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International Workshop on Property: Economic, Legal and Historical Perspectives
Property is one of the most fundamental institutions shaping the legal foundations of social order, the economic logic of relations of production, and the historical trajectory of civilizations. Throughout history, the limits of property, forms of ownership, and the legitimacy of property have constituted a shared field of inquiry for jurists, economists, and historians. Today, digitalization and technological transformation are carrying the concept of property beyond its classical definitions.
This workshop aims to address property not merely as a right, but as a multidimensional institution encompassing economic, legal, and historical aspects, and to open up discussion on the interaction between these three disciplines.
Call For Papers
Participants are invited to contribute within the framework of the following three main themes, though submissions are not limited to them:
- History: Property Regimes from Tradition to Modernity
• The evolution of property in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• The Ottoman experience: miri landholding, land regime, and the waqf institution
• The Industrial Revolution and modern property
• Non-Western property models and historical experiences - Economics: Property, Inequality, and the Market
• Property rights as a driver of capital accumulation
• The impact of property structures on income and wealth inequality
• Alternative economic models: public property, the sharing economy, and commons
• The marketization of knowledge: the economic value of intellectual property in the knowledge economy
• Financial architecture and property
• The digital world and new forms of property - Law: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Future
• Philosophical foundations of property: right, duty, or privilege?
• Legal foundations of the modern property regime and changing approaches
• Expanding domains of the idea of property: intellectual property law, debates on artificial intelligence and data ownership, and platform ownership
• The tension between legal ownership and economic ownership in corporate law
• Scenarios of dispossession and the future of property law
Participation and Submission Details:
• Interdisciplinary Approach: The workshop is open to original contributions from the fields of law, economics, history, sociology, and political science.
• Abstracts: Abstracts of 300–500 words, including the method, scope, and main argument of the paper, should be submitted in both Turkish and English.
• Publication Opportunity: Presented papers will be considered for publication, following a peer-review process, either as book chapters by a prestigious publishing house or in a special issue of an academic journal.
Note: Accommodation and travel support will be provided for a limited number of participants.
Important Dates
• Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 June 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: 1 July 2026
• Workshop Date: 10 October 2026
• Venue: Istanbul
Organizing Committee
• Halil Çonkar
• Fatih Ulu
• M. Bedrettin Toprak
• Süleyman Kaya
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