One distinctive feature of “The Backdrop of the New Legal Institutions” and “Right of Property and the Law of Theft” (see Powerpoint slides) is Tigar’s tracing of legal ideas or principles that appear in one society or civilization and are later revived in a future society or civilization, if for somewhat different purposes than the original social context in which they were originally
developed. Describe and briefly analyze an example where Tigar takes the same genealogical approach — i.e. tracking the history of a legal concept, its initial appearance and its later resuscitation in a new context — in any of the following assigned readings: “Recasting the Law of Real Property,” “Contract: A Study of Law and Social Reality,” “The Development of Legal Ideology,” or “Leading Schools of Legal Thought”. Write no fewer than 200 and no more than 300 words in total.
