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Roy L. Prosterman, J.D.
Rural Development Institute
1411 Fourth Avenue Suite 910
Seattle, Washington USA 98101
(206) 528-5880 / Fax (206) 528-5881
royp@rdiland.org
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
Roy L. Prosterman, J.D., has 34 years of research,
consulting, and teaching experience on legal and general policy aspects
of land tenure reform, land market development, and other rural development
issues. His field research and technical assistance experience in more
than 30 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Latin
America has given him a comprehensive understanding of rural land issues
and the interaction among rural land, financial, and labor markets. Professor
Prosterman has successfully completed assignments with USAID, the World
Bank, UNDP, and many foreign governments. His technical service experience
includes helping to write land tenure reform legislation that clarifies
land rights and responsibilities and encourages optimal land use; helping
design modern effective land records systems; designing and advocating
legal frameworks that support land market development; helping develop
laws and institutions for reallocating land and resolving land conflicts;
helping draft legislation that protects access rights for the rural poor,
indigenous populations, and women; helping design and advocating procedures
for reorganizing state and collective farms into smaller and more efficient
farm units; helping establish and implement procedures for initiating
and sequencing land market liberalization reforms; and evaluating the
effect and viability of land reform, tenure security, land registration
and titling, and land market stimulation programs and projects.
EDUCATION
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1958, magna cum laude. Board of Editors, Harvard Law Review.
B.A., University of Chicago, 1954, general honors.
GEOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE
Indonesia, Russia, Kyrgyz Republic, Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Taiwan, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Portugal.
REPRESENTATIVE PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1965-present, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle.
Joined the faculty of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle in August 1965 as Assistant Professor of Law, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1968 and to Professor in 1970. Named the University's first John and Marguerite Walker Corbally Professor in Public Service in 1991. Director of the Law School’s LL.M. (post-doctoral) program in Law of Sustainable International Development. Teaching and research primarily in areas of law and development, property law, and international law.
1981-present, President, Rural Development Institute, Seattle, WA.
Field research, legal research, social science research, project work, technical assistance, and writing related to wide range of rural land tenure issues. Founded the Institute in 1981. As senior legal consultant and manager, Professor Prosterman has participated in the following representative assignments:
- August 1987 to Present. China.
Rural Land System Project. PRC State Council Development Research
Center; PRC Ministry of Agriculture; and China Institute for Reform
and Development. Extensive and ongoing legal, policy, and project assistance
and evaluation services on rural land system reforms, long-term land
use rights system reforms, land contracting issues, and miscellaneous
experimental land reforms. Supported by the World Bank, UNDP, and private
foundations.
- August 2000 to November 2000.
Indonesia. Land Law Reform. USAID and Checchi Consulting Corporation.
Initial legal technical assistance to the National Land Agency on revising
the Basic Agrarian Law (land law) and drafting five other new or revised
laws or regulations: Law on Land Ownership; Law on Acquisition of Land
for a Public Purpose; Law on Land Redistribution; Law on Land Registration;
and Law on Land Use Planning. Included field research on customary law
and gender issues related to land.
- February 2001 to present. Indonesia.
Land Law Reform. USAID PEG Grant. Providing legal technical assistance
to the National Land Agency on revising the Basic Agrarian Law (land
law) and drafting five other new or revised laws or regulations: Law
on Land Ownership; Law on Acquisition of Land for a Public Purpose;
Law on Land Redistribution; Law on Land Registration; and Law on Land
Use Planning. Also providing training on legislative drafting techniques
to government officials.
- August 2000 to present. Indonesia.
Consultation to the Indonesian State Land Agency on the drafting of
a new Land Code to replace the Basic Agrarian Law of 1960 and related
laws. Served as Senior Legal Consultant in conducting fieldwork
in East and Central Java, followed by presentation before the State
Land Agency (BPN) on findings and recommendations. Ongoing involvement
in commentary on draft amendments and laws related to the revision of
the BAL of 1960. Supported by private foundations.
- November 1998 to July 2000.
Indonesia. Land Law Reform. Private foundation supported. Ongoing
research and legal assistance to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry
of Land on revising the Basic Agrarian Law (land law), drafting a Law
on Ownership, and developing a decree to establish a garden-plot distribution
program for landless families.
- November 1996 to March 1997.
Indonesia. Land Tenure Assessment. Agridec and USAID. Analysis
of key land tenure problems and their relationships to sustainable development
in Indonesia.
- 1989 to 1991. Indonesia. Land Reform Pilot Project.
Private foundation supported. Research and legal and policy assistance
on a land reform pilot project for Indonesian NGOs and government officials.
- March 2000 to March 2001. India. Land Reform and Land
Markets Study. National Institute for Reform and Development (NIRD,
Hyderabad, India). Legal and policy study on rural land reform and land
markets in four Indian states. Supported by private foundations and
NIRD.
- March 2001 to Present. India: A Revised Agenda
for Land Reform. Indian National Institute for Rural Development.
Research and consultancy services on improving the rural poor’s
access to land in selected states. Includes land legislation review
and analysis, land administration assessments, rural household surveys,
case studies, gender impact analysis, sharing workshops, reports, and
policy maker consultations. Private foundation supported.
- March 1998 to July 1998. Legal Impediments to Effective
Rural Land Relations in Europe and Central Asia: A Comparative Perspective.
World Bank Technical Paper #436 (1999). Research and report on the
construction of a methodology for officials in Europe and Central Asia
to assess the extent to which legal and institutional environments effectively
support rural land relations.
- August 1997 to February 2000. Russia. Policy and
Legal Advice on Land Privatization and Land Market Development. USAID/Moscow.
Consultant services on policy, legal and administrative issues of farm
reorganization and land market creation in Russia.
- January 1996 to Present. Moldova. Land and Real
Estate Markets. Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc. and USAID/Washington.
Consultant services on legal and regulatory issues in the development
of land and real estate markets in Moldova.
- May 1995 to July 1995. Ukraine. Implementation
of a Technical Assistance Program to Facilitate the Development of Land
Markets. USAID/Washington. Consultant services on policy, legal
and regulatory environment of land privatization in Ukraine.
- September 1994 to August 1996. Kyrgyzstan. Policy and Legal Advice to the Ministry of Agriculture of Kyrgyzstan. The Eurasia Foundation/Washington. Policy and legal advice to the Ministry of Agriculture of Kyrgyzstan.
1959-1965, Attorney, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York. Practiced chiefly in international, commercial and antitrust litigation. Included overseas assignments.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
Books
Legal Impediments to Effective Rural Land Relations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Comparative Perspective. Editor with Timothy M. Hanstad. Washington D.C.: World Bank, 1999.
Agrarian Reform and Grassroots Development: Ten Case Studies. Editor with Mary N. Temple and Hanstad. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1990.
“China: A Fieldwork-Based Appraisal of the Household Responsibility System, with Recommendations for the Future,” “Introduction” and “Conclusion: Land Reform in Past and Future” chapters in Prosterman, Hanstad and Temple, eds., Agrarian Reform and Grassroots Development: Ten Case Studies, Curry Foundation policy study (Lynne Rienner, 1990) (with Hanstad and Temple).
Land Reform and Democratic Development. With Jeffrey M. Riedinger. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1987. A book dealing with land reform and rural development in a democratic setting.
“A Fieldwork-Based Appraisal of Individual Peasant Farming in Russia,” chapter in Van Atta, ed., The Farmer Threat: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Post-Soviet Russia, (Westview Press, 1993) (with Hanstad).Journal Articles (recent)
“Land Tenure, Food Security and Rural Development in China” Development vol. 44, no. 4 (2001).
“Implementation of 30-Year Land Use Rights for Farmers Under China’s 1998 Land Management Law: An Analysis and Recommendations Based on a 17-Province Survey” Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3 (September 2000).
“Land Reform in China: The Two-Field System Experiment in Pingdu,” Social Sciences in China, Vol. 20, No.1 (1999) (with Tim Hanstad and Li Ping).
“Large-Scale Farming in China: An Appropriate Policy?,” Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 28, No. 1 (1998) (with Hanstad and Li).
“Prospects for Family Farming in Russia,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 49, No. 8 (December 1997) (with Robert Mitchell and Brad Rorem).
“Can China Feed Itself?” Scientific American, November 1996, Vol. 275, No. 5 (with Hanstad and Li)."Larger Homestead Plots as Land Reform? International Experience and Analysis from Karnataka," Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 29, July 20,2002. (with Tim Hanstad and Jennifer Brown).
“Large-Scale Farming in China: An Appropriate Policy?” [in Chinese], 6 China Rural Survey, November 1996, Serial No. 12 (with Hanstad and Li).
“Some Proposals on China’s Rural Land System Reform,” [in Chinese], China Reform, August 1995 (with Hanstad and Li).Other Published Reports (recent)
Implementation of the 30-Year Land Use Rights for Farmers Under China’s 1998 Land Management Law: An Analysis and Recommendations Based on a 17 Province Survey, Rural Development Institute Reports on Foreign Aid and Development, No. 105, March 2000 (with Brain Schwarzwalder and Ye Jianping).
Legal Aid Centers in Rural Russia: Helping People Improve Their Lives, Rural Development Institute Reports on Foreign Aid and Development, No. 102, February 2000 (with Gregory Mohrman, and Leonard Rolfes, Jr.).
A Vision for Agricultural Land Reform in Russia, Rural Development Institute Reports on Foreign Aid and Development, No. 100, November 1999 (with Leonard Rolfes and Jennifer Duncan).
Agricultural Land Markets in Lithuania, Poland, and Romania: Implications for Accession to the European Union, Rural Development Institute Reports on Foreign Aid and Development, No. 99, October 1999 (with Leonard Rolfes).
Large Scale Farming in China: An Appropriate Policy? Rural Development Institute Reports on Foreign Aid and Development, No. 90, July 1996
(with Tim Hanstad and Li Ping)
Land Reform: A Revised Agenda for the 21st Century, RDI Report, No. 108, April 2000 (with Tim Hanstad).
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