The Colorado doctrine [electronic resource] : water rights, corporations, and distributive justice on the American frontier / David Schorr.

9780300189049

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2012.

1 online resource (xiv, 235 p.) : ill.

Description based on print version record.

Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the appropriation doctrine, a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West.

Print version :

English

May 04, 2023

Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Specialized.