Introduction; Part 1 Reckoning; Part 2 Resilience; Part 3 Reform; The Social Imaginary; Planetary Flourishing; Communities; Obligations of Property Rights; Reform of Property Law; ConclusionsThis short book argues that our law must be resilient and that we need to rethink how we can reform our law of property so that it allows us to live within our planetary boundaries.The law of property provides the building blocks for our market economy and is a manifestation ofour post French and American Revolution thinking on how we want to organise ourselves. Thatorganisational structure has not always been fair or equal around the world. European propertylaw systems have been exported around the globe, yet outside of Europe things have been possible,such as owning another person (slavery) or extracting wealth from land at all costs. This wasunthinkable on the European continent. These differences have led to an increasingly unequaldivision of property between people, countries and even continents. Some can extract a lot ofwealth and pollute the planet from their property, whilst others have nothing. An unsustainableuse of the planet’s resources where we live outside of our planetary boundaries is the result.This short book argues thatthis is notthe way forward. Ourlaw must be resilientin a transformativemanner and European systems need to accept their role in how this has come to be. Based on that,we need to rethink how we can reform our law of property so that it allows us to live within ourplanetary boundaries.About the Author:Bram Akkermans is Professor of Property Law at Maastricht University. He specialises insustainability and property law and combines property theory with property doctrine to explorehow property law can accommodate sustainability. He is also Director of Studies of Dutch-languageundergraduate programmes at the Maastricht Law Faculty.About the Maastricht Law Series: Created in 2018 by Boom juridisch and Eleven InternationalPublishing in association with the Maastricht University Faculty of Law, the Maastricht Law Seriespublishes books on comparative, European and International law. The series builds upon thetradition of excellence in research at the Maastricht Faculty of Law, its research centers and theIus Commune Research School. The Maastricht Law Series is a peer reviewed book series thatallows researchers an excellent opportunity to showcase their work.