Book originated in a panel "The Engagement between Property and Human Rights in a Global Context" at the 26th World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in July 2013.-- ECIP Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.

Property, human rights and communities / Alison Clarke -- Cultural property and community rights to cultural heritage / Fiona Macmillan -- Constitutional law, social justice and the redistribution of land / Tom Allen -- Property in persons: prohibiting contemporary slavery as a human right / Jean Allain -- Property in human bodies, self-preservation and human rights / Elena Beltrán -- Reconciling lockean copyright with the human right to education / Leonardo Machado Pontes -- Filling the institutional void between fundamental rights and the legal purchase of goods : what role for consumocratic law? / Martin Dumas -- Development, property and international investment : the double-edged sword of human rights / Bruce Wardhaugh -- The reach of human rights / Dave Cowan and Sally Wheeler -- Communal property rights in international human rights instruments : implications for de facto expropriation / Ting Xu and Wei Gong -- Property right to rural land in Ethiopia : a human rights perspective / Belachew Fikre -- Customary land rights, indigenous rights and land expropriation in Cameroon : ecosystem services as a possible new approach in valuing compensation / Walters Nsoh.

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