Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation

Experts on property law, land reform and social justice debate constitutional change and future of redistributive justice in South Africa.

This book will appeal to scholars, students, policymakers and readers interested in the contribution of land reform and constitutional law to redistributive justice. An interdisciplinary team of experts, united in their commitment to redistributive justice, explore the complexity of issues in critical, constructive and creative ways.Speeding up land reform through a constitutional amendment that would explicitly permit the expropriation of land without compensation has dominated legal and political-policy debates in South Africa in recent years. Taking this politically and emotionally charged issue as its starting point, this volume offers both expert commentary on this issue from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and also fresh ideas on how to advance the redistributive transformation that South Africa so urgently needs. It brings critically important debates around transformative property law, the need for diversified land justice and the possibilities of alternative forms of redistribution into productive conversation with each other. While grounded in the complex realities of South Africa's past and present, the volume speaks to concerns that resonate in many contexts in the Global South and beyond. It will appeal to scholars, students, policymakers and general readers concerned with both the theory and practice of redistributive justice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.