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Acquiring Land Use Rights In Today's China: A Snapshot From On The Ground, Gregory M. Stein

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For the interested observer of real estate markets, China is the most fascinating place in the world today, and the coming years promise to be no less intriguing than the recent past has been. This Article offers an overview of how a specific segment of the Chinese real estate market - the acquisition of land use rights - operates in practice, from both a legal and business perspective.

I recently interviewed dozens of Chinese and Western experts who are taking part in one of the greatest real estate booms in world history. My conversations with these real estate developers, bankers, …

Finding A Right To The City: Exploring Property And Community In Brazil And In The United States, Ngai Pindell

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Increasing poor people's access to property and shelter in urban settings raises difficult questions over how to define property and, likewise, how to communicate who is entitled to legal property protections. An international movement - the right to the city - suggests one approach to resolving these questions. This Article primarily explores two principles of the right to the city - the social function of property and the social function of the city - to consider how to better achieve social and economic justice for poor people in urban areas. Using Brazil as one example of a country incorporating these …

The Study Of Intellectual Property At The William S. Boyd School Of Law, Mary Lafrance

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This article discusses the intellectual property program at William S. Boyd School of Law.