The rapid expansion of the data economy raises serious questions about who “owns” data, and what data “ownership … also fall short when it comes to protecting the facts that make up such compilations. Debates over ownership rights in data … have been heating up. In Europe, policy makers have raised the possibility of creating sui generis ownership rights in data …

In this article, I develop the concept of "ownership piercing." I use the expression to suggest that courts engage in a … process of evaluative reasoning to clarify who owns property rights and controls the limited liability company. I show under … what circumstances courts should pierce ownership. Ownership piercing entails investigating the reality of the company …

Although property lawyers and theorists were always interested in the legal doctrinal construction of property rights … and in political, moral, or economic justifications of property rights through the course of history, they very rarely … looked into possible psychological roots of property rights and the powers they entail. Similarly, psychologists (whether …