RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE - Consulting Services



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Timothy Hanstad, J.D., LL.M.
Rural Development Institute
1411 Fourth Avenue Suite 910
Seattle, Washington USA 98101
(206) 528-5880 / Fax (206) 528-5881

KEY QUALIFICATIONS
For the past 15 years, Mr. Hanstad has been providing legal and social science research, technical assistance, and project assistance on rural land tenure reform, land titling and registration, access to land, land use planning and zoning, and land dispute resolution in developing countries. Mr. Hanstad has also provided legal, policy, and project assistance on issues concerning gender and indigenous population issues, land privatization, farm restructuring, land market liberalization, land administration institutions and rural finance. He has worked in 15 countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East on projects funded by USAID, the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, UNDP, and other donors. He has published extensively in his substantive practice areas and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington School of Law where he teaches a seminar in legal problems of international development.

EDUCATION
LL.M., University of Washington School of Law, 1994, with Honors. Coursework in land law, international development law and development economics.

J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 1988, with Honors. Board of Editors, Washington Law Review. American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Torts.

B.A., Seattle Pacific University, 1985, magna cum laude. Majors in Political Science and History. Varsity Tennis, Captain. 1985 Male Athlete of the Year.

GEOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE
India, Indonesia, China, El Salvador, Egypt, Vietnam, the Philippines, Mongolia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Albania.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1986-present, Executive Director and Senior Attorney, Rural Development Institute, Seattle. Joined Rural Development Institute in 1986 as a Research Associate, promoted to Deputy Director in 1988, and to Executive Director in 1991. As a senior legal consultant and manager, Mr. Hanstad has participated in the following representative and recent assignments:

March 2001 to Present. India: A Revised Agenda for Land Reform. Indian National Institute for Rural Development and other Indian counterparts. Serving as RDI’s resident representative, focusing primarily on 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.
November 1998 to May 2001. Indonesia. Land Law Reform. University of Indonesia, Faculty of Law. Ongoing research and legal assistance to the Ministry of Justice and the National Land Agency 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. Supported by 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.
May 1999 to June 2000. Mongolia. Land Reform Consultant to Government of Mongolia Land Reform Commission. World Bank and Government of Mongolia. Consultant services on creating a policy and legal framework for a comprehensive, nation-wide land reform strategy.
August 1987 to May 2001. China. China Rural Land System Project. PRC State Council Development Research Center; PRC Ministry of Agriculture; and China Institute for Reform and Development. Legal, policy, and project assistance on rural land system issues. Supported by UNDP and private foundations.
March 1998 to July 1998. Legal Impediments to Effective Rural Land Relations in Europe and Central Asia: A Comparative Perspective. World Bank. Research report including 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. Co-editor and authored chapter on rural land law reform.
November 1996 to March 1997. Indonesia. Land Tenure Assessment. USAID/Jakarta. Analysis of key land tenure problems and their relationships to sustainable development in Indonesia.
October 1993 to March 1999. Russia. Policy and Legal Advice on Land Privatization and Land Market Development in Russia. USAID/Moscow and Harvard Institute for International Development. Consultant services on policy, legal and administrative issues of farm reorganization and land market creation in Russia.
January 1996 to January 2001. Moldova. Moldova Land and Real Estate Markets. Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc. and USAID/Washington. Consultant services on legal and regulatory issues on the development of land and real estate markets in Moldova.
June 1992 to Present. Kyrgyzstan. Policy and Legal Advice on Rural Land Privatization and Land Market Development. The Eurasia Foundation, Washington; USAID/Almaty and ARD/Checchi; and private foundations. Policy, legal, and project assistance to various government ministries, departments, and law-drafting teams.
November 1997 to November 2000. Republic of Georgia. Urban/Industrial Land Privatization in the Republic of Georgia. Booz, Allen & Hamilton and USAID. Consultant services on legal and regulatory issues on land market development in Georgia.

1995-Present University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of Graduate Program in Law of Sustainable International Development. Taught year-long seminar on international development issues to J.D. and LL.M. (post-J.D.) students.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
Editor and contributor, Legal Impediments to Effective Rural Land Relations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Comparative Perspective. World Bank Technical Report #436, (1999), (with Roy Prosterman).

Editor and contributor, Agrarian Reform and Grassroots Development: Ten Case Studies. Lynne Rienner Press (1990) (with Roy Prosterman and Mary Temple).

“A Fieldwork-Based Appraisal of Individual Peasant Farming in Russia” in Don Van Atta, ed., The "Farmer Threat": The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Post-Soviet Russia (Westview Press, 1993) (with Roy Prosterman)
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“Larger Homestead Plots as Land Reform? International Experience and Analysis from Karnataka,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 29, July 20, 2002 (with Jennifer Brown and Roy Prosterman).

“Designing Land Registration Systems for Developing Countries.” 13 American University International Law Review 3 (1998).

“Large-Scale Farming in China: An Appropriate Policy?” 28 Journal of Contemporary Asia 74 (1998) (with Prosterman and Li).

“Land Reform in the People’s Republic of China: Auctioning Rights to Wasteland,” Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Journal 19 (1997).

“Can China Feed Itself?” Scientific American (November 1996) (with Prosterman and Li).

“Protecting Kirghizstan's Land Resources,” 12 Surviving Together 1 (Spring 1994).

“Philippine Land Reform: the Just Compensation Issue,” 63 Washington Law Review (1988).

“Land System Reform in China’s Countryside,” [in Chinese] 3 Chinese Rural Economy
(March 1995).

“Land Reform in China: The Two Field System in Pingdu,” Social Sciences in China
(Spring 1999).