Image of a slum area in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Dimrill on Flickr.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
MIT Course Number
11.493
As Taught In
Fall 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Description
This course is designed to offer an advanced introduction to key legal issues that arise in the area of property and land-use in American law, with a comparative focus on the laws of India and South Africa. The focus of the course is not on law itself, but on the policy implications of various rules, doctrines and practices which are covered in great detail. Legal rules regulating property are among the most fundamental to American, and most other, economies and societies. The main focus is on American property and land use law due to its prominence in international development policy and practice as a model, though substantial comparative legal materials are also introduced from selected non-western countries such as India and South Africa.