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Cambridge University Press The Great Property Fallacy
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Frank K .Upham uses empirical analysis and economic theory to demonstrate how myths surrounding property law have blinded us to our own past and led us to demand that developing countries implement policies that are mistaken and impossible. Starting in the 16th century with the English enclosures and ending with the World Bank''s recent attempt to reform Cambodian land law - while moving through 19th century America, postwar Japan, and contemporary China - Upham dismantles the virtually unchallenged assertion that growth cannot occur without stable legal property rights, and shows how rapid growth can come only through the destruction of pre-existing property structures and their replacement by more productive ones. He argues persuasively for the replacement of Western myths and theoretical simplifications with nuanced approaches to growth and development that are sensitive to complexity and difference and responsive to the political and social factors esseTrade Review'Is it possible that the widely held belief in well-enforced property rights as essential for economic flourishing is not only unfounded but also potentially dangerous? Drawing on studies of five countries, Frank K. Upham mounts an impressive challenge against a seldom-questioned pillar of development theory. The Great Property Fallacy is a great read, and will cause many to rethink the relation between property law and development.' Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University, Massachusetts'In this unprecedented comparative and historical treatise, Frank K. Upham integrates case studies across time and space and provides a coherent, persuasive theory highlighting the destruction of property rights in rapidly changing societies. In a clear, concise manner, The Great Property Fallacy reveals the complexity and contingency of property rights and ushers in a new era of understanding property rights in development. It will serve as a foundational work for years to come.' Shitong Qiao, The University of Hong Kong'Frank K. Upham's book provides a critical, compelling evaluation of the conventional wisdom among many law-and-development scholars and aid-and-development agencies: namely, that formalization of private property rights, especially to land, enforced by a strong, competent, and politically independent judiciary, is an indispensable element in effective growth strategies for developing countries. Through highly illuminating case studies from both developed and developing countries (including China), Upham challenges this conventional wisdom by showing that property rights regimes are highly context-specific and idiosyncratic, and that no single model is a precondition for economic development.' Michael Trebilcock, University of Toronto'Frank Upham's book, written by a law professor and sometime World Bank consultant, is … a passionate, personal cri de coeur based on the author's own observations about the missteps committed by those who seek to advance economic development by advancing property rights.' José E. Alvarez, American Journal of International Law'… impressed … focuses instead on whether formal property rights contribute to economic development. The lesson of The Great Property Fallacy is that development is not easy to come by - nations often fail, and even those that have succeeded do not necessarily know what they did right.' Yun-chien Chang, Law & Social InquiryTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Physics envy: property rights in development theory; 3. Property and markets: England and America; 4. Property and politics: Japan; 5. Law and development without the law part: China; 6. Theory in action: Cambodia; 7. Property rights and social change.
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Cambridge University Press Understanding the Law of Assignment
Book SynopsisThe practical importance of intangible personalty such as debt, bonds, equities, futures, derivatives and other financial instruments has never been greater than it is today. The same may be said of interests in intellectual property. Yet the assignment of these intangible assets from one to another remains difficult to understand. Assignments are often taken to operate as a form of transfer akin to conveyances of legal titles to tangible personalty. However, this conception does not accurately reflect the law of assignment as it has developed in the caselaw in England and Wales. This book sets out a different model of the workings of assignments as a matter of English law, one that provides an analytical, yet historically sensitive, framework which allows us to better understand how, and why, assignments work in the way the cases tell us they do.Trade Review'Chee Ho Tham has here produced a remarkably well-written, erudite and thoroughly informative work, and in addition a very distinct accretion to the scholarship on assignment. I recommend it without hesitation to commercial and obligations lawyers alike.' Andrew Tettenborn, Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law QuarterlyTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. A conceptual account of equitable and statutory assignments; Part II. The Model: 3. Invariability; 4. Different models of equitable assignment; 5. Misconceptions; 6. Combination; Part III. Joinder: 7. Joinder of assignor in equitable proceedings; 8. Joinder of assignor in proceedings at common law; 9. Equitable assignments of legal choses and non-joinder of the assignor; Part IV. Notice: 10. Giving notice of equitable assignments and its effect on competing assignees: the 'rule' in Dearle V. Hall; 11. Knowledge of assignment: substantive effects in equity between obligor and assignor; 12. Knowledge of assignment: procedural avoidance in equity and by statute of 'equities' or 'defences'; Part V. Statutes: 13. 'Statutory' assignments under Law of Property Act 1925, Section 136(1); 14. Statutory dealings in specific classes of intangible assets; Part VI. Consequences: 15. Why it matters.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Public Lands: Use & Misuse
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Mortgages: Fundamentals, Issues & Perspectives
Book SynopsisA mortgage represents a loan or lien on a property/house that has to be paid over a specified period of time. Mortgages come in many different shapes and sizes, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, terminology and vested interests. Mortgages represent one of the most (if not the most) significant investment decisions most individuals will make in their lifetimes. This new book presents invaluable information on some of the primary types of mortgages as well as FAQ and future trends in the industry.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Real Property: Analyses of Key Issues
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Eminent Domain: Uses, Effects, & Civil Rights
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The Law Society Stamp Duty Land Tax Handbook: A Guide for
Book SynopsisThis second edition is essential for residential property lawyers to understand better the stamp duty rules on residential property transactions in England and Northern Ireland. It will help practitioner's reduce costs and protect against claims for professional negligence and damage to reputation.
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The Law Society Property Development
Book SynopsisProperty Development explains all the issues arising from property development work and will guide lawyers, developers and landowners through the many pitfalls commonly encountered in practice. This new fourth edition has been comprehensively updated to include: *references to new legislation, planning guidance and statutory instruments, including the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023, the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022, the revised National Planning Policy Framework published in 2021 and the Community Infrastructure (Amendment) Regulations 2019 *references to new cases, including cases concerning easements benefitting the owners of timeshare apartments, interference with a right of way, breach of restrictive covenants and the use of a right of way to gain access to land not forming part of the dominant tenement *important changes to the Electronic Communications Code *important changes to the Community Infrastructure Levy regime *commentary on the proposed new Infrastructure Levy. The chapters on investigating title, planning and obtaining vacant possession have also been substantially revised and expanded. This practical guide features updated checklists, example model clauses, contracts and precedent deeds and transfers.
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The Law Society Forfeiture of Leases
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The Law Society Law of Property Act 1925 Pitfalls and Practice a Century On
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CILEX Education Property Law
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Museum Tusculanum Press Kvinder, familie og formue: Studier i dansk og
Book SynopsisIn Kvinder, familie og formue (Women, Family and Fortune), the author examines the financial circumstances among married couples and the rules of in-heritage between parents and children from the Middle Ages and onward through to the 20th century. A special focus is put on the notions of separate estate and community of property - and particularly on the improvements in the laws of property of married women.
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Oxford University Press The Great Demarcation
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Oxford University Press, USA Law and Geography Current Legal Issues 2002 Volume 5
Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between law and geography, particularly in relation to globalisation - of law, commerce, environmental change and society - which renders relations between the local and the global more significant. The book is structured according to conceptual frames - boundaries, land, property, nature, identity (persons, peoples and places), culture and time, and knowledge.Trade ReviewThe two editors - one a lawyer, the other a geographer - are to be congratulated on their collaborative venture and anyone interested in novel contexts surrounding either discipline will do well to examine the contents of this fascinating volume. * International Journal of Law in Context *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; 1. Connecting Law and Geography ; 2. From 'What' to 'So What': Law and Geography in Retrospect ; 3. The Spatial Dimension of Private Law ; BOUNDARIES ; 4. Beyond the Word: Law as a Thing of this World ; 5. The Queen's Peace: Reflections on the Spatial Politics of Sexuality in Law ; 6. Geography: The Problem of Scale, and Process or Allocation: The US National Organ Transplant Act of 1986, amended 1990 ; LAND ; 7. Freewheeling Uphill: Pedalling Downhill: Growing Pains in Developing a Land Market in China ; 8. Camels, Chameleons and Coyotes: Problematising the 'Histories' of Land Law Reform ; 9. Idolatry of Land ; PROPERTY ; 10. De/Re Territorialising Possession: the Shifting Spaces of Property Rights ; 11. Property Restitution, Property Law and the Post Communist Transition in Germany's New Bundeslander ; 12. Agenda 2000, Land Use and the Environment: Towards a Theory of 'Environmental' Property Rights ; 13. Property Rights, Urban Policy and the Law: Negotiating Neighbourhood Disputes in a Brazilian Shantytown ; 14. Informal Law in Informal Settlements ; NATURE ; 15. Governance and Resource Management in Mexico's Community Forestry Sector ; 16. Spaces of Diversity in Diverse Spaces ; 17. Conceptions of Environment in Law and Geography ; 18. Environmental gains? Collaborative planning, planning obligations and issues of closure in local land-use planning in the UK ; IDENTITY: PEOPLE, PERSONS AND PLACES ; 19. Only Connect ; 20. Family Geographies: Gobal Care Chains, Transnational Parenthood and New Legal Challenges in an Era of Labour Globalisation ; 21. On the Legal Geography of Ethnocratic Settler States: Notes Towards a Research Agenda ; CULTURE AND TIME ; 22. Green Metaphors: Language, Land and Law in Takings Debates ; 23. Space and Time: the Genius Loci of Ancient Places ; 24. From Local to Global - The Role of Geographical Isolation in Shaping Competition Law ; KNOWLEDGE ; 25. Putting Environmental Law on the Map: A Spatial Approach to Environmental Law Using GIS ; 26. Earth Observation and Principles on Data ; 27. Disciplinary Interactions: Ontological Commitments and Environmental Standard Setting
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Oxford University Press Inc Private Property and Public Power
Book SynopsisWhen governments use eminent domain to transfer property between private owners, Americans are outraged-or so most media and academic accounts would have us believe. But these accounts obscure a much more complex reality in American conceptions of property. In this book, Debbie Becher presents the first comprehensive study of a city''s eminent domain acquisitions, exploring how and why the City of Philadelphia took properties between 1992 and 2007 and which takings led to protests. She uses original data-collected from city offices and interviews with over a hundred residents, business owners, community leaders, government representatives, attorneys, and appraisers-to explore how eminent domain really works.Becher surprises readers by finding that the city took over 4,000 private properties, or one out of every hundred such properties in Philadelphia, during her study period. Furthermore, these takings only rarely provoked opposition-a fact that established views on property are ill-equipped to explain.To investigate how Americans judge the legitimacy of eminent domain, Becher devotes several chapters to two highly controversial sets of takings for redevelopment projects. The American Street takings were intended to win popular support for redevelopment and initially succeeded in doing so, but it ended as a near total failure and embarrassment. The Jefferson Square takings initially faced vociferous opposition, but they eventually earned residents'' approval and became a political showpiece.Becher uncovers evidence that Americans judge eminent domain through a social conception of property as an investment of value, committed over time, that government is responsible for protecting. This conception has never been described in sociological, legal, political, or economic scholarship, and it stands in stark contrast to the arguments of libertarian and left-leaning activists and academics. But recognizing property as investment, Becher argues, may offer a firm new foundation for more progressive urban policies.Trade ReviewBecher attempts to help the reader navigate the public-private dilemma raised by the use of eminent domain by highlighting the multiple ways in which public and private actions influence the value of private property... [Becher provides] practical insight on how to improve the implementation of eminent domain. * Kesha S. Moore, Social Forces *Property matters a great deal and getting it right is crucial. Debbie Becher nails it. Eschewing abstractions and the fulminations of libertarians and leftists alike, her excellent book captures how real people understand and evaluate government taking. The concept of investment that she develops offers important and challenging insights for policy makers and property theorists alike. * Nicholas Blomley, Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University *A powerful challenge to the conventional view of property in social science, Becher shows that people see property in a complex and social manner. This pioneering study demonstrates how- rather than treat property solely as a container for economic value or as a bundle of rights - people also invest their hopes, cares and emotions into it. * Richard Swedberg, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University *How to respond to the problems posed by derelict lots and vacant buildings is a question with which almost every city government grapples. Becher's analysis cuts through the familiar ideological slogans about government and private property to provide a deeper understanding of the political, economic and social forces driving urban redevelopment efforts. The result is a challenging and unexpectedly hopeful story with lessons that extend well beyond Philadelphia. * Eduardo M. Penalver, Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Chapter 1. Investment and Government Legitimacy ; Chapter 2. The Policy and Politics of Urban Redevelopment ; Chapter 3. Rhetoric without a Cause: Beyond Libertarian and Left Cries of Abuse ; Chapter 4. American Street I: From Badlands to Promised Lands ; Chapter 5. American Street II: From Promises to Protests ; Chapter 6. Jefferson Square I: Competing Visions of Investment Protection ; Chapter 7. Jefferson Square II: Legitimacy through Reconciled Visions ; Chapter 8. Compensating for Property by Recognizing Investments ; Chapter 9. The Politics of Property ; Bibliography ; Appendix 1 ; Appendix 2 ; Appendix 3 ; Notes ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA The International Law of Property
Book SynopsisDoes a right to property exist under international law? The traditional answer to this question is no: a right to property can only arise under the domestic law of a particular nation. But the view that property rights are exclusively governed by national law is obsolete. Identifiable areas of property law have emerged at the international level, and the foundation is now arguably being laid for a comprehensive international regime. This book provides a detailed investigation into this developing international property law. It demonstrates how the evolution of international property law has been influenced by major economic, political, and technological changes: the embrace of private property by former socialist states after the end of the Cold War; the globalization of trade; the birth of new technologies capable of exploiting the global commons; the rise of digital property; and the increasing recognition of the human right to property.The first part of the book analyzes how international law impacts rights in specific types of property. In some situations, international law creates property rights, such as rights in aboriginal lands, deep seabed minerals, and satellite orbits. In other areas, it harmonizes property rights that arise at the national level, such as rights in intellectual property, rights in foreign investments, and security interests in personal property. Finally, it restricts property rights that may be recognized at the national level, such as rights in celestial bodies, contraband, and slaves. The second part of the book explores the thesis that a global right to property should be recognized as a general matter, not merely as a moral precept but rather as an entitlement that all nations must honour. It establishes the components of such a right, arguing that the right to property at the international level should be seen in the context of five key components of ownership: acquisition, use, destruction, exclusion, and transfer. This highly innovative book makes an important contribution to how we conceptualize the protection of property and to the understanding that much of this protection now takes place at the international level.Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Concept of International Property Law ; 2. The Human Right to Property ; PART II: PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY LAW ; 3. Chattels ; 4. Intangible Property ; 5. Land ; 6. Oceans ; 7. Atmosphere ; PART III: COMPONENTS OF INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY LAW ; 8. Toward Global Property Rights ; 9. The Right to Acquire ; 10. The Right to Possess and Use ; 11. The Right to Destroy ; 12. The Right to Exclude ; 13. The Right to Transfer ; PART IV: OUTLOOK ; 14. The Future of International Property Law
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