AI1506 Land Law 7.5 credits

The course covers legislation relating to real property formation, joint facilities, utilities (pipelines, powerlines etc.), public roads, railways, and other infrastructure. The course is designed as a comprehensive survey of the regulatory structure and the content of the legal provisions.

The overall objective of this course is that the participants independently, based on existing legislation, shall be able to analyze and solve practical problems of property formation and assignment of legal rights, both in situations where the parties agree as well as where compulsory legal provisions shall apply.

This means that the course participants after completion, inter alia, should be able to:

- Identify and evaluate various legal solutions to practical problem situations related to land use, property formation, and legal rights in land.

- Identify and evaluate various legal solutions to practical problem situations related to the establishment and management of common or joint facilities.

- Identify the relevant formal and material provisions in connectin to property formation and joint facility procedures.

- Explain the formal and material provisions in connection to property definition and regarding legalisation of earlier so-called private land divisions.

- Explain the basic rules of compensation at property formation and other types of compulsory property acquisition measures.

- Describe the design of relevant public decision procedures in matters of planning, land use permissions, compulsory property acquisition, and compensation.

For single course students:

Completed upper secondary education and university studies of at least 120 credits (hp), including 60 credits (hp) in law, real estate planning, real estate development or built environment including real estate planning or equivalent. Documented proficiency in Swedish B and English A, or equivalent.

For KTH programme students:

Real Estate Planning (AI1504), or equivalent knowledge.

The course literature will be announced on the course's homepage at least four weeks before the course starts.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• TEN1 - Examination, 7.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

TEN1 - Written examination 7.5 credits. Grading scale A-F

The final grade is determined by the result from the written examination.

Peter Ekbäck

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.