Series: Mindful Law, Mindful World: Property, Possession, and Consumption Via Gandhi's Thought

This piece is an introduction to two Articles that explore the nuanced relationship between property law, the human-environment relationship, and Gandhi’s thought. Gandhi’s thought presents a fundamentally different approach to the relationship between humans and the material world. After reading the narrower focus on property law theory in the first Article, the reader can see in the second Article how Gandhi’s thought applies to a wider view of society, which includes the current economic arrangements of production and consumption. From this standpoint, the reader is free to develop her own view of the connection between law, possession, and renunciation in Gandhi’s thought and its significance to the contemporary world.