Property and Human Rights in a Global Context

Ting Xu is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield. Jean Allain holds the Chair in Public International Law at Queen’s University, Belfast; and is Extraordinary Professor, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.

Introduction: Property and Human Rights in a Global Context
Ting Xu and Jean Allain
Part One: Shifts in the Public – Private Divide
1. Property, Human Rights and Communities
Alison Clarke
2. Cultural Property and Community Rights to Cultural Heritage
Fiona Macmillan
3. Constitutional Law, Social Justice and the Redistribution of Land Tom Allen
Part Two: The Market versus Social Justice
4. Property in Persons: Prohibiting Contemporary Slavery as a Human Right
Jean Allain
5. Property in Human Bodies, Self-Preservation and Human Rights
Elena Beltrán
6. Reconciling Lockean Copyright with the Human Right to
Leonardo Machado Pontes
7. Filling the Institutional Void Between Fundamental Rights and the Legal Purchase of Goods: What Role
for Consumocratic Law?
Martin Dumas
8. Development, Property and International Investment: The Double-edged Sword of Human Rights
Bruce Wardhaugh
9. The Reach of Human Rights
Dave Cowan and Sally Wheeler
Part Three: Community and Human Rights
10. Communal Property Rights in International Human Rights Instruments: Implications for De Facto Expropriation
Ting Xu and Wei Gong
11. Property Right to Rural Land in Ethiopia: A Human Rights Perspective
Belachew Fikre
12. Customary Land Rights, Indigenous Rights and Land Expropriation in Cameroon: Ecosystem Services as a Possible New Approach in Valuing Compensation
Walters Nsoh