Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
Danielle B. Ridgely |
WILL VIRGINIA'S NEW EMINENT DOMAIN AMENDMENT PROTECT PRIVATE PROPERTY? |
26 Regent University Law Review 297 (2013-2014) |
Most toddlers respect private property as private until they want it, at which point they feel justified in asserting their superior rights. The Norfolk Housing Authority recently has not behaved much differently. In fact, the Housing Authority is forcing local businessman Bob Wilson to give up his private property for an approved redevelopment... |
2014 |
David P. Weber |
ZOMBIE MORTGAGES, REAL ESTATE, AND THE FALLOUT FOR THE SURVIVORS |
45 New Mexico Law Review 37 (Fall, 2014) |
The first generally accepted reference to zombies occurred approximately in the 18th century BCE in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Now popularized, the concept of zombie has begun to infect legal scholarship. Capable of a surprisingly broad application to various legal doctrines, the generally accepted definitions of zombie are along the lines of the... |
2014 |
Barbara J. Flagg |
"AND GRACE WILL LEAD ME HOME": THE CASE FOR JUDICIAL RACE ACTIVISM |
4 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 103 (2013) |
Introduction. 103 I. The Persisting Dilemma of Race in America. 105 A. White Dignitary Privilege and Color Stigmatization. 107 B. The Evidence for Color Stigmatization. 110 1. Social Experience. 110 2. Social Science. 114 II. The Law's Response. 117 A. Race is a Creature of the Law. 118 B. Law Could Have an Impact on White Dignitary Privilege.... |
2013 |
Guadalupe T. Luna |
"FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS:" IRREGULAR HOUSING IN THE TEXAS COLONIAS |
28 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 121 (Summer 2013) |
This article recounts a shared research trip in 1993 to test theoretical models that ignored the impoverished and the unique land use patterns in border-region colonias. Colonias are irregular housing structures that escape building code standards and lack the benefit of clean water, utilities, and health, safety and welfare law. The absence of... |
2013 |
Jennifer Klein , Eileen Boris |
"WE HAVE TO TAKE IT TO THE TOP!" : WORKERS, STATE POLICY, AND THE MAKING OF HOME CARE |
61 Buffalo Law Review 293 (April, 2013) |
On Halloween 1988, seventy-five Chicago home care workers shouted in front of the Evanston residence of Janet Otwell, director of the Illinois Department of Aging (IDOA): No More Tricks, Treat Us with Dignity and Respect! For weeks, Otwell had rebuffed their requests for a meeting, so these black women, members of Service Employees International... |
2013 |
David A. Super |
A NEW NEW PROPERTY |
113 Columbia Law Review 1773 (November, 2013) |
Charles Reich's visionary 1964 article, The New Property, paved the way for a revolution in procedural due process. It did not, however, accomplish Reich's primary stated goal: providing those dependent on government assistance the same security that property lights long have offered owners of real property. As Reich himself predicted, procedural... |
2013 |
Austin W. King |
AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHER: REVIVING THE FAIR HOUSING ACT'S INTEGRATIONIST PURPOSE |
88 New York University Law Review 2182 (December, 2013) |
This Note seeks to contribute to the revival of an underutilized section of the Fair Housing Act intended not just to ban individual acts of discrimination but also to achieve integrated residential neighborhoods. The gulf between lofty, vague federal policy and the local governments responsible for zoning, planning, and housing siting decisions,... |
2013 |
Philip Tegeler, Megan Haberle, Ebony Gayles |
AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING IN HUD HOUSING PROGRAMS: A FIRST TERM REPORT CARD |
22 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 27 (2013) |
During the first term of the Obama Administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has reaffirmed a broad commitment to fair housing. However, while fair housing enforcement at the agency has increased noticeably, the task of reforming HUD's own programs has been painstakingly slow. A flurry of positive activity inside the... |
2013 |
Zachary L. Guyse |
ALABAMA'S ORIGINAL SIN: PROPERTY TAXES, RACISM, AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN ALABAMA |
65 Alabama Law Review 519 (2013) |
Introduction. 519 I. Playing Limbo: Alabama's Property Tax Structure. 521 II. The History of the 1901 Constitution & The Lid Bill. 524 A. The Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1901. 524 B. The Lid Bill. 527 III. The First Crusade: Knight v. Alabama. 529 A. Findings of Fact. 529 B. Conclusions of Law. 530 IV. The Second Crusade: Lynch v. Alabama.... |
2013 |
Mary Helen McNeal , Patricia Warth |
BARRED FOREVER: SENIORS, HOUSING, AND SEX OFFENSE REGISTRATION |
22-SPG Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 317 (Spring, 2013) |
Mr. Charles Bianco is a 73-year-old retired laborer who lives alone in a small one- bedroom apartment, supporting himself on a modest income derived from his social security check and a small pension. He suffers from pulmonary disease, and because his lung capacity is limited to eighteen percent of normal, he requires oxygen. He has grown frail... |
2013 |
Shana M. Scott, MPH |
BRIDGING THE TITLE VI GAP: HOW CAN THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ADDRESS RACIAL INEQUITY IN NURSING HOMES? |
22 Annals of Health Law Advance Directive 74 (Spring, 2013) |
Evidence of racial and ethnic health disparities have been documented in the American healthcare system for decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defined health disparities as preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially... |
2013 |
Brian Gilmore |
CHANCES ARE: LESSONS FROM THE 1962 UNITED STATES CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION HOUSING DISCRIMINATION HEARINGS IN WASHINGTON D.C. FOR THE CURRENT FORECLOSURE CRISIS |
3 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 1 (2013) |
By examining a prior government hearing that investigated instances and patterns of housing discrimination in the U.S., a more accurate picture of the damage created by government policies that supported housing discrimination, racial segregation, and economic inequality can be presented. This Article focuses specifically upon the 1962 Housing... |
2013 |
Meredith M. Render |
COMPLEXITY IN PROPERTY |
81 Tennessee Law Review 79 (Fall, 2013) |
This Article illuminates the largely misunderstood relationship between complexity and the regulation of property interests. Specifically, the Article presents the complexity thesis-a novel explanatory account of the principle of numerus clausus. The principle of numerus clausus is an ancient common law rule that prohibits the customization of... |
2013 |
Scott A. Marks |
FAIR HOUSING DESEGREGATION POLICY: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND PROPOSED SITE SELECTION SAFE HARBORS |
22 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 67 (2013) |
The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) recently sharpened an old tool, the Fair Housing Act, to address modern racial concentrations in housing. The new discriminatory effects fair housing rule extends, for example, to any practice that has the effect of reinforcing or increasing segregated housing patterns, regardless of whether... |
2013 |
Lolita Buckner Inniss |
FROM SPACE-OFF TO REPRESENTED SPACE: A REVIEW OF REIMAGINING EQUALITY: STORIES OF GENDER, RACE, AND FINDING HOME BY ANITA HILL. BOSTON: BEACON PRESS, 2011. 195 PP. $25.95 HARDBACK. |
28 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 138 (Winter 2013) |
In Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home, author Anita Hill explores some of the literal and figurative meanings of home, focusing specifically on African-American women in their quest for home. Hill layers discussions of law, literature, and culture with stories of individual women, both historic and contemporary. In... |
2013 |
Wayne Wagner |
HOMELESS PROPERTY RIGHTS: AN ANALYSIS OF HOMELESSNESS, HONOLULU'S "SIDEWALK LAW," AND WHETHER REAL PROPERTY IS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO THE FULL ENJOYMENT OF RIGHTS UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION |
35 University of Hawaii Law Review 197 (Winter, 2013) |
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me; Sign was painted, it said private property; But on the back side it didn't say nothing; This land was made for you and me. -Woody Guthrie This Land is Your Land I. Introduction. 198 II. Homelessness in Hawai'i: A Background. 201 III. Anti-homeless State and City Legislation and Activity. 204... |
2013 |
Wayne Wagner |
HOMELESS PROPERTY RIGHTS: AN ANALYSIS OF HOMELESSNESS, HONOLULU'S "SIDEWALK LAW," AND WHETHER REAL PROPERTY IS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO THE FULL ENJOYMENT OF RIGHTS UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION |
35 University of Hawaii Law Review 197 (Winter, 2013) |
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me; Sign was painted, it said private property; But on the back side it didn't say nothing; This land was made for you and me. -Woody Guthrie This Land is Your Land I. Introduction. 198 II. Homelessness in Hawai'i: A Background. 201 III. Anti-homeless State and City Legislation and Activity. 204... |
2013 |
Ryan D. Dreveskracht |
HOUSE REPUBLICANS ADD INSULT TO NATIVE WOMEN'S INJURY |
3 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 1 (2013) |
Introduction. 1 Background and Context. 2 What's the Big Deal? It Isn't That Bad.. 12 Constitutionality and Supreme Court Review. 21 Conclusion. 27 |
2013 |
Alexander Polikoff |
HOUSING VOUCHER MOBILITY: AN OVERLOOKED FAIR HOUSING ISSUE |
46 John Marshall Law Review 1089 (Summer, 2013) |
Sadly, forty-five years after the Fair Housing Act became law, our society is still plagued with unacceptably high levels of residential segregation. For children growing up in high-poverty urban areas today, the consequences are in some ways worse than they were when Senator Mondale famously proclaimed that the reach of the proposed law was to... |
2013 |
David Min |
HOW GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES PROMOTE HOUSING FINANCE STABILITY |
50 Harvard Journal on Legislation 437 (Summer, 2013) |
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, major reforms of the U.S. housing finance system are likely. One of the key issues facing policy makers in this area is whether and to what extent the federal government should maintain its current role in the residential mortgage markets. Since the New Deal, the federal government has guaranteed the... |
2013 |
Kristen Ulan |
HOW UNCERTAINTY IN THE REDRAWING OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS AFFECTS HOUSING PRICES, A CASE STUDY: COMPARING NEIGHBORHOODS IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA AND COLUMBIA, MARYLAND |
2 University of Baltimore Journal of Land and Development 113 (Spring 2013) |
While price is a significant factor in purchasing real estate, more important is location. Different individuals have varied location requirements for their desired property. Younger individuals and couples without immediate family plans typically do not consider the assigned schools as much as a family with young children. Likewise, for those with... |
2013 |
Andrew Lee |
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MORAL RIGHTS, AND SOCIAL UTILITY: A CLASFICALLY LIBERAL EXPLORATION OF THE NORMATIVE AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS |
7 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 431 (2013) |
Introduction. 432 I. Overview: Moral And Consequentialist Perspectives. 434 A. Moral Arguments. 435 1. Categorizing the Moral Foundations of Intellectual Property. 437 B. Consequentialist Arguments. 441 C. Synthesis. 450 II. Natural and Imposed Scarcity. 452 III. Intellectual Property Rights in the Modern Context. 456 A. Trademarks: The Odd Man... |
2013 |
Stacy E. Seicshnaydre |
IS DISPARATE IMPACT HAVING ANY IMPACT?AN APPELLATE ANALYSIS OF FORTY YEARS OF DISPARATE IMPACT CLAIMS UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
63 American University Law Review 357 (December, 2013) |
After four decades of unanimity in the circuit courts, with several denials of certiorari by the Supreme Court, the Court has recently granted certiorari in two cases to resolve the apparently settled question of whether the disparate impact theory is cognizable under the Fair Housing Act (FHA). Although these two recent cases, Magner v. Gallagher... |
2013 |
R. Ian Forrest |
KÀN BÚ TÀI DŎNG: THE FAIR HOUSING ACT, LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION, AND CHINESE CLASSIFIEDS |
101 Kentucky Law Journal 839 (2012-2013) |
While flipping through the classifieds in search of a new apartment, you come across the following two advertisements: Philadelphia. Duplex N of town, rent 5K Which are you more likely to answer? The vast majority of Americans will respond to the first advertisement, coincidentally picking the more expensive option, because the nine recently... |
2013 |
Christopher J. Wahl |
KEEPING HELLER OUT OF THE HOME: HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS |
15 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1003 (January, 2013) |
The homeowners association (HOA) of Nashboro Village in Nashville, Tennessee, adopted a rule in 2007 prohibiting the possession of guns in the neighborhood's homes. The rule was passed in response to an increase of crime in the area, but residents responded furiously, claiming in the local media that the rule was unconstitutional and a threat to... |
2013 |
Gengzhao Chen , Berry F.C. Hsu |
LAW AND POLICY IN THE SUSTAINABILITY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING: THE CASE OF CHINA |
30 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal 259 (Spring 2013) |
Affordable housing has an important effect on the long-term economic development and competitiveness of a region. It also plays a significant role in reducing urban poverty and maintaining social stability. This paper aims to explore the concept of sustainability related to affordable housing in China and to discuss why an integrated approach to... |
2013 |
John W. McGee |
MT. HOLLY v. MT. HOLLEY GARDENS: DISPARATE IMPACT AND THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
41 Real Estate Law Journal 429 (Spring, 2013) |
Race discrimination hampers our economic growth by preventing the maximum development of our manpower, by contradicting at home the message we preach abroad. It mars the atmosphere of a united and classless society in which this Nation rose to greatness. It increases the costs of public welfare, crime, delinquency, and disorder. Above all, it is... |
2013 |
Nestor M. Davidson |
NEW FORMALISM IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOUSING CRISIS |
93 Boston University Law Review 389 (March, 2013) |
Introduction. 390 I. In the Aftermath: The Housing Crisis in the Courts. 396 A. The System Breaks Down. 396 1. A Snapshot of the Housing Boom and Bust. 396 2. The Structural Interface Between Primary and Secondary Mortgage Markets. 399 B. Patterns in the Ensuing Mortgage Distress Jurisprudence. 402 1. Formalism Emerging. 403 a. Standing,... |
2013 |
Allison Brownell Tirres |
OWNERSHIP WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP: THE CREATION OF NONCITIZEN PROPERTY RIGHTS |
19 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 1 (Fall 2013) |
At the nation's founding, the common law of property defined ownership as an incident of citizenship. Noncitizens were unable lawfully to hold, devise, or inherit property. This doctrine eroded during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but few scholars have examined its demise or the concommittant rise of property rights for... |
2013 |
Peter Goodrich , Sonia K. Katyal , Rebecca Tushnet |
PANEL I: CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION LAW SCHOLARSHIP |
31 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 601 (2013) |
Peter Goodrich: I won't lead so much as follow but many thanks to Sarah and Agatha. One of the most remarkable features of today's event lies in the fact that it is entirely student led, student driven, student motivated, and student organized. So just a few words about Critical Legal Studies (CLS), because the only reason I'm here is that I am a... |
2013 |
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 |