While most studies looking at the consequences of tenurial insecurity on land markets in developing countries focus on the effects of tenurial insecurity on the investment behavior of landowners, this paper studies the hitherto unexplored relationship between tenurial insecurity and contract...

Many Sub-Saharan African countries are embarking on major changes in their property rights law with the goal of achieving more vigorous economic growth and alleviating poverty. Uganda has been at the forefront of these changes in property rights in land with Constitutional change and a new land...

The institutional and ecological structure of Hardin’s “tragedy of the commons” appears deceptively simple: the open-access pasture eventually will be overexploited and degraded unless (i) it is privatized, (ii) the government regulates access and use, or (iii) the users themselves impose...

A regulação da propriedade privada pode ser considerada como a forma mais essencial de regulação. O caráter central da regulação da propriedade privada para a maioria dos sistemas jurídicos não se justifica apenas do ponto de vista acadêmico ou ideológico. Tal entendimento tem uma...

After several decades of improvement, water quality in the United States is getting worse, and the problem is primarily caused by run-off from non-point sources, such as farms and urban development. These non-point sources have never had regulatory mandates in the Clean Water Act, and have...

The appendices for this paper are available at the following URL: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2239843 Comparative lawyers and economists have often assumed that traditional Chinese laws and customs reinforced the economic and political dominance of elites and, therefore, were unusually...

This is the tables of contents and cases, the preface, and part of the introductory chapter to the 3rd edition of Native American Natural Resources Law, published by Carolina Academic Press. This coursebook is suitable for a 2- or 3-credit course in Indian Law or Environmental and Natural...

Invoking expropriatory legislation has invariably raised public alarm. Land acquisition may be graded as the most unpopular of such legislations. Controversies, protests and violences have marred almost all land acquisition projects in India. This public resent was reflected in the 2012 Report...

Recent legislation passed in March 2012 in the State of Utah – the “Transfer of Public Lands Act and Related Study,” (“TPLA”) also commonly referred to House Bill 148 (“H.B. 148”) – has demanded that the federal government, by December 31, 2014, “extinguish title” to certain...

Much of the early scholarship relating to the introduction of genetically engineered plants focused on the potential liability of farmers resulting from the contamination of neighboring fields. A second line of scholarship explored the trade-related implications of commingled export shipments...