Register here by 23 May 2024
You are invited to join us for a discussion and launch of the book Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa. The editors, STIAS Fellows Olaf Zenker (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), Cherryl Walker (Stellenbosch University) and Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel (Stellenbosch University) will be in conversation with Distinguished Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University, Jonathan Jansen.
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. The book is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
