| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Lily Kahng |
PATH DEPENDENCE IN TAX SUBSIDIES FOR HOME SALES |
65 Alabama Law Review 187 (2013) |
At a time of looming fiscal crisis and virtual unanimity that tax expenditures must be curtailed, tax subsidies for homeownership stand out as among the most costly and unfair of these expenditures. As a result of tax subsidies for homeownership, the government foregoes billions of dollars in revenue each year, most of which benefits wealthy... |
2013 |
| Justin Graham |
PLAYING "FAIR" WITH URBAN REDEVELOPMENT: A DEFENSE OF GENTRIFICATION UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT'S DISPARATE IMPACT TEST |
45 Arizona State Law Journal 1719 (Winter 2013) |
I. Introduction. 1721 II. Magner and the Politics of Gentrification in St. Paul. 1725 III. A Brief History of Gentrification in American Cities. 1729 A. Defining Gentrification. 1729 B. The Flight to the Suburbs and Decline of the Urban Core. 1731 C. Back to the City. 1733 IV. Municipal Policies That Promote Gentrification. 1735 A. Tax Incentives... |
2013 |
| Kirsten Matoy Carlson |
PRICELESS PROPERTY |
29 Georgia State University Law Review 685 (Spring, 2013) |
In 2011, the poorest American Indians in the United States refused to accept over one billion dollars from the United States government. They reiterated their long-held belief that money--even $1.3 billion--could not compensate them for the taking of their beloved Black Hills. A closer look at the formation of the Sioux claim to the Black Hills... |
2013 |
| Bela August Walker |
PRIVILEGE AS PROPERTY |
42 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 47 (2013) |
In 2008, after the election of President Barack Obama, voices throughout the nation rose up to declare the beginning of a new epoch in U.S. history: We have now moved beyond race. The vocabulary of colorblindness dates back to at least the nineteenth century, when Justice John Marshall Harlan first declared, [o]ur constitution is color-blind, and... |
2013 |
| Kelianne Chamberlain |
PROPERTY LAW--ONCE A ROAD, ALWAYS A ROAD?: HOW THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT IS LEAVING RURAL LANDOWNERS IN LIMBO; KING v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF FREMONT, 244 P.3D 473 (WYO. 2010) |
13 Wyoming Law Review 69 (2013) |
The Wyoming Supreme Court's holding in King v. Board of County Commissioners of Fremont dealt a significant blow to rural landowners seeking certainty in their land title. Over eighty years after the Fremont County Board of County Commissioners (Commission) improperly established Bunker Road, Edward and Janice King purchased property without... |
2013 |
| Dr. Dana Raigrodski |
PROPERTY, PRIVACY AND POWER: RETHINKING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT IN THE WAKE OF U.S. V. JONES |
22 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 67 (Winter 2013) |
I. Introduction. 68 II. The Multi-Layered Meanings of Privacy and the Public-Private Divide in Fourth Amendment Law. 72 A. Protecting the Private Sphere--The Paradigm of the Home and Private Property. 72 B. Intimacy and the Family-Market Dichotomy. 78 C. Constructing Privacy--Conflating the Dichotomies. 81 III. Deconstructing Privacy and the... |
2013 |
| J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, Kenneth J. Carroll |
PROUDLY OPENING THE DOORS TO FAIR HOUSING |
282-JUN New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 31 (June, 2013) |
The story of HUD is a story of expanding civil rights--a story that begins with a painful history, but leaves a proud legacy: one of opening the doors of America's homes to all Americans. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan National Center for Transgender Equality Conference Nov. 15, 2011 In 1965, the United States Department of Housing and Urban... |
2013 |
| Erica Frankenberg , Genevieve Siegel-Hawley |
PUBLIC DECISIONS AND PRIVATE CHOICES: REASSESSING THE SCHOOL-HOUSING SEGREGATION LINK IN THE POST-PARENTS INVOLVED ERA |
48 Wake Forest Law Review 397 (Spring 2013) |
As the public school enrollment--and the nation more generally--becomes increasingly diverse, the importance of integrated schools for preparing students for the future is especially apparent. Moreover, the consensus of six decades of social science literature is that there are important educational and social benefits of racially diverse schools... |
2013 |
| Christopher Serkin , Leslie Wellington |
PUTTING EXCLUSIONARY ZONING IN ITS PLACE: AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE |
40 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1667 (October, 2013) |
Introduction. 1667 I. The Local Focus of Exclusionary Zoning. 1669 II. The Spatial Dynamics of Exclusionary Zoning. 1673 A. The Needs of Lower-Income Households. 1674 B. The Problem of Exclusion Reassessed. 1677 C. Modern Forms of Exclusion. 1682 III. Rejecting an Ordinance-Centric Focus. 1688 Conclusion. 1695 |
2013 |
| Swati Prakash |
RACIAL DIMENSIONS OF PROPERTY VALUE PROTECTION UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
101 California Law Review 1437 (October, 2013) |
Nearly fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, race-based residential segregation remains remarkably persistent, as do significant racial disparities in economic well-being. This Comment argues that one contributing factor to the persistence of segregation is different access to legal protections for property value enjoyed by... |
2013 |
| Linda S. Finley |
REAL PROPERTY |
65 Mercer Law Review 233 (Fall 2013) |
For the last several years, the Author has begun this Survey with a comment about the American economy and the increase in the number of foreclosures facing Georgia homeowners. Although the number of residential foreclosures appears to be decreasing, the plight of homeowners remains a critical issue. Rest assured, this Article does not limit itself... |
2013 |
| Robert F. Ley |
REVIVING HOUSING RIGHTS OF THE UNDOCUMENTED THROUGH DISPARATE IMPACT AND THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT: THE PROBLEM WITH THE FHA, § 1981, & PREEMPTION |
23 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 35 (2013) |
Anti-immigrant housing ordinances have become a tool for state authorities in their efforts to curb local effects of a defunct federal immigration scheme. Federal frustration and resentment has culminated in state resistance through ordinances inquiring into citizenship status as a condition for renting or leasing property. The legality of these... |
2013 |
| Carlie Armstrong |
SLOW PROGRESS: NEW FEDERAL RULES ONLY BEGIN TO ADDRESS HOUSING DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY |
9 Modern American 2 (Summer, 2013) |
LGBT discrimination is real and . we need to do something about it. -- Secretary Shaun Donovan, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development I always envied Jake's apartment. There were obvious reasons, like the sunny porch and full dining room, but ultimately it was the space that I coveted. While my boyfriend and I tripped over each other... |
2013 |
| Ezra Rosser |
THE AMBITION AND TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF PROGRESSIVE PROPERTY |
101 California Law Review 107 (February, 2013) |
The emerging progressive property school celebrates and finds its meaning in the social nature of property. Rejecting the idea that exclusion lies at the core of property law, progressive property scholars call for a reconsideration of the relationships owners and nonowners have with property and with each other. Despite these ambitions,... |
2013 |
| Robert C. Holmes |
THE CLASH OF HOME RULE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING: THE MOUNT LAUREL STORY CONTINUES |
12 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 325 (Winter-Spring, 2013) |
The Mount Laurel doctrine, a legal principle set forth in a series of New Jersey Supreme Court (Supreme Court or court) rulings, is among the most significant contributions ever made to the advancement of affordable housing. In these rulings, the Supreme Court implicitly declared housing to be a fundamental right and imposed an affirmative... |
2013 |
| Stephanie M. Stern |
THE DARK SIDE OF TOWN: THE SOCIAL CAPITAL REVOLUTION IN RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY LAW |
99 Virginia Law Review 811 (June, 2013) |
Social capital has pervaded property law, with scholars and policymakers advocating laws and property arrangements to promote social capital and relying on social capital to devolve property governance from legal institutions to resident groups. This Article challenges the prevailing view of social capital's salutary effects with a more skeptical... |
2013 |
| Nicholas Cassidy |
THE FAIR HOUSING ACT, DISPARATE IMPACT, AND THE ABILITY-TO-REPAY: A COMPLIANCE DILEMMA FOR MORTGAGE LENDERS |
32 Review of Banking and Financial Law 431 (Spring, 2013) |
In the near future, mortgage lenders may be forced to choose between compliance with the anti-discrimination policies of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) new ability-to-repay rule (ATR). As a response to the housing crisis of 2008, and in an effort to promote responsible lending, the CFPB... |
2013 |
| Rachel D. Godsil |
THE GENTRIFICATION TRIGGER: AUTONOMY, MOBILITY, AND AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING |
78 Brooklyn Law Review 319 (Winter, 2013) |
Gentrification polarizes. The term usually connotes a process where outsiders move into an area whose once-attractive properties have now deteriorated due to disinvestment. The outsiders moving in are often, though not always, white. This migration can lead to arguably positive outcomes. Increased demand results in an increase in property... |
2013 |
| Elizabeth Kelley |
THE ROUND HOUSE HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK, NY, 2012. 336 PAGES, $27.99 |
60-JUN Federal Lawyer 84 (June, 2013) |
When I saw that Amazon.com advertised that The Round House by Louise Erdrich was [l]ikely to be dubbed the Native American To Kill a Mockingbird, I knew I had to read it. Although The Round House's plot is not as accessible and heartwarming as Harper Lee's classic, its characters are every bit as complex, and its presentation of the underlying... |
2013 |
| Joseph William Singer |
THE RULE OF REASON IN PROPERTY LAW |
46 U.C. Davis Law Review 1369 (June, 2013) |
I. Rules and Standards. 1375 A. Conventional Analysis. 1375 B. Legal Realism About Rules and Standards in Property Law. 1380 1. Why Rules Are Less Predictable than We Think. 1380 a. Informal Sources of Justified Expectations. 1380 b. Rules Do Not Determine Their Own Scope. 1383 c. Competing Norms Limit the Scope of Legal Rules. 1385 2. Why... |
2013 |
| Paul Babie |
THE SPATIAL: A FORGOTTEN DIMENSION OF PROPERTY |
50 San Diego Law Review 323 (May-June, 2013) |
I. Introduction. 324 II. Edward Soja's Ontological Trialectic and Spatial Justice. 329 III. Reassembling Property. 334 A. Historicality: Rights and Allocation. 335 1. Private Property and Bundles of Rights. 335 2. Two Other Ideal Types. 339 3. Allocation. 340 B. Sociality: Social Origins and the Socially Contingent Boundaries of Rights343 1. The... |
2013 |
| Emily Coffey |
WHAT'S NEXT FOR LATHROP HOMES? |
18 Public Interest Law Reporter 146 (Spring 2013) |
The Julia C. Lathrop Homes differ from other public housing developments in Chicago. A low-rise development bordering the Chicago River on Chicago's North Side, Lathrop has provided affordable housing to working class families since 1938. The community is also racially and economically diverse, unlike many of Chicago's former public housing... |
2013 |
| Mark Walsh |
WHEN A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME |
99-DEC ABA Journal 15 (December, 2013) |
A housing discrimination case from New Jersey could lead to one of the biggest decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court's term. On the other hand, if it proceeds like another recent fair housing case, it could end up a dud. The justices granted review of Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action Inc. at the end of their last term. It is... |
2013 |
| George Lipsitz |
"IN AN AVALANCHE EVERY SNOWFLAKE PLEADS NOT GUILTY": THE COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF MASS INCARCERATION AND IMPEDIMENTS TO WOMEN'S FAIR HOUSING RIGHTS |
59 UCLA Law Review 1746 (August, 2012) |
In our society, individual acts of intentional discrimination function in concert with historically created vulnerabilities; these vulnerabilities are based on disfavored identity categories and amplify each injustice and injury. Although anyone can be a victim of housing discrimination, women of color suffer distinct collateral injuries from... |
2012 |
| William S. King |
A BRIDGE TOO FAR: DUE PROCESS CONSIDERATIONS IN STATE UNCLAIMED-PROPERTY LAW ENFORCEMENT |
45 Suffolk University Law Review 1249 (2012) |
The UPL [Unclaimed Property Law] is not a permanent or true escheat statute. Instead, it gives the state custody and use of unclaimed property until such time as the owner claims it. Its dual objectives are to protect unknown owners by locating them and restoring their property to them and to give the state rather than the holders of unclaimed... |
2012 |
| Amanda Mortwedt Oh |
A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND: THE CASE FOR ENDING THE EXTRAORDINARY CHAMBERS IN THE COURTS OF CAMBODIA |
10 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 502 (Fall 2012) |
Keav, why are the soldiers so mean to us? I ask, clinging even more tightly to her. Shhh. They are called Khmer Rouge. They are the Communists. . . . Keav tells me the soldiers claim to love Cambodia and its people very much. Author Loung Ung's personal narrative in First They Killed My Father, about one of the most tragic stories of our... |
2012 |
| Caroline Joan S. Picart |
A TANGO BETWEEN COPYRIGHT AND CHOREOGRAPHY: WHITENESS AS STATUS PROPERTY IN BALANCHINE'S BALLETS, FULLER'S SERPENTINE DANCE AND GRAHAM'S MODERN DANCES |
18 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 685 (Spring 2012) |
The stage is dark, but in one corner, in the shadows, kneels the curved, still body of a man. His silhouette shows his face buried in his palms, as if in anguish, as if remembering . . . or as if dreaming. Out of the darkness behind him, in a single shaft of light, steps the figure of a young girl. Her hair is loose, her white gown is flowing and... |
2012 |
| Yun-chien Chang , Henry E. Smith |
AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF CIVIL VERSUS COMMON LAW PROPERTY |
88 Notre Dame Law Review 1 (November, 2012) |
Common law and civil law property appear to be quite different, with the former emphasizing pieces of ownership called estates and the latter focusing on holistic ownership. And yet the two systems are remarkably similar in their broad outlines for functional reasons. This Article offers a transaction cost explanation for the practical similarity... |
2012 |
| Zoë Prebble |
ANTI-SPRAWL INITIATIVES: HOW COMPLETE IS THE CONVERGENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL, DESEGREGATIONIST AND FAIR HOUSING INTERESTS? |
30 Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal 197 (2011-2012) |
Imagine spacious landscaped highways . giant roads, themselves great architecture, pass public service stations, no longer eyesores, expanded to include all kinds of service and comfort. They unite and separate--separate and unite the series of diversified units, the farm units, the factory units, the roadside markets, the garden schools, the... |
2012 |
| Daniel J. Sharfstein |
ATROCITY, ENTITLEMENT, AND PERSONHOOD IN PROPERTY |
98 Virginia Law Review 635 (May, 2012) |
Introduction. 636 I. Intuitions of Personhood: Making Sense of the Atrocity Value. 645 A. The Progressive Valence and Legacy of Personhood. 646 B. Understanding the Atrocity Value in Property. 648 1. Initial Intuitions. 648 2. The Social Psychology of Atrocity and Personhood. 650 3. Atrocity, Personhood, and the Cultural Dynamics of Violence. 653... |
2012 |
| Rebecca N. Morrow |
BILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS SPENT INFLATING THE HOUSING BUBBLE: HOW AND WHY THE MORTGAGE INTEREST DEDUCTION FAILED |
17 Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law 751 (2012) |
The mortgage interest deduction is an incredibly popular, politically well-supported and hugely expensive tax incentive. Yet economic studies consistently show that the mortgage interest deduction fails to advance its fundamental purpose. It does not increase the rate of homeownership. On the contrary, to the extent that it is effective in... |
2012 |
| Benjamin Hochberg |
BRINGING JIM THORPE HOME: INCONSISTENCIES IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES AND REPATRIATION ACT |
13 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 83 (2012) |
Yes. That order did not come from God. Justice, That dwells with the gods below, knows no such law. I did not think your edicts strong enough To overrule the unwritten unalterable laws Of God and heaven, you being only a man. The body of the greatest Native American athlete was sold in a midnight exchange for the benefit of local tourism. In... |
2012 |
| Michael C. Nissim-Sabat |
CAPTURING THIS WATCHDOG? THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU KEEPING THE SPECIAL INTERESTS OUT OF ITS HOUSE |
40 Western State University Law Review 1 (Fall 2012) |
I. Introduction. 1 II. The Financial Crisis. 3 A. The Collapse. 4 B. The Legislative Response to the Crisis: Enacting the CFPB. 7 III. Regulatory Capture. 10 A. Regulatory Capture Working Its Way into an Agency. 12 B. A Single Administrator Versus a Board of Commissioners. 14 IV. Insight for Managing (or Eliminating) Capture in the CFPB. 16 A. The... |
2012 |
| Lucas P. Volkman |
CHURCH PROPERTY DISPUTES, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND THE ORDEAL OF AFRICAN METHODISTS IN ANTEBELLUM ST. LOUIS: FARRAR V. FINNEY (1855) |
27 Journal of Law and Religion 83 (2011-2012) |
In October 1846, the men and women of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis (African Church) met to consider whether they would remain with the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) or align with the recently-formed Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS). Two years earlier, in 1844, amid growing conflict over the question of slavery... |
2012 |
| Caroline Joan (“Kay”) S. Picart |
COLLOQUIUM PROCEEDINGS: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, RACE/GENDER & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY |
48 California Western Law Review 493 (Spring 2012) |
The vantage point from which I engage LatCrit XVI's emphases on Global Justice: Theories, Histories, Futures is rooted personally, as a body and entity marked by multiple hybridities, but also as a trained philosopher concerned with metaphysical and ethical questions of truth in relation to the generation of narratives. In other words, I engage... |
2012 |
| Raymond H. Brescia , Elizabeth A. Kelly , John Travis Marshall |
CRISIS MANAGEMENT: PRINCIPLES THAT SHOULD GUIDE THE DISPOSITION OF FEDERALLY OWNED, FORECLOSED PROPERTIES |
45 Indiana Law Review 305 (2012) |
Residential home values in the United States have fallen considerably from their highs in the mid-2000s. This has had profound effects on consumer wealth and spending, creating a significant drag on the U.S. economy. What is worse, this loss in values corresponded with a steep rise in unemployment, which started in late 2007, and has yet to fall... |
2012 |
| Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid |
DIRTY HARRY MEETS DIRTY DIAPERS: MASCULINITIES, AT-HOME FATHERS, AND MAKING THE LAW WORK FOR FAMILIES |
22 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 1 (Fall 2012) |
Introduction. 2 I. Masculinities and At-Home Fathers. 6 A. Who's the (At-Home) Man?: Identifying At-Home Fathers. 6 B. From Masculine to Masculinities. 8 II. The Study. 11 A. Study Design. 12 B. Results. 14 1. Economic Indicators. 16 2. Caregiving and Work-Family Balance Indicators. 18 III. Adaptive Masculinities in the At-Home Father Community. 20... |
2012 |
| Samuel Marll |
DO MUNICIPALITIES HAVE ARTICLE III STANDING TO SUE MORTGAGE LENDERS UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT? |
15 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 253 (Fall 2012) |
I believe when somebody owns their own home, they're realizing the American Dream. By 2008, the U.S. housing market had veered off a cliff. Along with it went many Americans' life savings, cities' tax bases and any realistic hope of a speedy macroeconomic recovery. As the financial contagion spread and layoffs arrived in force, millions of... |
2012 |
| Peter W. Salsich, Jr. |
DOES AMERICA NEED PUBLIC HOUSING? |
19 George Mason Law Review 689 (Spring, 2012) |
I didn't want to leave, but I didn't have a choice, Annie Ricks, the last of fifteen thousand former residents of the Cabrini-Green public housing complex in Chicago, stated upon leaving the eleventh-floor apartment where she lived with five of her eight children. Ms. Ricks and her children were forced to leave in December 2010 because the... |
2012 |
| Ashleigh Bausch Varley , Mary C. Snow |
DON'T YOU DARE LIVE HERE: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING ORDINANCES AT ISSUE IN KELLER V. CITY OF FREMONT |
45 Creighton Law Review 503 (April, 2012) |
In 1973, the United States Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe acknowledged the existence of a shadow population of undocumented immigrants numbering in the millions - within our borders. The Court noted: This situation raises the specter of a permanent caste of undocumented resident aliens, encouraged by some to remain here as a source of cheap... |
2012 |
| Jan G. Laitos and Michael K. Kugler |
EQUAL PROTECTION IN PROPERTY AND PLANNING |
64 Planning & Environmental Law 4 (November, 2012) |
Private property owners occasionally chafe and complain and even bring suit when the right to use their property is subjected to government interference. One of the most maddening forms of government interference is a policy that appears to burden an owner's property differently than other property that appears to be similarly situated. This is... |
2012 |
| Sarah L. Rosenbluth |
FAIR HOUSING ACT CHALLENGES TO THE USE OF CONSUMER CREDIT INFORMATION IN HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE UNDERWRITING: IS THE MCCARRAN-FERGUSON ACT A BAR? |
46 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 49 (Fall, 2012) |
Despite the promise of the Fair Housing Act, structural inequality in the housing market persists. One of the most notable manifestations of this inequality is the racial and ethnic divide in patterns of homeownership. Although many factors contribute to this disparity, civil rights and consumer-protection groups have highlighted insurers' practice... |
2012 |
| Caitlin Shay |
FAST TRACK TO COLLAPSE: HOW ZIMBABWE'S FAST-TRACK LAND REFORM PROGRAM VIOLATES INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS TO PROPERTY, DUE PROCESS, AND COMPENSATION |
27 American University International Law Review 133 (2012) |
INTRODUCTION. 134 I. BACKGROUND. 137 A. Zimbabwe's Post-Independence Land Reform Efforts. 138 B. The Right to Property Under the UDHR and the Banjul Charter. 140 C. Tension between the Zimbabwean judiciary and the SADC Tribunal regarding the legality of Amendments 16A and 16B. 143 II. ANALYSIS. 145 A. Amendments 16A and 16B violate the right to... |
2012 |
| Aleatra P. Williams |
FORECLOSING FORECLOSURE: ESCAPING THE YAWNING ABYSS OF THE DEEP MORTGAGE AND HOUSING CRISIS |
7 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 455 (Spring, 2012) |
In 2007, Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing at RealtyTrac, stated that with more stringent lending and underwriting standards, we will likely see a significant foreclosure decrease within the next three years. However, a sustained and considerable decrease in foreclosures has yet to occur. In fact, the real estate market downfall and... |
2012 |
| Donald C. Langevoort |
GETTING (TOO) COMFORTABLE: IN-HOUSE LAWYERS, ENTERPRISE RISK, AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS |
2012 Wisconsin Law Review 495 (2012) |
In-house lawyers are now a principal focus of attention in the study of the legal profession. So it is appropriate in the aftermath of the global financial crisis to inquire about lawyers' perception of, and complicity in, such wrongdoing as may have occurred. This Essay describes the perceptual biases that may distort judgment notwithstanding... |
2012 |
| David Cavell |
GHETTO LOANS: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICAN BORROWERS IN MORTGAGE MARKETS AND THE IMPACT OF THE IBANEZ DECISION |
25 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 449 (Summer, 2012) |
In 2001, Wells Fargo Bank changed the commission system for their mortgage loan officers and underwriters, structuring the new system to pay employees considerably more when consumers purchased subprime loans instead of prime loans. Over the next few years, as a result of these changes, in the Annandale, Virginia office alone, many loan officers... |
2012 |
| Gregory S. Alexander |
GOVERNANCE PROPERTY |
160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1853 (June, 2012) |
Introduction. 1854 I. Governance Property Institutions. 1860 A. The Domestic Sphere. 1860 1. Marriage/Domestic Partnership. 1860 2. The Home or Household. 1861 3. Neighborhoods and Communities. 1862 a. Common Interest Communities. 1862 b. Leaseholds. 1862 4. The Commercial Sphere. 1863 II. The Analytical Structure of Governance Property. 1863 A.... |
2012 |
| Lisa T. Alexander |
HIP-HOP AND HOUSING: REVISITING CULTURE, URBAN SPACE, POWER, AND LAW |
63 Hastings Law Journal 803 (March, 2012) |
U.S. housing law is finally receiving its due attention. Scholars and practitioners are focused primarily on the subprime mortgage and foreclosure crises. Yet the current recession has also resurrected the debate about the efficacy of place-based lawmaking. Place-based laws direct economic resources to low-income neighborhoods to help existing... |
2012 |
| Kevin C. Foy |
HOME IS WHERE THE HEALTH IS: THE CONVERGENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND GREEN BUILDING |
30 Pace Environmental Law Review 1 (Fall 2012) |
Housing in the United States, at least prior to the recent economic downturn, came to be viewed as an investment that grew over time, and which could then be cashed in either for better housing or for other uses, much like a growth stock or savings account. But housing's fundamental purpose is to provide a decent place to live-a comfortable place... |
2012 |
| Johanna Bond |
HONOR AS PROPERTY |
23 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 202 (2012) |
This Article is the first to use a property lens to explore the social construction of honor within legal systems around the world. The Article makes the claim that the law in many countries has implicitly treated honor as a form of property and has made legal and social allowances for men who seek to reclaim honor property through violence. The... |
2012 |