Christopher Lewis & Adaner Usmani, The Libertarian Case Against Property, 45 Law and Philosophy 181 (2025).
Abstract: In this paper, we argue that right-libertarianism implies astronomically large reparations for historical injustice, undermining the existing distribution of property into perpetuity. We defend and operationalize what we call the “quasi-trustee” model of reparations under right-libertarianism. By our downwardly biased estimates, the injustice of American slavery alone calls the entire stock of global wealth into question.