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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">School of Culture, History and Language</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">ANU College of Asia and the Pacific</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Department of Pacific and Asian History
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<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">2015 Seminar Series</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Monday, 23 November 2015, 3-4.30 pm
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Seminar Room B, Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Attempts at Land Law Reform in Solomon Islands, 1950s – 1990s</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Final oral presentation</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Joseph. D Foukona</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Successive colonial administrations and independent governments in the Solomon Islands have devoted considerable energy to the task
of bringing customary land into the formal state system as registered estates. In this final thesis seminar, I discuss the chronology of land law reform in Solomon Islands from the 1950s to 1990s. To meet its central goal during this period of driving economic
growth, the state used legal reform as its principal tool to promote social and economic change. It was in this context that the state made land law reform attempts, which were grounded on the transplant of legal innovations from elsewhere. The logic for these
attempts was to promote tenure security in order to facilitate economic development. I will draw on the law and development discourse as a theoretical framework to analyse how the state’s land reform attempts sought to promote development. I suggest that the
design of such attempts was based on the intuition of particular actors as well as their capacity to influence proceedings.
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Joseph D. Foukona</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333">is a law lecturer at the University of the South Pacific. He is from Solomon Islands and currently completing his PhD at ANU.</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Seminar enquiries: Andrew De Lisle <</span><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="mailto:andrew.delisle@anu.edu.au" target="_blank" title="mailto:andrew.delisle@anu.edu.au
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