Browsing Journals by Subject "Ownership"
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Finding property in new places – property in cyber and outer space
(2015)The fields of virtual property and property in space are both new areas of property law that could not have been envisaged a hundred years ago. In both of these new fields, things and other objects of property are located ... -
Green Paper on Land Reform: Overview and Challenges
(2014)Originating as a submission made to the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform by the Centre for Constitutional Rights in 2011, this paper provides an overview of some of the main aspects and key features that ... -
The in vitro embryo and the law: the ownership issue and a response to Robinson
(PER/PELJ, 2020)In 2012 the Minister of Health made the Regulations Relating to the Artificial Fertilisation of Persons, which provide that the woman who intends to be made pregnant with an in vitro embryo owns such an embryo and can ... -
Property rights in space: moving the goal posts so the players don't notice
(2016)Elsewhere in "Rethinking Terra Nullius and Property in Space", I have argued that due to the changing circumstances of access to space by private entities rather than governments, the current legal situation with regard ... -
Rethinking terra nullius and property law in space
(2015)With a new era dawning with regard to access to space and an increase in the number of nations capable of reaching and exploiting space, the field of space law as a whole needs to be re-evaluated. One such area where current ... -
South African mineral law: a historical overview of the state’s regulatory power regarding the exploitation of minerals.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002 [MPRDA] acknowledges that the country’s mineral resources belong to the nation. The State is subsequently appointed as custodian of these resources. As ... -
Unpacking the public trust doctrine: A journey into foreign territory
(North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Faculty of Law, 2010)The past decade has borne witness to the transformation of South Africa's natural resources law with the introduction of a new legal concept, that of "public trusteeship", to South African jurisprudence. The concept of ...