports from 13 jurisdictions, ranging from Belgium and the South Africa to the US. Constituting the outcome of the 20th General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2018, it offers a valuable and unique resource for the study of comparative law.

Alessandra Quarta is Associate Professor of Private Law at the University of Turin and coordinator of the H2020 Project Generative European Commons Living Lab.  Her main research interests focus on property law, the commons, contract law and law and technology.

Ryan J Fisher is a PhD student in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Sociology, a Juris Doctor from UC Hastings College of the Law. Fisher writes about application of Marxian dialectics to rebellious lawyering, climate crisis, housing crisis, and short fiction of James Baldwin. He has edited books and articles on Marxist theory, dialectics, international law, comparative law, and communology.