Doctoral Dissertation Research: Property, Law, and Markets

本项目研究金融危机后经济中的市场如何通过法律的干预进行重塑，以及当抵押贷款成为干预的主要对象时，当地对财产的理解如何影响这些干预。该项目的重点是收回财产，特别是审查地方法院的作用。 法院是一个关键的地方阶段，在那里新的财产关系是有争议的和授权。 虽然贷款人可能认为法院是收回房屋的橡皮图章，但法官和登记员可能对收回房屋犹豫不决。 本研究探讨了在财产收回的背景下法律和经济的新兴实践和理论，询问了正式的法律的机构和参与者如何定义财产、财产权和法律的责任。该项目还研究了对财产的理解，询问房主和企业主如何定义财产和应对收回。 除了推进法律，市场，法院和经济之间的相互作用的知识，该项目具有更广泛的影响，包括研究生培训。农村爱尔兰边境地区作为研究项目的网站。 爱尔兰边境县，在那里正式的法律和市场往往不得不与重大的影子组织和经济共存，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购买了数千笔违约抵押贷款？美国削弱了金融机构，农村房主在法庭上用呼吁“主权公民”话语的辩护来对抗它们。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的民族志领域方法来分析经济复苏如何在地方一级以及官僚登记，法院诉讼和实际收回的背景下实际展开。

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.