ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to clarify the use and evolution of the concept of property. A legal conception of property as rights gives it some flexibility which, despite difficulties such a conception might create,1 is potentially useful in analysing legal issues arising from modern technology.2 Malleability is an important feature of property which makes its framework suitable for analysis of some aspects of the legal challenges posed by claims relating to dead human bodies, body parts and traditional knowledge.
