Legal Aspects of Property and Land Use
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this advanced look at property and land-use law, built around American legal doctrine but constantly checked against comparative material from India and South Africa. The emphasis sits on policy rather than black-letter law: why certain property rules get chosen, what land-use regulations are meant to accomplish, and how the same problems get handled differently across legal systems. American property law gets the most attention because of its influence on international development practice, but the non-western case studies are treated in real depth rather than as brief asides. Course materials include the full syllabus, reading assignments, and topic outlines used in MIT's own classroom version. No enrollment or certificate is offered since this is a self-paced OpenCourseWare release, but all readings and assignments are freely downloadable under MIT's open license.