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Whatever Happened To The Uniform Land Transactions Act?, Ronald B. Brown

Faculty Scholarship

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Teaching Real Property Law As Real Estate Lawyering, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This Article describes an alternative way of teaching the Property course so as to have students appreciate that the rules covered there are relevant to the everyday practice of law. It concentrates on the use lawyers make of those rules, rather than treating the rules as ends in themselves.

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Constructing A New Theoretical Framework For Home Improvement Financing, Julia Patterson Forrester Rogers

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

In this Article, I advocate modification of the law governing home improvement financing. In section I, I discuss the prevalence of home improvement scams, the dual system of home improvement financing available to affluent and poor homeowners, and the social cost of home improvement scams. Despite attempts by lawmakers to protect homeowners from unscrupulous home improvement contractors and lenders, home improvement scams remain a significant consumer problem. Most victims of such scams are poor, minority, and elderly homeowners. These homeowners obtain home improvements and home improvement financing through a system with tremendous potential for abuse. In this system, contractors and …