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A Constitutional Right to Property? (2020)
Book Chapter
Allen, T. (2020). A Constitutional Right to Property?. In M. Elliot, & K. Hughes (Eds.), Common Law Constitutional Rights. Hart Publishing

Constitutional Rights in the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1893 (2018)
Journal Article
Allen, T. (2018). Constitutional Rights in the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1893. The Journal of Legal History, 39(2), 187-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2018.1484324

In 1893, Prime Minister Gladstone introduced the second Irish home rule bill in parliament. The bill broke with tradition in Britain and the empire, as it included provisions from the bill of rights of the United States. Its significance was clear at... Read More about Constitutional Rights in the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1893.

The Purposes of Land Settlement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1914: Drawing Paths through the Weeds (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, T. (2017). The Purposes of Land Settlement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1914: Drawing Paths through the Weeds. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45(6), 894-922. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2017.1395585

This article examines the programme of land surveying and registration that was undertaken by the British-led administration of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the period 1898–1914. The Legal Secretary, Edgar Bonham Carter, stated that programme was the... Read More about The Purposes of Land Settlement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1914: Drawing Paths through the Weeds.

The Revival of the Right to Property in India (2015)
Journal Article
Allen, T. (2015). The Revival of the Right to Property in India. Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 10(01), 23-52. https://doi.org/10.1017/asjcl.2015.4

Over the last six decades, the Supreme Court of India has created and re-created a right to property from very weak textual sources, despite constitutional declarations calling for social revolution, numerous amendments to reverse key judgments, and... Read More about The Revival of the Right to Property in India.

The Right to Property. (2014)
Book Chapter
Allen, T. (2014). The Right to Property. In R. Dixon, & T. Ginsburg (Eds.), Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia (250-276). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781002704.00018

Eminent domain - the power to take private property for public use - is an inherent aspect of sovereignty. However, the institution of private property would have little meaning if governments expropriated property without restraint. Hence, most cons... Read More about The Right to Property..

Legal Principles, Political Processes and Cultural Property (2012)
Book Chapter
Allen, T. (2012). Legal Principles, Political Processes and Cultural Property. In G. Scarre, & R. Coningham (Eds.), Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge University Press

The Right to Property (2011)
Book Chapter
Allen, T. (2011). The Right to Property. In T. Ginsburg, & R. Dixon (Eds.), Comparative Constitutional Law (504-518). Edward Elgar Publishing

Liberalism, Social Democracy and the Value of Property under the European Convention on Human Rights (2010)
Journal Article
Allen, T. (2010). Liberalism, Social Democracy and the Value of Property under the European Convention on Human Rights. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 59(4), 1055-1078. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020589310000448

In most of Europe, expropriation must comply with the standards set under European human rights law. Article 1 of the First Protocol (‘P1-1’) to the European Convention on Human Rights declares that ‘every natural or legal person is entitled to the p... Read More about Liberalism, Social Democracy and the Value of Property under the European Convention on Human Rights.

'Restitution and Transitional Justice in the European Court of Human Rights' (2007)
Journal Article
Allen, T. (2007). 'Restitution and Transitional Justice in the European Court of Human Rights'. The Columbia journal of European law, 13(1), 1-46

This Article examines the response of the European Court of Human Rights to claims for the restitution of property that was unlawfully or unjustly taken during a period of authoritarian rule. It demonstrates that, with some exceptions, it has not sup... Read More about 'Restitution and Transitional Justice in the European Court of Human Rights'.