Description
Book SynopsisLand Law: Themes and Perspectives provides a collection of specially commissioned essays for students studying land law at undergraduate level. The book brings together leading authors, as well as some younger scholars, and explores land law from a variety of traditions within legal scholarship. The book contains chapters on topics essential to all land law courses, and seeks to question the boundaries of the discipline and to engage with wider debates aboutthe role of land in society. It will be invaluable reading for all undergraduate students of land law as well as postgraduate students and researchers working in the area.
Trade Review"While many of the chapters contain valuable novel insights into their subject matter, an understandable consequence of the volume's stated objectives is that much of its contents consist of reviews of existing material; this has the considerable merit of directing the interested reader on to sources of further study." The Cambridge Law Journal
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ; Introduction ; PART ONE: PROPERTY IN LAND ; 1. The Idea of Property in Land ; 2. Critical Land Law ; PART TWO: LAND LAW IN HISTORY ; 3. Roman Ideas of Land Ownership ; 4. The 1925 Property Legislation: Setting Contexts ; 5. Evidencing Ownership ; 6. The Law Commission and the Reform of Land Law ; PART THREE: LAND LAW AND CITIZENSHIP ; 7. The Home Owner: Citizen or Consumer? ; 8. Women and Trust(s): Portraying the Family in the Gallery of Law ; 9. Citizens and Squatters: Under the Surfaces of Land Law ; 10. Homelessness ; 11. Land Law and Dispossession: Indigenous Rights to Land in Australia ; 12. Land and Post-Apartheid Reconstruction in South Africa ; PART FOUR: POLICY ISSUES IN LAND LAW ; 13. Land, Law and the Family Home ; 14. Europe, the Nation State and Land ; 15. Occupying 'Cheek by Jowl' Property Issues Arising From Communal Living ; 16. Land and Agricultural Production ; 17. Real Property and its Regulation: The Community Rights Rationale for Town Planning ; PART FIVE: DOCTRINAL ISSUES IN LAND LAW ; 18. Before We Begin: Five Keys to Land Law ; 19. Informally Created Interests in Land ; 20. Taking Formalities Seriously ; 21. Of Estates and Interests: A Tale of Ownership and Property Rights
