Daniel Fitzpatrick (Australian National University) and Andrew McWilliam (ANU) have posted Bright-Line Fever: Simple Legal Rules and Complex Property Customs Among the Fataluku of East Timor (Law and Society Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Recent law and economics scholarship has
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Fitzpatrick on First Possession
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Daniel Fitzpatrick (Australian National University) has posted The Relative Resilience of Property: First Possession and Order without Law in East Timor on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:Much of the recent literature on customary property relations in sub-Saharan Africa has highlighted underlying…
Fitzpatrick on the Benefits of Complex Property Rules in Frontier Societies
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Daniel Fitzpatrick (Australia National University) has posted First Possession at the Frontier: Property and the Problem of Social Order on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:Information cost theories of property suggest a baseline preference for bright-line rules of first possession as interpretive…
The Prosecution of War Crimes Under Australian Law
Ben Saul, University of Sydney, Faculty of Law, has published “Prosecuting War Crimes at Balibo Under Australian Law: The Killing of Five Journalists in East Timor by Indonesia,” at 31 Sydney Law Review 83 (2009). Here is the abstract.
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Program in New York on Responding to Rule-of-Law Challenges
The American Society of International Law’s Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group; The International Law Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; The United States Institute of Peace, International Network to Promote the Rule…