An interesting story about neighbors in a UK village banding together to defend a squatter who had restored a neglected home that had become an eyesore brings out the ambiguity of squatting, a topic near and dear to my heart. (HT NPR)

Eduardo M. Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. The views expressed in the piece are his own, and should not be attributed to Cornell University or Cornell Law School.

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