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Property And Prosperity, A Demythifying Story, Xiaoqian Hu

St. John's Law Review

(Excerpt)

Economic development is fundamentally a property law story. Prominent thinkers―from Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, to Douglass North and Richard Posner―tell us that protection of private property rights is essential for economic growth and wealth accumulation. Clear and freely alienable property rights reduce transaction costs and allow private bargaining to produce efficient results. Property rights allow owners to internalize the costs and benefits of their own behavior, reduce production costs, and encourage innovation. Secure property rights protect owners from arbitrary confiscation by the government, foster owner expectations, and facilitate investment, trade, and the development of financial markets. The idea …

Urbanization, Land Rights And Development: A Case Study Of Waterfront Communities In Lagos, Nigeria., Gideon Olaniyi Omoniyi

Master's Theses

The aim of this study is to examine the root causes of forced evictions and displacement through the current urbanization process in Lagos, Nigeria. My particular attention is devoted to the legal complexities and how ethnolinguistic identities shape land laws, influence land tenure, and construct urban citizenship. Through this process, competing claims to land ownership provide fertile ground for forced evictions and displacement. Existing scholars suggest that poor urban residents lack rights to stay in their neighborhoods, while a powerful capitalist class has emerged and dispossessed the poor from their lands. Yet these existing approaches derived from the neoclassical and …

Law, Extralegality, And Space: Legal Pluralism Ad Landscape From Colombia To Puerto Rico, Érika Fontánez Torres

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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The Key To Dreams: The Law And The Other City, Andrée Viana Garcés, Juan Felipe Pinilla Pineda

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Public Spaces In Bogotá: An Introduction, Nancy Rhinehart

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Learning From Bogotá: An Introduction To The Study Space Articles, Colin Crawford

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Squatters, Pirates, And Entrepreneurs: Is Informality The Solution To The Urban Housing Crisis?, Carmen G. Gonzalez

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Urban Informality As A Commons Dilemma, Sheila R. Foster

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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