Hannah Carrese

Hannah Carrese works on the legal history of property, particularly of common and public land, and on the present and future of laws protecting land, water, and species. She has conducted research addressing these themes in the western United States, England, and Chile. Her current project is an article on the divergence between John Locke’s theory of property, which dismisses common rights to land, and the 17th century common law of property, which centered them. Hannah has also written on political theories regarding refugees, with a focus on Hannah Arendt’s concept of political homelessness. She earned an MPhil in political theory at Oxford and undergraduate and law degrees at Yale, and she clerked for Judge Harris L Hartz on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.