Christian Lund is a Professor of Development, Resource Management, and Governance, at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on property, local politics and state formation; in particular socio-legal processes of conflict over land and natural resources. He is the author of Law, Power and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code (Lit Verlag/Transaction Publishers) and Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa (Cambridge University Press). He currently is working on a book manuscript, Nine-Tenths of the Law. Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia.