Volume 21, Number 2
February 2022
ARTICLE

Freedom to Roam

Volume 21, Number 2, February 2022, Pages 209–233
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v21i2.1365
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Abstract

Some European countries legally recognize a “right to roam”—a right to freely traverse across land, even if privately owned. Political philosophers have paid little attention to the right, and have often conceptualized property rights to include strong claim-rights to exclude others. I offer an account of the right to roam, and consider whether it can be philosophically justified on a left-liberal account of property. After finding a defense in terms of the interests served by the right lacking, I suggest that the most promising defense of the right to roam is that it serves as a symbolic reminder of a fundamental type of social equality.
Copyright © 2022 Matthias Brinkmann
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