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Land Law is the body of legal rules and principles governing the ownership, use, and transfer of land and real property. It encompasses various aspects such as property rights, land use regulations, and the legal relationships between individuals and entities regarding land.
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Land Law is the body of legal rules and principles governing the ownership, use, and transfer of land and real property. It encompasses various aspects such as property rights, land use regulations, and the legal relationships between individuals and entities regarding land.

Key research themes

1. How do constitutional principles and legal frameworks shape land administration reforms to promote pro-poor land governance in Sub-Saharan Africa?

This research area investigates the influence of constitutional tenets—specifically human rights, rule of law, and legal pluralism—on land administration systems (LAS) and legal frameworks in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Understanding these relationships is pivotal due to the challenges in embedding pro-poor objectives within land governance reforms. The studies focus on developing conceptual frameworks and evaluate existing constitutions to ensure that land administration reforms are equitable, legally coherent, and responsive to customary and statutory law pluralism to improve tenure security and responsible land management.

Key finding: This study developed a conceptual framework to assess LAS and their legal frameworks in SSA based on three core constitutional tenets—human rights, rule of law, and legal pluralism. It found that embedding these principles... Read more
Key finding: The paper identifies notable deficiencies in Ethiopia's legislative and institutional land governance frameworks, including the absence of multiple tenure systems and weak institutional capacity. By comparing Ethiopia's... Read more
Key finding: This editorial synthesizes global land reform trajectories indicating that 21st-century reforms must navigate post-colonial legacies, urbanization, climate displacement, and governance complexities. It highlights evolving... Read more

2. What are the roles, challenges, and consequences of informal and formal mechanisms enforcing land rights and governance in contexts of weak state capacity?

This theme explores the interplay between state and non-state actors in land rights enforcement, specifically focusing on informal security providers such as land guards, legal disputes over property rights, and judicial interventions. Research in this area addresses the consequences of governance gaps manifested in unregulated actors exerting control, the role of courts in resolving property conflicts, and the procedural and legal complexities affecting land tenure security, particularly in Africa and developing countries. Methodological approaches include legal case analyses, field studies, and institutional critiques.

Key finding: This paper documents the rise of unregulated land guards as private security actors enforcing property claims amid rapid urbanization and weak formal law enforcement in Ghana. It reveals that land guards derive legitimacy... Read more
Key finding: The report highlights the procedural and jurisprudential challenges in South African land reform, including contested property clause amendments, judicial interpretations of 'just and equitable' compensation, and the struggle... Read more
Key finding: This research problematizes Mexico's agrarian legal regime and indigenous territorial rights, showing how formalist judicial frameworks inadequately address indigenous land governance. The study reveals that agrarian courts... Read more
Key finding: This study critically examines Bangladesh's requirements and procedures in government requisition of immovable property, identifying legal ambiguities such as the undefined 'public purpose' that enable potential abuse of... Read more

3. How do legal theories and property law doctrines influence the conceptualization and adjudication of ownership and land rights?

Research within this theme scrutinizes foundational legal concepts of property, particularly in relation to exclusion rights, possession, and ownership limits. It interrogates dominant paradigms such as legal positivism and the 'bundle of rights' metaphor, revealing contradictions in property doctrine and the dynamic interaction between legal norms and social realities. The theme covers jurisprudential critiques and case law analysis focused on ownership structures, judicial discretion, and how evolving societal values and technical advancements challenge traditional property law boundaries.

Key finding: The paper critiques the positivist paradigm in property law, emphasizing that ownership is more fluid and context-dependent than the dominant ideological framework suggests. It highlights that property rights are diffuse and... Read more
Key finding: This study unpacks inherent contradictions in U.S. property law, emphasizing the tension between individual ownership rights and communal or common good interests. It elaborates on property as a dynamic set of legal... Read more
Key finding: This paper deconstructs the conventional conception of private land ownership as an inherent individual right, tracing its origins to historical acts of territorial imposition and colonialism. It juxtaposes dominant property... Read more

All papers in Land Law

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui dan memahami tanggung jawab negara terhadap pelaksanaan pembangunan perumahan yang berdasarkan prinsip-prinsip Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM), dan untuk mengetahui implementasi pengaturan hukum... more
To what extent were the programme objectives achieved at outcome (and if verifiable at impact level?) Why and why not? Are there any unintended results of the programme?
Land tenure system in Africa has received extensive research coverage. For years the customary tenure system was regarded as contradictions to development. Researchers and donor organisations, particularly the World Bank, pushed this... more
1. Internationally there is a large and growing body of scholarly literature that describes problems of land access and discusses the 'exclusion' of people, often indigenous people, from landscapes. Exclusion connotes the removal... more
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This article examines the Greek term κτοίνα, a lexical survival from the Mycenaean period that reappears sporadically in inscriptions from the Rhodian area dating to the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as in Hesychius’ Lexicon. The... more
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This is a preprint of an article that appeared in: 2002 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, pp. 101-37.
Petitioner instructed by T.M.K.B.Tennakoon. Oswald Perera, S.C. for the Respondents.
This is an application for Restitutio in Integrum filed by the substituted Plaintiff-Petitioner-Petitioner to set aside the order of the District Court of Monaragala dated 21.03.2024 in Case No. 2229/L, and to set aside the settlement... more
The contemporary debate on the “commons” often relies on economic paradigms that assume the inevitable depletion of open-access resources unless subjected to collective regulation. Yet this perspective risks obscuring the legal complexity... more
This article attempts to study the interaction between two antagonistic dynamics that the community of the mediaeval city of Taroudant has undergone and is still experiencing, starting from the colonial period to the 2020s. It is... more
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Since long before the 2023 wildfires, Lahaina has been a battleground for Kanaka Maoli who are winning their ancestral lands back in settler courts of law. Kanaka Maoli leader Keʻeaumoku Kapu has waged legal battles against developers and... more
Land acquisition for public purposes is an activity intended for the public interest that uses community land. To be able to carry out development in the public interest, the government uses state land. If state land is not sufficient or... more
A "colourful transaction" in the context of Section 96 of the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act, 1950 of Bangladesh, refers to a transfer of land that is disguised as something other than a sale in order to defeat the right of... more
This case examines the decision of the High Court of Tanzania at Musoma in PC Civil Appeal No. 73 of 2022, arising from disputes over the administration of the estate of the late Erasto Josiah Toga. The central issue concerned whether... more
The book compares fundamental legal conditions such as property ownership rights, land tenure, and tax regimes in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The chapter... more
Indonesia merupakan negara yang sedang berkembang, sama halnya dengan negara-negara berkembang lainnya yang dalam pembangunan dan persebaran penduduknya akan semakin terus meningkat dengan seiring berkembangnya zaman. Karena hal itu... more
Seventeen years of struggle. That's what it took for the United Nations to adopton 17 December 2018the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP 2018). UNDROP recognises the dignity of the... more
1 Department of Climate Change and Food Security, Faculty of Agribusiness and Communication Sciences, University for Development Studies, P. O. Box TL 1882, Tamale, Ghana. 2 Department of Climate Change and Food Security, Faculty of... more
This Compendium of Judgments on the Forest Rights Act: 2015 - 2018 is a companion volume to a first of its kind Compendium of Judgments on the Forest Rights Act 2007-2015 published by MoTA and UNDP in December 2015 (available at... more
ResuMO: O artigo discute a recepção da lei que restringe o capital estrangeiro na aquisição de propriedade rural no Brasil, promulgada durante a ditadura militar, pela Constituição de 1988.
sugarcane farming. The investor was anxious to "get the squatters off my land", and with the help of the UPDF, Flora and others were soon evicted. She went to find a living in the closest town. Flora turned to the authorities to get her... more
Дана стаття присвячена дослідженню визначення предмету контролю залежно від виду господарської діяльності, яку провадить підприємство Постановка проблеми. Контроль є невід'ємною складовою управління господарською діяльністю. На сучасному... more
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Tanah memiliki makna yang sangat penting dalam kehidupan masyarakat Indonesia. Ia tidak hanya bernilai ekonomis, tetapi juga menyangkut identitas, budaya, dan spiritualitas. Bagi masyarakat adat, tanah merupakan bagian dari warisan... more
The aim of this thesis is to assess the Irish regulatory approach to asset and wealth distribution upon marital breakdown, and to highlight the implications arising from the failure to articulate the social policy aims of such regulation.... more
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Land is an important asset and redistribution of land is a sensitive subject in Colombia. Land issues in Colombia are complex and include political, social and economic aspects. Due to an on-going conflict people are being denied access... more
The chapter examines the ins and outs of a protected area zonation undertaken by the Ministry of Environment and a large conservation organisation in Northern Cambodia. On paper, the approach was innovative as it aimed to promote an... more
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This paper explores two concepts of recent interest to Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, including notions of personhood as expressed in the law and diverse felt obligations of care. As with Keebet, we are interested in how both interrelate with... more
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