Bernadette Atuahene

Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law

Professor of Law

565 W. Adams St.

Chicago, IL 60661-3691

United States

http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/batuahene/

Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation

750 N. Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, IL 60611

United States

  • Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law

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1.

Legal Title to Land as an Intervention Against Urban Poverty in Developing Nations

George Washington International Law Review, Vol. 36, pp. 1109, 2004
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 27 Oct 2005
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Land title, land registration, poverty, Peru, South Africa, Philippines, urban poverty, urban, concentration of poverty

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Taxed Out: Illegal Property Tax Assessments and the Epidemic of Tax Foreclosures in Detroit

Bernadette Atuahene & Christopher Berry, Taxed out: Illegal Property Tax Assessments and the Epidemic of Tax Foreclosures in Detroit, 9 UC IRVINE L. REV. 847 (2019).
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 06 May 2022
Bernadette Atuahene and Christopher R. Berry
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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property, Detroit, property tax, housing

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From Reparation to Restoration: Moving Beyond Restoring Property Rights to Restoring Political and Economic Visibility

Southern Methodist University Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 4, 2007
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Oct 2006
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Reparation, restorative justice, restoration, restitution, invisibility, social contract, property, legitimacy, historical injustice, theft, distributive justice, past theft, apartheid, South Africa, land reform, land restitution

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The Effectiveness of International Legislative Responses to the Helms-Burton Act

Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico, Vol. 69, p. 809, 2000
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Oct 2005
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Embargo, Helms Burton Act, Cuba, EU, European Union, Mexico, Canada, economic sanctions

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Land Titling: A Mode of Privatization with the Potential to Deepen Democracy

St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 50, p. 761, 2006
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Oct 2006
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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land titling, informal, property, ownership, democracy, formalization, De Soto, Peru, privatization, formalization, poverty, third world, developing

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Stategraft

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 91, No. 2, 2018
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2018
Bernadette Atuahene and Timothy R. Hodge
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law and Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
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Detroit, property, corruption, local government

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Things Fall Apart: The Illegitimacy of Property Rights in the Context of Past Property Theft

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, 2009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2010
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Property Rights & the Demands of Transformation

Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2010
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 06 May 2022
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Property, dispossession, restitution, South Africa, transitional justice, human rights

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The Long-Term Economic Benefit of Financial Compensation Distributed by the South African Land Restitution Commission

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Jun 2010
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Property & Transitional Justice: The Collected Works of Professor Bernadette Atuahene

Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 31, No. 765, 2010, UCLA Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 27, 2010, Arizona Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 829, 2009, Southern Methodist University Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 1419, 2007
Number of pages: 184 Posted: 10 Oct 2010
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Property, Transitional Justice, South Africa, Apartheid, Colonialism, Human Rights, Legitimacy, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Instability

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Property and Transitional Justice

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 58, 2010
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 06 May 2022
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Transitional Justice, property, human rights

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South Africa's Land Reform Crisis: Eliminating the Legacy of Apartheid

Foreign Affairs, Volume 90, Number 4 (2011)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 24 Dec 2014
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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South Africa, land reform, land rights, property, apartheid, colonialism, property theft, African National Congress, ANC, land redistribution, liberation bargain

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The Importance of Conversation in Transitional Justice: A Study of Land Restitution in South Africa

Law and Social Inquiry, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2014, Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2015-01
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2015
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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South Africa, property, land rights, land theft, land restitution, apartheid, colonialism, transitional justice

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Paying for the Past: Redressing the Legacy of Land Dispossession in South Africa

Law & Society Review, Volume 45, Number 4 (2011)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Dec 2014
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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South Africa, property, land dispossession, land restitution, apartheid, colonialism, land rights

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Corruption 2.0

Bernadette Atuahene, Corruption 2.0, 98 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 107 (forthcoming 2023).
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2022
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law
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stategraft, corruption, illegality, property tax assessment, foreclosure, court fees, social movements

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Takings as a Sociolegal Concept: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Involuntary Property Loss

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 12, pp. 171-197, 2016
Posted: 18 Nov 2016
Bernadette Atuahene
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago-Kent College of Law

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