Seminar: Property and Social Identity

Catalog description

Students explore the intersection of property law and social identity, including race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, disability, and gender. Focuses on how law attempts to manage social identity, and its impact on doctrine and practice of property law. Subsequently explores the legal framework of dispossession, the relationship of property to space and place-making, and the intersection of property law with revolution and repair. Special attention is paid to how each of these experiences has been at the locus of recent social events including the Black Lives Matter movement. Students examine cutting-edge issues, including environmental justice, real estate transactions, and land-use law, and prepare presentations on issues in diversity, equity and inclusion.