This quantitative study compares Kalamazoo Promise (KPromise) students to non-Promise, public high school graduating students at the 4-year institution at which the largest number of KPromise students have enrolled and graduated. The sample was generated from 2009-12 Fall cohorts. To add depth...

Australian lawyers often extol the virtues of the Torrens system as a means to secure property in land. Yet, the comparative evidence of benefits is mixed and context-dependent, particularly in terms of the nature, provenance and capacity of the state. This article analyses ways in which...

This paper applies differing models of culture and law to analyse the notion that Confucian culture is an independent variable in the operation of East Asian corporate law. Its case study is Chinese family firms in Indonesia. The study is apt because these firms dominate the private commercial...

This article considers fragmented property systems – the phenomenon of contested, separated or overlapping sub-systems within a national property jurisdiction. One example is circumstances of property despite law. Globally, as many as a billion people claim de facto property without...

The task of land claims in East Timor is unusually complex and difficult. This article, therefore, simply attempts a preliminary assessment. It does not seek to provide answers or recommendations as such, but rather a basic chronology of events, and typology of current and future land claims....

Recent law and economics scholarship has revived a debate on bright-line rules in property theory. Economic analysis asserts a baseline preference for bright-line property rules because of the information costs if 'all the world' had to understand a range of permitted uses, or deal with multiple...