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Property enhances autonomy for most people, but not for all. Because it both empowers and disables, property requires constant vigilance. A Liberal Theory of Property addresses key questions: how can property be justified? What core values should property law advance, and how do those values interrelate? How is a liberal state obligated to act when shaping property law? In a liberal polity, the primary commitment to individual autonomy dominates the justification of property, founding it on thre...

This book examines condominium, property, governance, and law in international and conceptual perspective and reveals this urban realm as complex and mutating. Condominiums are proliferating the world over and transforming the socio-spatial organization of cities and residential life. The collection assembles arguably the most prominent scholars in the world currently working in this broad area and situated in multiple disciplines, including legal and socio-legal studies, political science, pub...

Der inflationaren Zunahme von Vertragen im internationalen Umweltrecht steht ein Defizit auf der Durchsetzungsebene gegenuber. Die Arbeit geht der Frage nach, welche Funktionen dem Haftungsrecht in dieser Situation zukommen. UEber die Analyse der haftungsrechtlichen Entwicklung im Umweltrecht hinaus wird untersucht, ob Staaten auch jenseits von vertraglichen Verpflichtungen fur Umweltschaden haftbar gemacht werden koennen. Kann sich ein Staat in der heutigen Zeit der Teilnahme an globalen Regime...

High yielding property in the UK is getting harder to find. So if you wish to carry on investing in property - and it's still the best investment there is according to the author - then you need to go international. This book explores and identifies property hotspots around the world. If you study each hotspot you'll see that every one is worth a visit if you wish to base your investment on financial fundamentals. You can increase your knowledge further by using the internet sites listed, and e...

Whether calculating a net present value, assessing an internal rate of return, or considering the impact of debt on a transaction when analysing investments in property it is very hard to get away from the need for cashflows. These cashflows range from the very simple to the extremely complex and can take anything from minutes to days to produce. Of course, valuation software exists that will produce these for you - but sometimes there are situations where you can't avoid having to do the job yo...

This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between religion and multiculturalism and the role of the state and law in the creation of boundaries. Western secular democracies are composed of increasingly religiously diverse populations. The idea of "multiculturalism" was formed as a constructive response to this phenomenon, but, in many areas of the globe, support for multiculturalism is challenged by attempts to preserve the cultural and legal norms of the majority. The State...

This guide, written by A. Wenban-Smith & B. Pearce, in its first edition advocated the partnership approach to development, an approach which has since increasingly superseded the confrontational relationship between developers and local authorities. This new edition takes account of the major changes in law and practice that have accompanied this shift. In the present work, a full introduction to the practical operation of the planning system in this new context is provided, as is guidance on w...

The biggest question in the world of art and culture concerns the return of property taken without consent. Throughout history, conquerors or colonial masters have taken artefacts from subjugated peoples, who now want them returned from museums and private collections in Europe and the USA. The controversy rages on over the Elgin Marbles, and has been given immediacy by figures such as France's President Macron, who says he will order French museums to return hundreds of artworks acquired by fo...

Agricultural reforms, including privatization of land and farm restructuring, are an important cornerstone for overall transformation of the economies of the former socialist world. This paper summarizes the current status of land reform in Moldova and shows how there has been clear progress in creating a market-based agriculture and food sector in Moldova. The results of this study indicate that genuine restructuring and transition to full-fledged private farming have resulted in improved profi...

Many property people like to ignore IT. If it works, it becomes another chore which runs your life. If, or in many cases, when it doesn't work, it is more of a problem than it is worth. A few recognise IT as a useful, but often frustrating, tool. Assuming that you have decided to use IT more effectively as part of your efficiency drive, this book will show you how to approach the whole project, not just the technology. This book starts with the business and those elements of day to day work whic...

Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land Management provides strategic focus to the implementation of sustainable land management (SLM) components o...

De Coulanges original study provided a historical view of how land has become property which was then translated and published in 1891 by M. Ashley, not just to bring this study to an English reader but to provide a counter argument to Agrarian Communism. This edition also contains an introductory chapter on the origin of the manor house in England. This title will be of interest to students of History.

How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata become objects and therefore propertized, and what are the social, economic, and ethical considerations for such transformations? Addressing these hotly contested issues and many more, Property in Questio...

Focused content, layout and price - Routledge competes and wins in relation to all of these factors - Craig Lind, University of Sussex, UK The best value and best format books on the market. - Ed Bates, Southampton University, UK Routledge Student Statutes present all the legislation students need in one easy-to-use volume. Developed in response to feedback from lecturers and students, this book offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, and clearly presented collection of legislation - ideal...

The role of expert witness makes considerable demands upon anyone who ventures across its threshold: for he will have a duty of allegiance to the court or tribunal while employed and paid by just one of the parties. The purpose of the play is to give an explanation, in an entertaining way, of the role of the expert witness; and also to provide tips for those engaged in expert witness work. The play comprises a sequence of short scenes, with commentary between, tracing the fortunes of an expert...

In the twenty years that followed the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, 800,000 Jews left their homes in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, and several other Arab countries. Although the causes of this exodus varied, restrictive governmental measures and an outburst of anti-Semitic feeling during and after the war were major factors. Some of these "Mizrahi" Jews, most of whom were not active Zionists, were forced to leave behind property of great financial and ancestral value-property that was s...