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Conceptualising Property Rights Research

Author/s: John Sheehan

Date Published: 1/01/2006

Published in: Volume 12 - 2006 Issue 4 (pages 389 - 410)

Abstract

Traditional legal research can be distinguished from the research approach used for property rights, which of necessity is at a jurisprudential level indistinguishable as a part of broader social sciences. Economic rights can be contrasted from legal rights permitting the identification of flawed property rights, which are a legacy of colonial history. Property rights in many post colonial common law countries evidence cultural blindness with fundamental flaws in property relationships.This extraordinary depth of research required to comprehend the complex matrix of embedded property rights requires an inter-disciplinary appreciation of colonial history, international law and the pragmatic responses of post-colonial legal regimes.

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Keywords

Natural Resources - Post-Colonial Legacy - Property Law - Property Rights - Research

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