Bringing the Law Back In

Patrick McAuslan is Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, London, UK and Emeritus Professor of Urban Management, UCL. He was awarded his MBE for services to African land use and environment in the Birthday honours in 2001.

Opinions: Land policy: a framework for analysis and action; The urban land question; Law and urban development: impediments to reform; Only the name of the country changes: the diaspora of ’European’ land law in Commonwealth Africa; The best laid schemes o’ mice an' men: the diaspora of town and country planning law in Africa and Asia; Bringing the law back in: urban law in Africa and the habitat agenda. Operations: The role of law in urban planning and land development; Planning law in the Commonwealth Caribbean: the challenge of reform; A legal framework for planning and development control: alternative methods for the Madras Metropolitan area; Land tenure, the urban poor and the law in Bangladesh: implementing the habitat agenda; Making law work: restructuring land relations in Africa; As good as it gets: politics and markets in the making of Uganda’s Land Act, 1998; Men behaving badly: a narrative of land reform; Land in the city: the role of law in reforming urban land markets.