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Full-Text Articles in Property Law and Real Estate
Reassessing The Citizen Virtues Of Homeownership, Stephanie M. Stern
Reassessing The Citizen Virtues Of Homeownership, Stephanie M. Stern
All Faculty Scholarship
The assumption that homeownership creates more politically and civically engaged citizens who contribute to local communities (as well as national democracy) dominates property law. This belief underlies influential theories of property and land use and justifies housing policies promoting homeownership and expanding homeownership’s reach. This Essay challenges the “citizenship virtues” of homeownership and contends that the evidence reveals a far more modest, and particularized, picture of citizenship effects than commonly assumed. I explore psychological, historical, and economic factors that may underlie the variable citizenship effects from homeownership. Some of these factors elucidate not only why owners and tenants perform similarly …
Strategic Default: The Popularization Of A Debate Among Contract Scholars, Meredith R. Miller
Strategic Default: The Popularization Of A Debate Among Contract Scholars, Meredith R. Miller
Scholarly Works
A June 2010 report estimates that roughly 20% of mortgage defaults in the first half of 2009 were “strategic.” “Strategic default” describes the situation where a home borrower has the financial ability to continue to pay her mortgage but chooses not to pay and walks away. The ubiquity of strategic default has lead to innumerable newspaper articles, blog posts, website comments and editorial musings on the morality of homeowners who can afford to pay but choose, instead, to walk away. This Article centers on the current public discourse concerning strategic default, which mirrors a continuing debate among scholars regarding whether …
"On The Take": The Black Box Of Credit Scoring And Mortgage Discrimination, Cassandra Jones Havard
"On The Take": The Black Box Of Credit Scoring And Mortgage Discrimination, Cassandra Jones Havard
All Faculty Scholarship
Subprime credit, a relatively new method of risk-based pricing, has been hailed as a way to open up markets and provide access to credit to those who would otherwise be excluded. Evidence suggests that subprime mortgage segmentation increases rather than reduces exclusionary practices in lending. Furthermore, what is unclear is how lenders determine who qualifies as a subprime borrower. This concern became manifested when studies demonstrated that minority borrowers, regardless of creditworthiness, are more likely to receive expensive, sub-prime loans. The disparity is properly attributed to lenders’ credit pricing policies which included discretionary increases despite the objectively-determined risk-based interest rate …
Stop The Stop The Beach Plurality!, J. Peter Byrne
Stop The Stop The Beach Plurality!, J. Peter Byrne
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The plurality opinion in Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection articulated a new doctrine of "judicial takings," and justified it with arguments drawing on text, history, precedent, and "common sense." This essay argues that the opinion falls makes a mockery of such forms of interpretation, represents raw pursuit of an ideological agenda, and indicates why the Regulatory Takings Doctrine more generally should be abandoned or limited.
Mixed Messages On Mortgage Foreclosures, Roger Bernhardt
Mixed Messages On Mortgage Foreclosures, Roger Bernhardt
Publications
A review of recent California decisions involving challenges to mortgage foreclosures.
The Game Is Afoot!: The Significance Of Donative Transfers In The Sherlock Holmes Canon, Stephen R. Alton
The Game Is Afoot!: The Significance Of Donative Transfers In The Sherlock Holmes Canon, Stephen R. Alton
Faculty Scholarship
This article presents a recently discovered and previously unpublished manuscript written by John H. Watson, M.D., and annotated by Professor Stephen Alton. Dr. Watson’s manuscript records an extended conversation that took place between the good doctor and his great friend, the renowned consulting detective Mr. Sherlock Holmes, regarding issues of gratuitous transfers of property – issues involving inheritances, wills, and trusts – that have arisen in some of the great cases solved by Mr. Holmes. This felicitous discovery confirms something that Professor Alton has long known: these gratuitous transfer issues permeate many of these adventures. Often, the action in the …
Proposed Exactions, Timothy M. Mulvaney
Proposed Exactions, Timothy M. Mulvaney
Faculty Scholarship
In the abstract, the site-specific ability to issue conditional approvals offers local governments the flexible option of permitting a development proposal while simultaneously requiring the applicant to offset the project’s external impacts. However, the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed the exercise of this option in Nollan and Dolan by establishing a constitutional takings framework unique to exaction disputes. This exaction takings construct has challenged legal scholars on several fronts for the better part of the past two decades. For one, Nollan and Dolan place a far greater burden on the government in justifying exactions it attaches to a development approval than …
Slides: Adapting To Climate Change: Lessons Learnt From The Australian Water Experience, Will Fargher
Slides: Adapting To Climate Change: Lessons Learnt From The Australian Water Experience, Will Fargher
Conversation with Water Management Reps from Colorado and Australia: "Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Australia" (February 14)
Presenter: Will Fargher, National Water Commission, Australian Government
18 slides [4 have titles only and are missing images]
Slides: Environmental Water In Australia, Chris Arnott
Slides: Environmental Water In Australia, Chris Arnott
Conversation with Water Management Reps from Colorado and Australia: "Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Australia" (February 14)
Presenter: Chris Arnott, Managing Director, Alluvium Consulting
30 slides
Solar Rights For Texas Property Owners, Sara Bronin
Solar Rights For Texas Property Owners, Sara Bronin
Faculty Articles and Papers
In response to Jamie France's note, "A Proposed Solar Access Law for the State of Texas," Professor Bronin urges future commentators to focus on three additional areas of inquiry related to proposed solar rights regimes. Bronin argues that such proposals would be strengthened by discussion of potential legal challenges to the proposals, related political issues, and renewable energy microgrids.Ms. France’s proposal for the State of Texas includes the elimination of preexisting private property restrictions that negatively affect solar access. Bronin argues that this proposal would be strengthened by a discussion of potential challenges under federal and state takings clauses. Additionally, …
Series Llcs In Real Estate Transactions, Bradley T. Borden, Mathews Vattamala
Series Llcs In Real Estate Transactions, Bradley T. Borden, Mathews Vattamala
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Great American Housing Bubble : The Road To Collapse, Robert M. Hardaway
The Great American Housing Bubble : The Road To Collapse, Robert M. Hardaway
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
In the aftermath of the American housing collapse in 2008, many ask why. The Great American Housing Bubble: The Road to Collapse asks a different and more fundamental question - how the bubble was created in the first place. To answer that question, it examines the causes, both political and economic, of the American housing bubble created between 1940 and 2007. Those causes encompass everything from federal income tax subsidies for housing to local exclusionary policies, banking, accounting, real estate appraisal, and credit agency rating practices and policies. The book also takes into account the impact of greed, government regulation, …
Paying For The Past: Addressing Past Property Violations In South Africa, Bernadette Atuahene
Paying For The Past: Addressing Past Property Violations In South Africa, Bernadette Atuahene
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
South Africa’S Land Reform Crisis: Eliminating The Legacy Of Apartheid, Bernadette Atuahene
South Africa’S Land Reform Crisis: Eliminating The Legacy Of Apartheid, Bernadette Atuahene
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Property Rights And The Demands Of Transformation, Bernadette Atuahene
Property Rights And The Demands Of Transformation, Bernadette Atuahene
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
“I Coulda Been A Contender”: Lost Profits After A Contract Breach, Roger Bernhardt
“I Coulda Been A Contender”: Lost Profits After A Contract Breach, Roger Bernhardt
Publications
This article forewarns litigators and transactionalists of the potential pitfalls regarding lost profits where a seller breaches a contract ti convey property. Considerations cover the various stages of a purchase agreement from negotiating the deal, conducting litigation, and introducing evidence.
New Ccp §580e: Deficiency Protection For Certain Short Sales, Roger Bernhardt
New Ccp §580e: Deficiency Protection For Certain Short Sales, Roger Bernhardt
Publications
This article discusses the addition of CCP 580e to the current antideficiency statutes, the kinds of borrowers protected and lenders affected. The article coves the new 580e exceptions and the protection it provides in short sales.
The Social Function Of Property And The Human Capacity To Flourish, Colin Crawford
The Social Function Of Property And The Human Capacity To Flourish, Colin Crawford
Publications
This Article offers suggestions about the appropriate definition of the five words "the social function of property"-so pregnant with meaning and promise, yet for many so ill defined. Although the Article does not address the development of the notion of the social function of property within a particular national tradition or experience, it makes reference to a wide range (with respect both to location and type of property) of examples from across Latin America and the Caribbean. In doing so, the Article seeks to do three things. First, it makes the normative case that "the social function of property" can …
Opt-In Or Opt-Out?, Rachel Bernstein
Opt-In Or Opt-Out?, Rachel Bernstein
Maria Dittman Library Research Competition: Student Award Winners
No abstract provided.
Consumer Protection Initiatives In The Eu Mortgage Market: A Behavioral Economics Based Critique And Proposal, 25 Temp. Int'l & Comp. L.J. 1 (2011), Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin
Consumer Protection Initiatives In The Eu Mortgage Market: A Behavioral Economics Based Critique And Proposal, 25 Temp. Int'l & Comp. L.J. 1 (2011), Debra Pogrund Stark, Jessica M. Choplin
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Adverse Possession, Private-Zoning Waiver & Desuetude: Abandonment & Recapture Of Property And Liberty Interests, 44 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 557 (2011), Scott Andrew Shepard
Adverse Possession, Private-Zoning Waiver & Desuetude: Abandonment & Recapture Of Property And Liberty Interests, 44 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 557 (2011), Scott Andrew Shepard
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
Adverse-possession doctrine labors under a pair of disabilities: a hesitancy by theorists to embrace the abandonment-and-recapture principle that informs the doctrine, and a substantial unwillingness of governments to abandon an antiquated and outmoded maxim shielding them from the doctrine's important work. Removing these disabilities will allow a series of positive outcomes. First, it will demonstrate that all would-be adverse possessors, not just those acting "in good faith" or with possessory intent, should enjoy the fruits of the doctrine. Second, it will provide valuable additional means by which the public may monitor the performance of government employees, and additional discipline to …
A Psychological Investigation Of Consumer Vulnerability To Fraud: Legal And Policy Implication, 35 Law & Psychol. Rev. 61 (2011), Jessica M. Choplin, Debra Pogrund Stark, Jasmine N. Ahmad
A Psychological Investigation Of Consumer Vulnerability To Fraud: Legal And Policy Implication, 35 Law & Psychol. Rev. 61 (2011), Jessica M. Choplin, Debra Pogrund Stark, Jasmine N. Ahmad
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Finding Possession: Labor, Waste And The Evolution Of Property, Jill M. Fraley
Finding Possession: Labor, Waste And The Evolution Of Property, Jill M. Fraley
Scholarly Articles
Although possession has long been intimately linked to labor, recent historical work on land claims during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries suggests that the clash of divergent legal cultures of possession drove the two apart. This clash yielded an American concept of possession much more deeply connected to industrialization than the traditional understanding of labor. By providing evidence of how our concept of labor was industrialized, this article questions the outcomes in modem possession cases, particularly as they impact development and environmental preservation in rural areas.
An Evolving Foreclosure Landscape: The Ibanez Case And Beyond, Peter R. Pitegoff, Laura S. Underkuffler
An Evolving Foreclosure Landscape: The Ibanez Case And Beyond, Peter R. Pitegoff, Laura S. Underkuffler
Faculty Publications
Mortgage securitization, subprime lending, a persistently weak housing market, and an explosion of residential mortgage defaults – today’s homeowners and banks face a new and challenging landscape. Recently, courts in several states have issued decisions that alter the terrain for mortgage foreclosures. In Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York, among other states, courts have dismissed foreclosure actions on the basis of what might seem to be highly technical deficiencies in the pleading or proof. The most well-known–and controversial–in this cluster of cases is U.S. Bank National Ass’n v. Ibanez, decided by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts this year. In …
How United States V. Jones Can Restore Our Faith In The Fourth Amendment, Erica Goldberg
How United States V. Jones Can Restore Our Faith In The Fourth Amendment, Erica Goldberg
School of Law Faculty Publications
United States v. Jones, issued in January of this year, is a landmark case that has the potential to restore a property-based interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to prominence. In 1967, the Supreme Court abandoned its previous Fourth Amendment framework, which had viewed the prohibition on unreasonable searches in light of property and trespass laws, and replaced it with a rule protecting the public’s reasonable expectations of privacy. Although the Court may have intended this reasonable expectations test to provide more protection than a test rooted in property law, the new test in fact made the Justices’ subjective views about …
The Properties Of Instability: Markets, Predation, Racialized Geography, And Property Law, Audrey Mcfarlane
The Properties Of Instability: Markets, Predation, Racialized Geography, And Property Law, Audrey Mcfarlane
All Faculty Scholarship
A central, symbolic image supporting property ownership is the image of stability. This symbol motivates most because it allows for settled expectations, promotes investment, and fulfills a psychological need for predictability. Despite the symbolic image, property is home to principles that promote instability, albeit a stable instability. This Article considers an overlooked but fundamental issue: the recurring instability experienced by minority property owners in ownership of their homes. This is not an instability one might attribute solely to insufficient financial resources to retain ownership, but instead reflects an ongoing pattern, exemplified throughout the twentieth century, of purposeful involuntary divestment of …
The Due Process Rights Of Residential Tenants In Mortgage Foreclosure Cases., Henry Rose
The Due Process Rights Of Residential Tenants In Mortgage Foreclosure Cases., Henry Rose
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
2010: It Was A Very Good Year…To Die--Or Was It?, S. Alan Medlin, F. Ladson Boyle, Howard M. Zaritsky
2010: It Was A Very Good Year…To Die--Or Was It?, S. Alan Medlin, F. Ladson Boyle, Howard M. Zaritsky
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Property Rights In Land, Agricultural Capitalism, And The Relative Decline Of Pre-Industrial China, Taisu Zhang
Property Rights In Land, Agricultural Capitalism, And The Relative Decline Of Pre-Industrial China, Taisu Zhang
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Property Rules And Defensive Conduct In Tort Law Theory, Keith N. Hylton
Property Rules And Defensive Conduct In Tort Law Theory, Keith N. Hylton
Faculty Scholarship
What role does defensive conduct play in a utilitarian theory of tort law? Why are rational (as opposed to instinctive) defensive actions permitted by tort doctrine?
To address these questions I will build on the property and liability rules framework. I argue that defensive conduct plays an important role in establishing the justification for and understanding the function of property rules, such as trespass doctrine. I show that when defensive actions are taken into account, property rules are socially preferable to liability rules in low transaction cost settings, because they obviate costly defensive actions. I extend the framework to provide …