Daniel Fitzpatrick has written widely on land law and policy in the Third World, with a particular focus on recovery from disaster or conflict. He was the UN's land rights adviser in post-conflict East Timor (2000) and post-tsunami Aceh (2005-6). In 2002 he published Land Claims in East Timor (230 pp., Asia Pacific Press), a work described by Sir Gerard Brennan -- former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia -- as "profound academic scholarship". In 2007 he won the Hart Article Prize from the UK Socio-Legal Association for Evolution and Chaos in Property Rights Systems: the Third World Tragedy of Contested Access, Yale Law Journal (Vol. 115, pp. 996-1048 March 2006)).
Dr Fitzpatrick is the author of the UN’s Guidelines on Land Programming after Natural Disasters (In Press). He has undertaken professional consultancies on law and development with AusAID, the Asian Development Bank, Oxfam International, the OECD, UNDP and UN-Habitat. His work with AusAID includes co-authoring the 2008 Making Land Work report for its Pacific Land Program. He has been a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (2006-09), a Visiting Professor at the University of Muenster (2002), and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto (2007).
