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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).

Successful heirs' property reform—the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (UPHPA)—is widespread in the United States. Despite these advancements, Louisiana falls behind. Louisiana is the only state in the Deep South that has not enacted legal reform to protect heirs' property owners. Heirs' property locks many Black Americans into persistent poverty and economic oppression, eliminating generations of Black American wealth. This research note describes and examines these issues. Articulating the history of systemic legal oppression of Black land ownership, this article demonstrates how the current legal state shuns Black Americans economically and sociopolitically disadvantages them. It also examines how enacting the UPHPA could help Black Louisianans achieve economic stability.

SMALL STATES MUST IMPLEMENT OR RETAIN STRONG MEASURES TO PREVENT CONTROL OF THEIR LANDS FROM FALLING INTO FOREIGN HANDS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR NEED FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT. ONE POPULAR FORM OF RESTRICTION IS TO ALLOW FOREIGNERS TO LEASE, BUT NOT TO OWN, LAND.

This study examines the certainty of ownership of land rights under the national law on land in Indonesia. It is a type of nomative focusing on reviewing the laws governing land and ownership for Indonesian citizens and foreign nationals living in Indonesia. The approaches used were the conceptual and statute approaches to legislation. The data collected are in the form of articles of law that regulate and related to land and ownership. Qualitative method was a method used in analyzing and presenting data. The results indicate that the statutory provisions are indispensable. The ownership of land rights previously adopted from the Land Law of the West is no longer applicable to date in Indonesia. The study is recommended for those interested in the system and land law investigations to be used as reference material in the theoretical and practical review of the law.