Community, Home, and Identity

Michael Diamond is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where he is the Director of Georgetown’s Harrison Institute for Housing and Community Development and directs its Housing and Community Development Clinic. He also teaches Corporations and Property. He has published extensively on these and related subjects. Terry L. Turnipseed is Associate Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law. His research interests include eminent domain, sexual individual rights, spousal property rights upon death, trust fiduciary law, and transfer taxation. Teaching interests include voting rights, eminent domain, property, wills and trusts, estate planning, and estate and gift taxation. He has published widely in these and related areas.

Chapter 1 Bordered Lands: Land Use, Legal Culture, and Community Development in the Nineteenth-Century Southwest, Allison Brownell Tirres; Chapter 2 ‘Shaping the Place’ and the Ability to Exclude: Housing and Localism in England, Antonia Layard; Chapter 3 De-concentrating Poverty: De-constructing a Theory and the Failure of Hope, Michael Diamond; Chapter 4 Evaluating Legal Models of Affordable Home Ownership in England, Susan Bright, Nicholas Hopkins; Chapter 5 Foundations of Federal Housing Policy, David J. Reiss; Chapter 6 Evolving Ethical Standards in Property Law: A Study of Regulatory Perspectives Toward Home Mortgage Lending Transactions, Vincent Di Lorenzo; Chapter 7 Identity Property and the Inheritance of Family Cottages, Sarah E. Waldeck; Chapter 8 The ‘Context’ of Home: Cohabitation and Ownership Disputes in England and Wales, Hayward Andrew;