A Special Certificate Is Not a Second Title: Rethinking Uganda’s Land Fraud Debate

Uganda’s debate on Special Certificates of Title has intensified amid legitimate concerns about fraud, overlapping interests and cases in which proprietors allegedly declare titles lost while the originals remain with purchasers, lenders or other third parties. Yet there is a danger that, in confronting abuse, we mistake the legal mechanism for the problem it is being used to facilitate. A Special…