Publications

Edited books

With J. Unruh, Strengthening Post-Conflict Peacebuilding through Natural Resource Management, Volume II – The Indispensable Asset: Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Environmental Law Institute, United Nations Environment Programme, University of Tokyo, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, forthcoming)

With W. Kälin, K. Koser and A. Solomon, Incorporating the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into Domestic Law: Issues and Challenges (The Brookings Institution and American Society for International Law, Jan. 2010):

Articles and chapters

“Protection in the Past Tense: Restitution at the Juncture of Humanitarian Response to Displacement and Transitional Justice”, in Roger Duthie (ed.), Transitional Justice and Displacement (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2012 – forthcoming)

Post-Conflict Land Tenure Issues in Bosnia: Privatization and the Politics of Reintegrating the Displaced,” in J. Unruh and R. Williams (eds.), Strengthening Post-Conflict Peacebuilding through Natural Resource Management, Volume II – The Indispensable Asset: Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Environmental Law Institute, United Nations Environment Programme, University of Tokyo, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, forthcoming)

Property” in W. Kälin, R. Williams, K. Koser and A. Solomon (eds.), Incorporating the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into Domestic Law: Issues and Challenges (The Brookings Institution and American Society for International Law, Jan. 2010)

“Excluding to Protect: Land Rights and Minority Protection in International Law,” in S. Spiliopoulou Åkermark (ed.), The Right of Domicile on Åland (Estonia: A/S Paket, Apr. 2009)

With Charles Philpott, “The Dayton Dialectic: The Significance of Property Deprivation and Repossession in the Context of Ethnic Cleansing,” in D. Haynes (ed.), Deconstructing the Reconstruction: Human Rights and Rule of Law in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (London: Ashgate, Oct. 2008)

“Stability, Justice and Rights in the Wake of the Cold War: The Housing, Land and Property Rights Legacy of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia,” in S. Leckie (ed.), Housing, Land, and Property Rights in Post-Conflict United Nations and Other Peace Operations: A Comparative Survey and Proposal for Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

“The Significance of Property Restitution to Sustainable Return in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” International Migration 44/3 (Aug. 2006)

Post-Conflict Property Restitution and Refugee Return in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Implications for International Standard-Setting and Practice,” New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 37/3 (Mar. 2006)

Reports, policy analysis and practitioner documents

From Shelter to Housing: Security of Tenure and Integration in Protracted Displacement Settings“, Norwegian Refugee Council Thematic Report (December 2011)

With A. Gürel, “The European Court of Human Rights and the Cyprus Property Issue: Charting a Way Forward,” PRIO Cyprus Centre Paper 1/2011 (Oct. 2011)

“Protracted Internal Displacement and Integration in Serbia,” in E. Ferris (ed.), Resolving Internal Displacement: Prospects for Local Integration (Jun. 2011)

Beyond Squatters’ Rights: Durable Solutions and Development-Induced Displacement in Monrovia, Liberia,” Norwegian Refugee Council Thematic Report (May 2011)

International Standards Governing Evictions from Public Property,” INPROL Consolidated Response 10-010 (Sept. 2010)

Principal author, “Comments on the Proposed Victims’ Law and National Restitution Plan: Respecting and Protecting the Housing, Land and Property Restitution Rights of All Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia,” Displacement Solutions (Dec. 2008)

Title Through Possession or Title Through Position? Respect for Housing, Land and Property Rights in Cambodia,” COHRE Occasional Paper (Nov. 2008)

Principal author, Protecting Internally Displaced Persons: A Manual for Law and Policy-Makers (The Brookings Institution-University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Oct. 2008)

The Contemporary Right to Property Restitution in the Context of Transitional Justice,” International Center for Transitional Justice Occasional Paper (May 2007)

With A. Hurwitz & K. Studdard, “Housing, Land, Property and Conflict Management: Identifying Policy Options for Rule of Law Programming,” International Peace Academy Policy Paper (Oct. 2005)

Short articles and commentaries

Introductory Note – European Court of Human Rights: Demopoulos v. Turkey,” International Legal Materials 3/2010 (Oct. 2010)

Introductory Note – UN Register of Damage (UNRoD) Rules and Regulations Governing the Registration of Claims,” International Legal Materials 2/2010 (Jul. 2010)

The Refugee Imperative in Iraq,” The American Interest IV/3 (Jan. 2009)

“Guiding Principle 29 and the Right to Restitution,” Forced Migration Review (Dec. 2008)

“Iraq’s Displaced at the Crossroads of Partition and Restitution,” in The Middle East Institute Viewpoints: Iraq’s Refugee and IDP Crisis (Jul. 2008)

Applying the Lessons of Bosnia in Iraq: Whatever the Solution, Property Rights Should be Secured,” Brookings Institution Commentary (Jan. 2008)

Restitución: El Caso de Bosnia Herzegovina, in Cuadernos del Conflicto: Justicia, Verdad y Reparación en Medio del Conflicto, Fundación Ideas para la Paz and Semana Magazine (Apr. 2005)

Post-conflict property restitution in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina: legal rationale and practical implementation,” Forced Migration Review 21 (Oct. 2004)