Latin-American Land Reform: The Uses of Confiscation

Authors

Kenneth L. Karst, The Ohio State UniversityFollow

Abstract

This article examines the legislative techniques for taking land, showing their confiscatory operation. For many lawyers, the analysis would then be easily completed: confiscation is wrongful and must be condemned. Rejecting the implicit absolutism of that conclusion, this article inquires into the justifications that can be pleaded on behalf of selective confiscation as an aid in solving some of Latin America's economic and social ills.

Recommended Citation

Kenneth L. Karst, Latin-American Land Reform: The Uses of Confiscation, 63 Mich. L. Rev. 327 (1964).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol63/iss2/6