Land tenure administration : towards a regulatory backdrop to land tenure in Iraq

Al-ossmi, Laith Hady and Ahmed, V 2016, 'Land tenure administration : towards a regulatory backdrop to land tenure in Iraq' , Land Use Policy, 57 (22) , pp. 250-264.

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Abstract

This paper discusses some of those aspects of land law in the Iraqi case that might have a direct bearing onnational development or retardation. In so doing it will follow a reviewing to the historical-developmentalapproach to questions of legal doctrine, thereby pointing in the direction to which the Iraqi land legaldevelopment is proceeding. This paper introduce background reviewing, and discuss the Iraqi’s key insti-tutional & regulatory framework, and introducing the administrative authorities of land and giving briefdetails of its hierarchy and responsibilities in this respect. Accordingly, this paper explores the Iraqi casewithin 5 different periods of time to review all those doctrines and decrees that shaped the pre-modernlaws of land and land rights by focusing on the main administrative progresses during the implementa-tion of the Iraqi national development. The discussion progresses to deal with the Iraqi current crisis inorder to assess the role of Iraqi Land Authorities (ILAs) focusing on their efficiency under the influenceof the recent situations. The paper also highlighted a set of the Iraq’s complex critical factors, which arebelieved to be the fundamental considerations for implementing the land tenure and its security andsaving the land users’ rights in the Iraqi current case.

Item Type:	Article
Schools:	Schools > School of the Built Environment
Journal or Publication Title:	Land Use Policy
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0264-8377
Related URLs:	Publication
Funders:	laith Al-ossmi
Depositing User:	Dr Laith Hady Al-ossmi
Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2016 09:44
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2022 17:53
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/39239

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