1 Introduction

Township establishment in South Africa takes place in terms of the provincial Ordinances of the "old" South Africa. The process, which is overseen by municipalities, is a lengthy one, sometimes taking up to three years before a township is ready for occupation. This practice frustr...   MORE>>

1 Introduction

In April 2009, with the advent of the Zuma Presidency, rural development became one of the key priority programmes for the next five years (2009-2014). The premise of this article is that the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (hereafter "the Constitution"), provide...   MORE>>

Introduction: Social Rights and Poverty

There are different ways to fight against poverty. For example, you could simply rely on economic development, on charity or it can solely be based on governmental initiatives. Sustainable economic development is a precondition to significantly diminish pov...   MORE>>

This article examines the issue of ownership rights over archaeological objects found in Indonesian waters. In particular, ownership claims over shipwrecks and the treasures contained therein are considered. The author analyses the position under international law, as well as relevant Indonesian leg...   MORE>>

I. Introduction

The 2005 changes in the Bankruptcy Code significantly affected a number of rules applicable to homestead protection in bankruptcy. The primary change, of course, was that if one acquires a Texas homestead within 1,215 days of filing for bankruptcy, homestead protection might be li...   MORE>>

According to the Oxford University Press website, The Transfer of Property in the Conflict of Laws is intended for commercial practitioners, particularly those with a cross-border practice, academics and scholars of the conflict of laws, postgraduate/advanced students of the subject, and legal refer...   MORE>>

A geographically small country, with a shortage of land, Singapore has traditionally relied on land reclamation as a means of providing additional physical space to accommodate its housing, industrial and economic needs. Singapore has been reclaiming land since its early colonial days without attrac...   MORE>>

“It’s 11:30 at night and you want to go to bed, but there’s a party going on next door. You tell them that; they don’t care. It’s having your wife go out to get the paper and cutting her feet on a bottle some undergrad smashed on your doorstep the night before. It’s begging [Boston Colle...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

The Fourth Amendment’s Seizure Clause is mired in the eighteenth century. Its counterpart, the Search Clause, has evolved through a steady progression of Supreme Court cases from Berger to Katz to Kyllo, no longer confined to the property-based interests embodied in Olmstead v. ...   MORE>>

“[The] genius of our Constitution resides not in any static meaning that it had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with the problems of a developing America. A principle to be vital must be of wider application than the mischief that gave it b...   MORE>>