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This House Is Not for Sale
Current research explores land, home, and community in South Africa through a sociological lens.
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Jurisprudence of the SA constitutional court – a comparative study
The project will analyse three factors in play: a national project of post-colonial recovery from distributive injustice, prominently including land reform; express constitutional protection for property rights; and a constitution whose other main features bring it recognisably within the broad historical tradition of liberal constitutionalism.
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Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Ownership in South Africa
Nustad, Knut G., Duncan Brown and Heather A. Swanson. 2023. Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Owners...
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Liberal Constitutionalism, property Rights, and the Assault on poverty
Frank I Michelman. 2012. Liberal Constitutionalism, property Rights, and the Assault on poverty. Stellenbosch Law Review, 22 (3), pp 706–723
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Analysing Land Law Reform
Peters, Pauline E. 2015. Analysing Land Law Reform. Development and Change 46 (1): 167–93. doi:10.1111/dech.12137.
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Plurale Bodennutzungen Und Polyrationales Bodeneigentum
Davy, Benjamin. 2015. Plurale Bodennutzungen Und Polyrationales Bodeneigentum. Pp. 1–36 in Handbuch der Geodäsie, edited by W. Freeden and R...
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Compensation Through Expropriation without Compensation? Land Reform and the Future of Redistributive Justice in South Africa
The decision by the South African Parliament in February 2018 to review the constitutional property clause possibly allowing for expropriation without compensation has fervently brought the land question back into public debate.
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Law, Kinship, and the Formal Processes of Middle-Class Reproduction in Johannesburg, South Africa
This project investigates how legal and bureaucratic processes mediate inheritance in South Africa, as a window into the formal institutional dimensions of middle-class reproduction.
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From Sovereignty to Property (and back): The spatial transition of colonial and developmentalist claims over land
Central to the question of land grabs around the world is a tension between the sovereignty of States - and its internal manifestation in the form of eminent domain - and the property rights of individuals and communities.
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Property – Obstacle or Key to Success for South Africa's Constitutional Democracy?
The inclusion of a clause protecting the deprivation of property in South Africa’s Constitution was controversial.
