Property law: general

Countries which take spatial planning seriously should take planning law and property rights also seriously.

Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations.

Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations.

The contributors in this volume address the fundamental relationship between the state and its citizens, and among the people themselves.

The contributors in this volume address the fundamental relationship between the state and its citizens, and among the people themselves.

University can be a psychologically distressing place for students.

University can be a psychologically distressing place for students.

Peace-building in a number of contemporary contexts involves fragile states, influential customary systems and histories of land conflict arising from mass population displacement.

Peace-building in a number of contemporary contexts involves fragile states, influential customary systems and histories of land conflict arising from mass population displacement.

Property rights and efforts to curb state appropriation of private properties for public purposes have always held high status on the political agenda of the US and many other nations that feature a corporate capitalist economic system.

Property rights and efforts to curb state appropriation of private properties for public purposes have always held high status on the political agenda of the US and many other nations that feature a corporate capitalist economic system.

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason.

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reason.

This book examines the diverse use of Indigenous customary rights in modern landscapes from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book examines the diverse use of Indigenous customary rights in modern landscapes from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, but its boundaries are under constant negotiation.

Medical confidentiality has long been recognised as a core element of medical ethics, but its boundaries are under constant negotiation.

Each country in southern Africa has a unique history but in all of them socio-economic inequalities and high poverty levels weaken the governments' legitimacy and represent a challenge to models of economic development.

Each country in southern Africa has a unique history but in all of them socio-economic inequalities and high poverty levels weaken the governments' legitimacy and represent a challenge to models of economic development.

This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen.

This volume argues that legislation on abortion, adultery, and rape has been central to the formation of the modern citizen.

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law.

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law.

What, exactly, is private property?

What, exactly, is private property?

Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body.

Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body.

It is becoming increasingly common for human rights norms to be transferred between legal and political systems and this book is a fresh approach to the intersection of transnational law and the protection of cultural difference beyond the single state border.

It is becoming increasingly common for human rights norms to be transferred between legal and political systems and this book is a fresh approach to the intersection of transnational law and the protection of cultural difference beyond the single state border.

Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world.

Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world.

This interdisciplinary volume illuminates housing''s impact on both wealth and community, and examines legal and policy responses to current challenges.

This interdisciplinary volume illuminates housing''s impact on both wealth and community, and examines legal and policy responses to current challenges.

Focussing on the Torrens title system, this text offers students and practitioners a unique perspective on Australian real property law.

Focussing on the Torrens title system, this text offers students and practitioners a unique perspective on Australian real property law.

1999 was a decisive year in the long history of the people of Timor-Leste, whose future was open when they voted for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum.

1999 was a decisive year in the long history of the people of Timor-Leste, whose future was open when they voted for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum.

A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law provides a strong foundation in commercial landlord and tenant, and housing law.

A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law provides a strong foundation in commercial landlord and tenant, and housing law.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations.

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations.

This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands.

This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands.

This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan.

This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan.

In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps.

The Yearbooks of Cultural Property Law provide the key, up-to-date information and analyses that keep heritage professionals, lawyers, and land managers abreast of current legal practice, including summaries of notable court cases, settlements and other dispositions, legislation, government regulations, policies and agency decisions.

Land reform has been the most challenging social issue for China, which is in transition from an agricultural society to an industrialized country.