ABSTRACT
The law of property is the law of ownership. Relations among individuals and between individuals and the state are structured by legal principles governing ownership. The law structures these relations by defining what sorts of things can and cannot be considered property, and by delimiting what sorts of things can and cannot be done with property as the state has defined it. 1 New technologies have raised difficult questions about the fundamental nature of property and the role governments might play in regulating it. Just as computer technology has raised problems about intellectual property, medical technology has raised problems about biological property that have forced courts and legislatures to address fundamental legal and philosophical concepts.
