Doctoral Dissertation Research: Property, Law, and Markets

博士论文研究：财产、法律和市场

• 批准号: 1627793
• 负责人: William Maurer
• 金额: $ 1.98万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1627793&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Property; Law

This project examines how markets in a post-financial crisis economy are remade through legal interventions and how, when mortgages are the key object for intervening, local understandings of property impact those interventions. The project focuses on property repossessions, examining, in particular, the role of local courts. Courts are a key local stage where new property relations are contested and authorized. While lenders may take courts for granted as rubber stamps for repossessions, judges and registrars may hesitate to repossess homes. Exploring emerging practices and theories of law and economy in the context of property repossessions, the research asks how formal legal institutions and players define property, property rights, and legal responsibility. The project also examines lay understandings of property, asking how homeowners and business owners define property and respond to repossessions. In addition to advancing knowledge on the interplay between law, markets, courts, and the economy, this project has broader impacts that include graduate student training.The rural Irish border region serves as the site for the research project. The Irish border counties, where formal law and markets have often had to coexist with significant shadow organizations and economies, have become a dynamic area where North American hedge fund investors have bought thousands of defaulting mortgages from Ireland?s weakened financial institutions, and where rural homeowners contest them in the courts with defenses that appeal to "sovereign citizen" discourse. The research will use ethnographic field methods of participant observation, direct observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to analyze how the economic recovery practically unwinds at the local level and in the context of bureaucratic registration, court proceedings, and actual repossessions.

该项目研究了金融危机后经济中的市场如何通过法律干预进行重塑，以及当抵押贷款成为干预的主要对象时，当地对房地产的理解如何影响这些干预措施。该项目的重点是财产收回，特别是审查地方法院的作用。 法院是地方的重要舞台，新的财产关系在此得到争议和授权。 虽然贷款人可能会认为法院理所当然地认为收回房屋是橡皮图章，但法官和登记员可能会犹豫是否收回房屋。 该研究探讨了财产收回背景下法律和经济的新兴实践和理论，询问正式的法律机构和参与者如何定义财产、产权和法律责任。该项目还探讨了人们对财产的理解，询问房主和企业主如何定义财产并对收回财产做出反应。 除了增进对法律、市场、法院和经济之间相互作用的了解之外，该项目还具有更广泛的影响，包括研究生培训。爱尔兰边境农村地区是该研究项目的所在地。 爱尔兰边境各县的正式法律和市场往往不得不与重要的影子组织和经济体共存，但这些县已成为一个充满活力的地区，北美对冲基金投资者从爱尔兰薄弱的金融机构购买了数千笔违约抵押贷款，而农村地区的农村地区也成为了一个活跃的地区。房主们在法庭上以诉诸“主权公民”话语的辩护方式对它们进行抗辩。该研究将使用参与观察、直接观察、半结构化访谈和档案研究等人种学实地方法来分析经济复苏如何在地方层面以及在官僚登记、法院诉讼和实际收回的背景下实际展开。