Yale Law Journal – Navassa: Property, Sovereignty, and the Law of the Territories

Yale Law Journal – Navassa: Property, Sovereignty, and the Law of the Territories

abstract. The United States acquired its first overseas territory—Navassa Island, near Haiti—by conceptualizing it as a kind of property to be owned, rather than a piece of sovereign territory to be governed. The story of Navassa shows how competing conceptions of property and sovereignty are an important and underappreciated part of the law of the…

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