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Class Of 2011 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law
Class Of 2011 Incoming Il Law Students, St. Mary's University School Of Law, St. Mary's University School Of Law
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Photographs of incoming law students for the St. Mary’s University School of Law, class of 2011
The Chinese Takings Law From A Comparative Perspective, Chenglin Liu
The Chinese Takings Law From A Comparative Perspective, Chenglin Liu
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When acquiring private property, governments may exercise one of three options: confiscation, consensual exchange, or eminent domain. Under the first approach, the government can confiscate private land without seeking consent from private owners and without paying compensation to them. Alternatively, under the consensual exchange approach, the government can only acquire private property through arm’s-length negotiations in an open market. It requires the government to obtain consent from private owners and pay mutually agreed purchase prices, determined by both the government as a willing buyer and private owners as willing sellers. The third approach is through eminent domain, which denotes when …