Bernadette Atuahene
Faculty Fellow
Joint appointment
Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Education
J.D., Yale Law School; M.P.A., Harvard University
Bio
Bernadette Atuahene is Associate Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and American Bar Foundation Faculty Fellow. She earned her J.D. at Yale Law School in 2002, her M.P.A. at Harvard…
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Research focus
Law and international development, particularly the dispossession and restitution of property rights in the developing world. Research has examined the challenges faced by transitional democracies that provide compensation for past property dispossession as well as how land titling programs can best address urban poverty.
Projects
- The Effects of Land Restitution in South Africa: A Qualitative Study
- Latest finding: Feb 21, 2013
- Under the South African Restitution of Land Rights Act (LRA), only those dispossessed of a “right in land after 1913 as a result of a racially discriminatory law or practice” are eligible…
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Publications
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“Paying for the Past: Addressing Past Property Violations in South Africa"
- Law and Society Review
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“Property and Transitional Justice"
- UCLA Law Review Discourse
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“Property Rights and the Demands of Transformation"
- Michigan Journal of International Law
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Commentary
Mar 10, 2010
January 28, 2010 blog posting on the Huffington Post entitled Haiti: Has God Turned His Back on the Country?
Mar 10, 2010
January 4, 2010 blog posting on the Huffington Post entitle We Need to Anticipate Terrorists, Not React to Them.
Based on her Huffington Post blog post about the Nigerian terrorist, the BBC Radio…
Mar 10, 2010
Professor Atuahene's opinion editorial, Congress must do more for those evicted, was published in the Athens Banner Herald and four other regional newspapers, on October 25, 2009.
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Presentations
- Property-Induced Invisibility: When the Expropriation of Property Removes People from the Social Contract
- Oct 2012
- We Want What’s Ours: An Evaluation of South Africa’s Land Restitution Program
- Jul 2012
- Land Restitution in South Africa: Voices from Below
- Apr 2012
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Professional Service & Recognition
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Fellow, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University
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Fellow, Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership
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Editor, SSRN Transitional Justice eJournal
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International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
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Adviser to Illinois State Senator Jacqueline Collins on the legal challenge to the Illinois Act to End Atrocities and Terrorism in Sudan