Property and human rights in a global context
By: edited by Ting Xu and Jean Allain
Series: Human rights law in perspective -- volume 20
Publisher: Hart Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, OR
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781849467261
Subjects: Human rights; Right of property; Congresses
Description: Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs. Yet, for the most part, the relationship between property and human rights has been discussed in rather superficial terms, lacking a clear substantive connection or common language. That said, the currents of globalisation have witnessed a new era of interrelation between these two areas of the law, including the emergence of international intellectual property law and the recognition of indigenous claims, which, in fundamental ways, speak to an engagement with human rights law. This collection starts the conversation between human rights lawyers and property lawyers and explores analytical approaches to the increasing relationship between property and human rights in a global context. The chapters engage with key theoretical and policy debates and range across three main themes: The re-evaluation of the public/private divide in the law; the tensions between the market and social justice in development and the balance between the rights of individuals and those of communities. The chapters adopt a global, comparative perspective and engage in case studies from countries including India, Philippines, Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom and includes various regions of Africa and Europe
Notes: Book originated in a panel "The Engagement between Property and Human Rights in a Global Context" at the 26th World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in July 2013.-- ECIP Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: property and human rights in a global context / Ting Xu and Jean Allain; title: Property, human rights and communities / Alison Clarke; title: Cultural property and community rights to cultural heritage / Fiona Macmillan; title: Constitutional law, social justice and the redistribution of land / Tom Allen; title: Property in persons: prohibiting contemporary slavery as a human right / Jean Allain; title: Property in human bodies, self-preservation and human rights / Elena Beltrán; title: Reconciling lockean copyright with the human right to education / Leonardo Machado Pontes; title: Filling the institutional void between fundamental rights and the legal purchase of goods : what role for consumocratic law? / P Martin Dumas; title: Development, property and international investment : the double-edged sword of human rights / Bruce Wardhaugh; title: The reach of human rights / Dave Cowan and Sally Wheeler; title: Communal property rights in international human rights instruments : implications for de facto expropriation / Ting Xu and Wei Gong; title: Property right to rural land in Ethiopia : a human rights perspective / Belachew Fikre; title: Customary land rights, indigenous rights and land expropriation in Cameroon : ecosystem services as a possible new approach in valuing compensation / Walters Nsoh.