Property and Social Resilience in Times of Conflict (PDF)

Daniel Fitzpatrick is a Reader in Law at the Australian National University, and a member of the Global Faculty at New York University School of Law. He has written widely on property theory in a law and development context, with a particular focus on natural disasters and armed conflicts. He was the UN's land rights adviser in post-conflict East Timor (2000) and post-tsunami Indonesia (2005-6). In 2007 he won the Hart Article Prize from the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association. He has published in the Yale Law Journal, the Law and Society Review, and the Yale Journal of International Law. Dr Fitzpatrick is the primary author of the UN's guidelines on addressing land issues after natural disasters. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Muenster (2002), a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (2006-09), and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto (2007).

Andrew McWilliam is a Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology at the Australian National University. He has published widely on the ethnography of Timor-Leste and eastern Indonesia including the forthcoming edited volume (with Elizabeth G.Traube) entitled, Land and Life in Timor-Leste: ethnographic essays (2011) ANU E-Press. His current research interests focus on customary land tenures and resource development, including broader issues of governance in post-conflict Timor-Leste and decentralised Indonesia. He has had visiting academic appointments and affiliations at the International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden (1998 & 2005), the Kahin Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Cornell University (2007) and Yale University (2010).