Professional Affiliation
Professor of Law, Monash University, Australia
Expert Bio
Daniel Fitzpatrick writes on land tenure in contexts of climate change and natural disasters. A past winner of the Hart Article Prize, Professor Fitzpatrick has been a Global Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law, and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto. From 2012 to 2016 he held a prestigious Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. Professor Fitzpatrick’s extensive public policy experience includes acting as the UN's land rights adviser in post-conflict East Timor (2000) and post-tsunami Aceh (2005-6). He is the primary author of the UN guidelines on addressing land issues after natural disasters, and is a member of the expert advisory committee for the Platform on Disaster Displacement. His most recent policy work for the World Bank is on Land Tenure and Disaster Risk Management in Situations of Fragility, Conflict and Violence.
Expertise
- Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
- Disaster Management
- Global Governance
- International Development
- Migration
- Africa
- Asia
Wilson Center Project
Tipping Points: Land Tenure, Climate Change and Human Mobility in Situations of Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Project Summary
The project aims to improve governance responses to human mobility in global contexts of climate change and natural disasters. The focus is land tenure in situations of fragility, conflict and violence. The project applies concepts from studies in adaptive governance to land tenure and human mobility, with a view to reducing adverse consequences such as violent conflict and state fragility. The project contributes to policy frameworks on climate adaptation, disaster risk management and the rule of law.
Major Publications
- Law, Property and Natural Disasters: Adaptive Perspectives from the Global South, Routledge 2021, ISBN: 978-1032008141
- Property Rights and Climate Migration: Adaptive Governance in the South Pacific, 15 Regulation & Governance 1, 2021
- Evolution and Chaos in Property Rights Systems: the Third World Tragedy of Contested Access, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115 (2006): pp. 996-1048
