Joshua Getzler
Reader in Legal History, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Law, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, and Conjoint Professor of Law, University of New South Wales.

I have benefited from insights and criticisms offered by colleagues at the Cegla Center Community and Property conference in Israel in January 2008, and later at the seminar of the Brunel Law School. Special thanks to Bruce Chapman,
Eric Descheemaeker, Ron Harris, and David Schorr.