Tierra y Libertad: The Social Function Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America
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Doctrine and Land Reform in Latin America*
Thomas T. Ankersent
Thomas Ruppert-
I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 70
II. LAND REFORM: THE LEGAL-HISTORICAL AND
SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT ........................................................... 72
A . Rom an O g ns ...................................................................... 73
B. Land Reform in Latin America: Historical Ongins of
Land Concentmtion ............................................................. 76
1. Pre-Colombian Land Tenure Systems ......................... 76
2. Early Colonial Land Tenure Systems:
Encomienda and Repartimiento ............. ..................... 80
3. Colonial-Era Efforts to Address Land
Concentration ............................................................... 82
4. Initial Postcolonial Land Reform Efforts .................... 85
Ill. THE SOCIAL FUNCTION DOCTRINE AS THE LEGAL BASIS FOR
LAND REFORM ................................................................................ 88
A. Competing Perspectives on the Role of Property in
Human Social Organization ............................ 88
1. The Modem Social Function Doctrine ........................ 94
2. Distinguishing the Common Law's Public Use
Doctrine and Related Concepts in the Civil Law ........ 96
B. Application of the Social Function Doctrine to Land
Reform in Latin America ...................................................... 98
* Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary, popularized the phrase tierra y
libertad [land and liberty], but the phrase originated in the writings of Ricardo Flores Mag6n.
See, e.g., Tierra y libertad, http://200.39.200.70/zapata/tierrayjibertad/tierra-ylibertad.html
(last visited Mar. 3, 2006).
t Legal Skills Professor and Director, University of Florida Joint Program in
Environmental Law and Conservation Clinic. Principal Investigator, Inside the Polygon: The
Efficacy of Community Tenure with the Western Property Paradigm. Support for this research
was made possible by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
** Research Fellow, University of Florida Center for Governmental Responsibility,
Associate Investigator, Inside the Polygon: The Efficacy of Community Tenure with the Western
Property Paradigm. Other investigators working under this research and writing grant include
Principal Investigator Dr. Grenville Barnes and Associate Investigator Gerald Mueller Riverstone,
Ph.D. candidate.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/tulev19&div=7&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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