The Right to Property and Compulsory Land Acquisition in Ghana: A Human Rights Perspective

Using a human rights-based approach and Ghana as a case study, this article examines the scope and content of the right to property in relation to compulsory land acquisition under international law. It argues that while the exact frontiers of the right to property remain quite uncharted at the global level the vacuum has been filled by the regional human rights systems and soft law. In the context of Ghana, the Constitutional protection of the right to property and quite elaborate rules to be followed during compulsory acquisition have not translated into revision of the compulsory acquisition laws, which remain largely incoherent and inconsistent with the requirements of the Constitution and international human rights law.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  African Journal of International and Comparative Law

• Publication date

  2019-02-04

• Fields of study

  Law, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3366/AJICL.2019.0261
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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