Community, Home, and Identity

Presenting eight papers from a conference held at the Georgetown University Law Center, the first annual meeting of the Association for Law, Property, and Society (date not stated), this compilation is concerned, broadly, with how the law affects home and community, and how the law should affect these fundamental aspects of identity. So states Diamond (Georgetown U.) in the preface, whose own contribution is on de-concentrating poverty. He worked with co-editor Turnipseed (Syracuse U.) to assemble the essays, which address land use and legal culture in the 19th-century southwest United States, foundations of federal housing policy, regulation of home mortgage lending transactions, and cohabitation and ownership disputes in England and Wales, among other topics. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Michael Diamond is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where he is the Director of Georgetowna€?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.