The Monkey Cage | “The Most Litigious People in the World”
This is clearly a case of property rights gone awry:
As things now stand, approximately 10,000 cases have been filed and another 20,000 or so await filing. That’s 30,000 cases for 18,000 Palauans – quite a handsome ratio. And that’s not just because a few Palauans are filing a lot of cases, for one estimate is that 99 percent of Palauans are involved in land claims.
What’s fascinating is why whatever common-law system of explicit property rights they imposed could not approximate the traditional system that was in place.
