Professors Vicki Been and Ingrid Ellen
Spring 2014
Wednesday, 2:00-3:50PM
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 202
LAW-LW.10634.001
2 credits
This course, taught jointly by faculty of the Law School and the Wagner School, will allow students to explore the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of current debates in urban policy. We will meet with nationally prominent scholars in law, economics, urban planning, and public administration to discuss their works in progress. In the past, topics of the papers have included, e.g., the prospect that the rise of Black middle class suburbs may increase residential segregation, the capitalization of school spending into the value of homes, and the effect environmental regulations have on the price of housing. In background sessions, students learn the theory and methodology necessary to discuss the work in progress with its author. In colloquium sessions, students discuss the work with the author and other invited guests. Students submit written questions for the author and prepare short papers critiquing the work and the author's defense of the work.
[Spring 2014 Presentation Schedule TBA]
Spring 2012 Presenters
February 6th
Brendan O'Flaherty, Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Paper Topic: Does Homelessness Prevention Work? Evidence from New York City’s HomeBase Program(with Peter Messeri and SarenaGoodman)
February 13th
Matthew Desmond, Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows &Assistant Professor of Sociology and of SocialStudies, Harvard University
Paper Topic: Mechanisms of Neighborhood Selection: Why and How Poor Families Move
*Please request current draft from author
February 20th
Peter Rosenblatt, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Loyola University Chicago
Paper Topic: Why Poor People Move (and Where They Go): Residential Mobility, Selection, and
Stratification (with Stephanie DeLuca and Holly Wood)
March 6th
Vicki Been, Boxer Family Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Paper Topic: Urban Land Use Regulation: Are Homevoters Overtaking the Growth Machine?
(with Josiah Madar and Simon McDonnell)
March 13th
Nestor Davidson, Director, Fordham Urban Law Center;
Sheila Foster, Vice Dean, Albert A. Walsh Professor of Law, Co-Director Stein Center for Law & Ethics
Paper Topic: The Mobility Case for Regionalism
March 27th
Stephanie Stern, Irving S. Ribicoff Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law
School; Associate Professor of Law and Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar at the Illinois Institute
of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law
Paper Topic: The Dark Side of Town: The Social Capital Revolution in Residential Property
April 17th
J. Michael Collins, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper Topic: Mortgage Moratoria: Buying Time or Delaying the Inevitable?
April 24th
Stephanie Moulton, Assistant Professor, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State
University
Paper Topic: A Field Experiment of Post-Purchase Monitoring on the Financial Outcomes
of First-Time Homebuyers (with Caezilia Loibl, J. Michael Collins and Anya Samak)
May 1st
Kristopher S. Gerardi, Financial Economist and Associate Policy Adviser, Federal
Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Paper Topic: Foreclosure Externalities: Some New Evidence (with Eric Rosenblatt, Paul S. Willen
and Vincent W. Yao)
