Land reform in court proceedings?
Local judges and land reform in Colombia

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.14154

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Published: Jun 5, 2024
Issue: Vol. 26 No. 2 (2024): ¿Propiedad de la Nación? Baldíos, territorios y propiedad en Colombia
Section Dossier ¿Propiedad de la Nación? Baldíos, territorios y propiedad en Colombia


Keywords: : judicial politics, political economy, rural disputes, public land, subnational politics

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Isabel Güiza-Gómez
Universidad de Notre Dame
  Santiago Hernández Carrasco
Universidad de Ginebra, Suiza

Abstract

This paper introduces the “Judges and Agrarian Reform” (JAR) dataset, which is a municipality-year panel that records allocation of 11,761 public land lots—up to approximately 260,000 hectares—to private actors through a judicial mechanism failing to check agrarian reform requirements—to wit, adverse possession. Our statistical and GIS analysis suggests that the judicial allocation of public land has had two opposing effects: access to land for landless peasants and land accumulation. We focus on the latter effect through the cases of Córdoba and Casanare. The JAR database provides novel nationwide data to explain the determinants and effects of the role of the judiciary in land reform implementation in Colombia.

Author Biography

Santiago Hernández Carrasco, Universidad de Ginebra, Suiza

Politólogo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y estudiante de la Maestría en Economía Política del Capitalismo de la Universidad de Ginebra, Suiza.

How to Cite
Güiza-Gómez, I., & Hernández Carrasco, S. . (2024). Land reform in court proceedings? : Local judges and land reform in Colombia. Estudios Socio-Jurídicos, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.14154
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