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June 27, 2026Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Racial Justice in Land Restitution

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This review discusses land restitution and racial justice, highlighting complexities within various contexts and their implications.

Key Points

  • The review aims to explore racial justice in land restitution as a sociolegal entanglement rather than a linear process of repair.
  • Analysis of interdisciplinary research in law, sociology, and critical race studies.
  • Examination of case studies including Indigenous claims, reparations for slavery, and post-apartheid contexts.
  • Discussion of the complexities introduced by intersectionality and different scales of injustice.
  • Restitution can both enable redress and risk reproducing existing inequalities.
  • Claims of exclusive victimhood may overshadow other injustices, complicating reparative efforts.
  • The review suggests a need for a convergence of reparative and redistributive justice to better address future inequalities.

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Olaf Zenker (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a3f6871aea7db3c1953f892https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-062124-122553
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