主 题:Urbanization and the Land System Reform: A Land Tenure Analysis
主讲人:约翰·布鲁斯博士(John W. Bruce)
美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校土地产权中心原主任
主持人:何宇鹏
清华大学中国农村研究院副院长
时 间: 2016年6月14日(星期二)上午10:00—12:00
地 点: 294俄罗斯专享会302会议室
语 言: 英文(无同声传译)
主办单位: 清华大学中国农村研究院
主讲人简介:
Dr. John W. Bruce has worked on land policy and law in developing countries for over forty years, primarily in Africa and Asia. After graduating from Columbia University Law School in the late 1960s, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer legal advisor to the Ministry of Land Reform in Ethiopia and carried out research for his legal doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on customary land tenure in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. He then spent five years in Sudan as the Ford Foundation’s representative, teaching Property at the Faculty of Law of the University of Khartoum and coordinating the Faculty’s Sudan Customary Law Research Project. He returned to the US in 1980, to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Land Tenure Center, an interdisciplinary center of excellence on land tenure in developing countries. He served as African Program Coordinator, and then as Director. In 1996 he left the University to join the World Bank, where he served as Senior Counsel (Land Law) and Senior Land Tenure Specialist for the Rural Development Department. He retired from the World Bank in 2006. From 2007 to 2014 he served as president and senior land tenure specialist of Land and Development Solutions International, a consulting firm which he co-founded. He was also a Visiting Professor at Renmin University of China. He has published extensively on land policy, land law and land administration.