The Expropriation Act poses risks to property rights and economic stability. While some see it as a tool for land reform, ...

As South Africa commemorates Human Rights Month, the debate over land reform and the Expropriation Act intensifies, raising ...

In this essay, I analyze the nationalization of large copper mines during Salvador Allende’s socialist government in Chile in the 1970s. This is one of the earliest cases “nationalization without ...

The passage of the Expropriation Act in South Africa has set the air thick with tension, a moment that peels open the past to reveal its jagged edges. A history that never ended, only submerged ...

I’m a professor of law with a keen interest in this area of the law, and recently edited a book on land expropriation in South Africa by leading experts. My view is that an expropriation act ...

Simon, a case concerning the scope of immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s (FSIA) expropriation exception. 1 On February 21, 2025, the Court held that the Simon plaintiffs ...

The Expropriation Act (the Act), recently signed into law by President Ramaphosa, has sparked mixed reactions from various groupings across the country. Some, probably influenced by certain ...

According to the Act, when gathering information for expropriation, the expropriating authority must establish whether unregistered rights over the property in question exist.' The Expropriation ...