First-year Georgetown Law students were taught that the concepts of property rights and “possession” were derived from slavery and racism, according to a lecture obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Professor Madhavi Sunder’s first-year law class included slides that claim property rights are part of “structural racism,” according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon. One slide claims that the history of American property law is rooted in “the history of dispossession and appropriation.”
A separate slide dubbed property ownership as part of a “settler capitalist society” and another claimed modern property ownership is a relic of racism.
“Property ownership often justified on ground of possession,” the slide read. “Possession is a legal term of art for a settler capitalist society.”
“Property and structural racism: Modern property law must contend with its birth in Native dispossession and the enslavement of African Americans, both based on inscribing purported racial difference into law,” another slide read.