Publications
Works in Progress/Forthcoming
Per Se Non-Takings (with Timothy M. Mulvaney)
A Jurisprudence of Urbanism
Cities in Law: Urbanism as a Legal Phenomenon (forthcoming Cambridge University Press)
The Contract/Property Interface in Regulatory Perspective, 21 Eur. Rev. Cont. L. (forthcoming 2025)
Selected Scholarship (Chronological)
2024
Toponymy in Legal Perspective, in Names, Naming, and the Law: Onomastics, Identity, Power, and Policy (Routledge 2024) (with David Fagundes)
2023
Home Rulings, 2023 Wis. L. Rev. 1735 (2023)
Megalopolis Bound?, 24 Theoretical Inquiries L. 73 (2023)
Innovation in Digitalization and the Future of Fair Housing, Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies (2023)
Law in Place: Reflections on Rural and Urban Legal Paradigms, 50 Fordham Urb. L. J. 201 (2023) (with Alan R. Romero)
2023 Cooper-Walsh Issue: Local Government Structure Through a Legal Lens, Introduction, 50 Fordham Urb. L. J. 603 (2023)
2022
Do Local Governments Really Have Too Much Power? Understanding the National League of Cities’ Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century, 100 N.C. L. Rev. 1385 (2022) (with Richard C. Schragger)
Preemption of Police Reform: A Roadblock to Racial Justice, 94 Temp. L. Rev. 663 (2022) (with Marissa Roy and Rick Su)
2021
Local Constitutions, 99 Tex. L. Rev. 839 (2021)
Takings Localism, 121 Colum. L. Rev. 215 (2021) (with Timothy M. Mulvaney)
Sharing in Cities: Why Here? Why Now?, in Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021) (with John Infranca)
2020
The Fair Housing Act’s Original Sin: Administrative Discretion and the Persistence of Segregation, in Perspectives on Fair Housing (Penn University Press 2020) (with Eduardo Peñalver)
Much Obliged: Moral Psychology and the Social Obligation of Property (An Essay in Honor of Gregory Alexander), 29 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 551 (2020)
2019
The Dilemma of Localism in an Era of Polarization, 128 Yale L.J. 954 (2019)
Law and Neighborhood Names, 72 Vand. L. Rev. 757 (2019) (with David Fagundes)
The New State Preemption, the Future of Home Rule, and the Illinois Experience, 3 Illinois Municipal Pol’y J. 19 (2019) (with Laurie Reynolds)
2018
Property, Wellbeing, and Home: Positive Psychology and Property Law’s Foundations, in Law and the Precarious Home: Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times (Hart Publishing 2018)
The Place of the Sharing Economy, in The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy (Cambridge University Press 2018) (with John Infranca)
A Better Approach to Urban Opportunity, 27 J. Aff. Hous. & Comm. Dev. L. 449 (2019) (reviewing Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities: Reforming Urban Market Regulations (2018))
2017
Localist Administrative Law, 126 Yale L.J. 564 (2017)
Affordable Housing Law and Policy in an Era of Big Data, 44 Fordham Urb. L. J. 277 (2017)
The Urban in Law, in Defining the Urban: Interdisciplinary and Professional Perspectives (Routledge 2017)
2016
Resetting the Baseline of Ownership: Takings and Investor Expectations After the Bailouts, 75 Maryland L. Rev. 722 (2016)
The Sharing Economy as an Urban Phenomenon, 34 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 215 (2016) (with John Infranca)
Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Rucker: Public Housing as Housing of Last Resort, in The Poverty Law Canon: Exploring the Major Cases (Marie Failinger & Ezra Rosser eds., University of Michigan Press 2016)
2015
Regleprudence – at OIRA and Beyond, 103 Geo. L.J. 259 (2015) (with Ethan J. Leib)
2014
Nationalization and Necessity: Takings and a Doctrine of Economic Emergency, 3 Brigham-Kanner Prop. Rts. Conf. J. 187 (2014)
2013
The Mobility Case for Regionalism, 47 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 63 (2013) (with Sheila R. Foster)
New Formalism in the Aftermath of the Housing Crisis, 93 B.U. L. Rev. 389 (2013)
What is Urban Law? An Introductory Essay in Honor of the 40th Anniversary of the Fordham Urban Law Journal, 40 Fordham Urb. L. J. 1579 (2013)
A Most Useful Ball of Thread, 21 J. Aff. Hous. & Comm. Dev. L. 285 (2013) (reviewing Navigating HUD Programs: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Labyrinth)
2012
Property and Identity: Vulnerability and Insecurity in the Housing Crisis, 47 Harv. C.R-C.L. L. Rev. 119 (2012)
2011
Property’s Morale, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 437 (2011)
Sketches for a Hamiltonian Vernacular as a Social Function of Property, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 1053 (2011)
Crisis and the Public-Private Divide in Property, in The Public Nature of Private Property (2011) (with Rashmi Dyal-Chand)
Judicial Takings and State Action: On Rereading Shelley after Stop the Beach Renourishment, 6 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y 75 (2011)
Fostering Regionalism: Comment on The Promise and Perils of “New Regionalist” Approaches to Sustainable Communities, 38 Fordham Urb. L. J. 675 (2011)
2010
Property in Crisis, 78 Fordham L. Rev. 101 (2010) (with Rashmi Dyal-Chand)
Leaps and Bounds, 108 Mich. L. Rev. 957 (2010) (reviewing Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation)
The Bullhorn and the Bell Jar: Hernando de Soto and Communication Through Title, in Hernando de Soto and Property in a Market Economy (2010)
2009
Values and Value Creation in Public-Private Transactions, 94 Iowa L. Rev. 938 (2009)
Property and Relative Status, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 757 (2009)
Introduction, in Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships (with Robin Paul Malloy) (2009)
The Value of Lawyering in Affordable Housing Transactions, in Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships (2009)
Vertical Learning: On Baker and Rodriguez’s Constitutional Home Rule and Judicial Scrutiny, 86 Denv. U.L. Rev. 1425 (2009)
Reconciling People and Place in Housing and Community Development Policy, 17 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol’y 1 (2009)
2008
Standardization and Pluralism in Property Law, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1597 (2008)
The Problem of Equality in Takings, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (2008)
2007
Cooperative Localism: Federal-Local Collaboration in an Era of State Sovereignty, 93 Va. L. Rev. 959 (2007)
Rights as a Functional Guide for Service Provision in Homeless Advocacy, 26 St. Louis Univ. Pub. L. Rev. 45 (2007)
2006
Relational Contracts in the Privatization of Social Welfare: The Case of Housing, 24 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 263 (2006)
“Housing First” for the Chronically Homeless: Challenges of a New Service Model, 15 J. Aff. Hous. & Comm. Dev. L. 125 (2006)
Edited Volumes
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International and Comparative Urban Law Conference, City Square (2022) (editor, on-line collection)
Law and the New Urban Agenda (Routledge 2020) (co-editor, with Geeta Tewari)
The New Preemption Reader: Legislation, Cases, and Commentary on the Leading Challenge in Today’s State and Local Government Law (West Academic 2019) (co-editor, with Richard Briffault and Laurie Reynolds)
The Legal Power of Cities: Global Perspectives in Urban Law (Routledge 2018) (co-editor, with Geeta Tewari)
The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy (Cambridge University Press 2018) (co-editor, with John Infranca and Michèle Finck)
Law Between Buildings: Emergent Global Perspectives on Urban Law (Routledge 2017) (co-editor, with Nisha Mistry)
Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships (Ashgate 2009) (co-editor, with Robin Paul Malloy)
Casebooks & Treatises
Property Law: Rules, Policies and Practices (Aspen 8th ed. 2022; 7th ed. 2017; 6th ed. 2014) (with Bethany Berger, Eduardo M. Peñalver, and Joseph W. Singer)
Property (Aspen Student Treatise Series, 6th ed. 2022) (with Joseph W. Singer)
Cases and Materials on State and Local Government Law (West Academic 9th ed. 2022) (with Richard Briffault, Laurie Reynolds, Erin Scharff, and Rick Su)