Land tenure administration: Towards a regulatory backdrop to land tenure in Iraq

This paper discusses some of those aspects of land law in the Iraqi case that might have a direct bearing on national development or retardation. In so doing it will follow a reviewing to the historical-developmental approach to questions of legal doctrine, thereby pointing in the direction to which the Iraqi land legal development is proceeding. This paper introduce background reviewing, and discuss the Iraqi's key institutional & regulatory framework, and introducing the administrative authorities of land and giving brief details of its hierarchy and responsibilities in this respect. Accordingly, this paper explores the Iraqi case within 5 different periods of time to review all those doctrines and decrees that shaped the pre-modern laws of land and land rights by focusing on the main administrative progresses during the implementation of the Iraqi national development. The discussion progresses to deal with the Iraqi current crisis in order to assess the role of Iraqi Land Authorities (ILAs) focusing on their efficiency under the influence of the recent situations. The paper also highlighted a set of the Iraq's complex critical factors, which are believed to be the fundamental considerations for implementing the land tenure and its security and saving the land users' rights in the Iraqi current case. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.