The course deals with legal frameworks that give public institutions, and sometimes also private people, the right to acquire land through compulsory purchase. The following main aspects will be dealt with in the course.
• Fundamental motives to permit compulsory purchases. Different situations where compulsory purchases can be realised. Effects if compulsory purchases should not be possible. Compensation rules from economic and legal points of view. Value concepts and their relevance in cases of compensation. Profit-sharing versus compensation for damage.
• Principles for the permission process; judicial or administrative handling of the permission process, material conditions for compulsory purchases and taking possession. Applicable legislation in different situations.
• Valuation problems in different compensation situations. Methods for estimation of compensation for encroachment and compulsory purchases.
The overall aim of the course is to give understanding of rules for the permission process as well as which compensation that should be paid when compulsory purchases or other limitation of dispositions of land and real property is realised.
At the end of the course the students are expected to be able to:
• Explain why compulsory purchases can be legitimised.
• Describe the contents of and in what situations different types of law shall be used.
• Explain and compare the legislation’s different compensation principles.
• Describe the conditions under which each compensation method can be applied and select relevant principles to obtain the solutions for valuation and compensation problems.
• Explain different value concepts for real property and the relation between them.
• Apply different compensation rules and principles and calculate the compensation in practical cases.
• Identify the principles for compulsory acquisition and compensation in other legal systems from scientific literature and legislation and present the findings in a report.