Law Between Buildings

Nisha Mistry serves as Director of the Fordham Urban Law Center at Fordham Law School. Previously, she served as a policy advisor to the City of Newark, New Jersey (U.S.A.) on matters related to manufacturing and industrial revitalization. She has also served as a Mayor’s Office Fellow and Nonresident Fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. Nestor M. Davidson is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Fordham Law School, as well as the Faculty Director of the Fordham Urban Law Center. Professor Davidson previously practiced with the firm of Latham & Watkins and served as Special Counsel and Principal Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

1 Local Autonomy and Constitutional Law: An Uncertain Relationship

[Richard Briffault]

2 Room to Live? Socio-legal Reflections on the United Kingdom’s Politics of Housing Space

[Helen Carr]

3 Building a Language of Municipal Bankruptcy and Insolvency on an Urban

Law Foundation

[Juliet Moringiello]

4 Crowdfunding in Asian Countries and its Interaction With Citizenship

[Chen Hung-Yi]

5 Consumer Financial Protection, Inclusion and Education: Connecting the Local to the Global

[Susan Block-Lieb]

6 Living in the Shadow of the Law: Urban Segregation, Poverty and Informality

[Jimena Suarez Ibarolla]

7 Informal Housing – Plurality in the City

[Julian Sidoli del Ceno]