The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories /

• Main Author: Memea Kruse, Line-Noue (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political science.; International organization.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; Governance and Government.; International Organization.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .

This book is a researched study of land issues in American Sāmoa that analyzes the impact of U.S. colonialism and empire building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Carefully tracing changes in land laws up to the present, this volume also draws on a careful examination of legal traditions,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Sāmoa and Traditional Land Tenure
• 3. American International Expansion
• 4. US Naval Administration of American Sāmoa
• 5. Ex Proprio Vigore and the Insular Cases
• 6. American Sāmoan Legal History: 1900-1941
• 7. Individually Owned Lands and Communal Land Tenure
• 8. Retention of Communal Lands
• 9. Legal and Political Futures for American Sāmoa
• 10. Conclusion.