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James Ferguson

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United States of America (the)

James Ferguson is part of the 2022 1st Semester cohort at STIAS.

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Compensation through Expropriation without Compensation? Constitutional Amendment, Land Reform and the Future of Redistributive Justice in South Africa

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Compensation through Expropriation without Compensation? Constitutional Amendment, Land Reform and the Future of Redistributive Justice in South Africa

Please register here for online participation Against the backdrop of widespread perceptions that transformative constitutionalism in general and land reform in particular have fallen short of their promises to bring about redistributive justice in substantive and meaningful ways, South African public discourse has been dominated over the past few years by debates about the need to amend the property clause (section 25) of the Constitution to allow for expropriation of land without compensation.