By contrast, the traditional civil law strategy to property, propounded by Friedrich Carl von Savigny, is that it’s a proper good against the world. Obligations, like contracts and torts, are conceptualised as rights good between individuals. Locke argued that our “lives, liberties and estates” are our property because we own our bodies and mix our labour with our surroundings. European Union law is the first and so far the one example of a supranational law, i.e. an internationally accepted authorized system, aside from the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. Given the trend of accelerating international economic integration, many …