1st Edition
Customary Property and the Rule of Law Informal Housing and Natural Resource Conflict in Latin America
Introduction
Chapter 1: Property, Social Norms, and the Rule of Law
Chapter 2: Informal Housing and How Land Titling Policies Have Failed
Chapter 3: Customary Property and Mining Natural Resource Conflicts
Chapter 4: Mining Natural Resource Conflicts and a Potential Path to Soothe Social Unrest
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Stages in a Mining Project
Appendix 2: Stakeholders in the Mining Cases
Appendix 3: Technical Information on the Mining Cases
Appendix 4: Economic Obligations under a Mining Concession and Communities Participation Right
Biography
Guillermo Jose Arribas Irazola is a professor of law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where he has taught property law for over ten years. He obtained his law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Law School, and holds a Masters of Laws (LL.M.) and a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) from Yale Law School. In 2015, he published his first book (Property: A Path Towards Macondo) and has published various articles in property-related topics in legal journals in different countries (Peru, Spain, and the United States of America). His research focuses on property, human behavior, and how extra legal entitlements and the legal system are intertwined. The author has also worked as legal advisor in different project finances in Latin America. Professor Arribas is a member of SELA, the Yale Law School faculty-centered seminar, which promotes independent, interdisciplinary, and theoretical legal research in Latin America.
