2019 Texas A&M University School of Law 2019 Real Property Law Schmooze participants
This month, Texas A&M University School of Law held its third annual Real Property Law Schmooze. The invitation-only event, titled "Where do we go from here? Fair Housing and Community Development at a Crossroads," was hosted by Professors Lisa T. Alexander and Thomas W. Mitchell, co-directors of the law school's Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law. Professor Alexander, a Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow, has a joint appointment in Texas A&M University’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, and Professor Mitchell has a joint appointment in Texas A&M University’s Department of Agricultural Economics. 
Professor Lisa Alexander, Co-Director of the Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law, Texas A&M University School of Law
The mission of the Real Estate and Community Development Program is to create innovative research, curricular and experiential offerings, and policy solutions to meet both urban and rural property challenges in the 21st century. Since the program's inception, the law school has hosted an annual Real Property Law Faculty Workshop (aka the Real Property Law Schmooze) inviting leading scholars from across the nation to discuss forthcoming projects and research. 
Vicki L. Been, the Boxer Family ​professor of ​law at NYU Law School, ​affiliated ​professor of ​public ​policy of NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, ​faculty ​director at the NYU Furman Center, and ​former ​commissioner of ​housing ​preservation and development for the City of New York, ​was the Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law's Distinguished Real Property Law Keynote Speaker on February 1, 2019. Her presentation, "Inclusive Communities:  Learning from its False Premises, Fears, and Framing Choices, through the Lens of Gentrification," ​was open to the entire law school, including all first-year ​property ​law students, and ​was co-sponsored by the Texas A&M University School of Law Faculty Speaker Series. 
Professor Vicki L. Been, NYU Law, Distinguished Real Property Law Keynote Speaker 
This year the event's invited guests and breakout sessions included:

Fair Housing & Community Development: Where Do We Go from Here?

Nestor Davidson, Professor of Law, Director, Urban Law Center, Fordham University School of Law
Kristen Barnes, Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law
Scott Cummings, Professor of Law, Director, Legal Ethics and the Profession (LEAP), University of California Los Angeles Law School





Professor Melvin Kelley, Northeastern University School of Law
A Second Look at Protected Classes

Robert G. Schwemm, University of Kentucky School of Law
Melvin Kelley, Visiting Assistant Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
Robin Paul Malloy, Director Center on Property, Citizenship & Social Entrepreneurism, Syracuse University College of Law




Implementing Fair Housing and Community Development

Stacy Seichnaydre, Associate Professor of Law & Assoc. Dean for Experiential Learning, Tulane University School of Law
Courtney Anderson, Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University School of Law
Rigel Oliveri, Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law




Theorizing Fair Housing, Homelessness, and Justice

Lisa T. Alexander, Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law, Co-Director, Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law
Mark Roark, Visiting Professor, Southern University School of Law
Sophia House, Legal Fellow, NYU Furman Center, New York University School of Law 
Brandon Weiss, Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law (Visiting Clinical Professor, Yale Law School)


Professor Carol Brown, University of Richmond Law School


Property, Affordable Housing, and Equality

Michael Diamond, Professor of Law, Georgetown University School of Law
Carol Brown, Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law
John J. Infranca, Suffolk University School of Law



Dean Robert B. Ahdieh welcomed all participants. The following faculty affiliated with the Texas A&M Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law moderated the panels: Timothy Mulvaney, Milan Markovic, Aric K. Short, Luz Herrera, and Thomas W. Mitchell.  

"A great time was had by all and we look forward to next year’s Schmooze!" said Alexander. 
Dean Robert B. Ahdieh, Texas A&M University School of LawProfessor Scott Cummings, UCLA Law School; Professor Kirsten Barnes, University of Akron Law School; Professor Nestor Davidson, Fordham Law School; and Professor Timothy Mulvaney, Associate Dean for Research, Texas A&M University School of LawProfessor John Infranca, Suffolk University School of Law; Professor Carol Brown, University of Richmond School of Law; Professor Michael Diamond, Georgetown University School of Law; and Professor Thomas W. Mitchell, Co-Director of the Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law, Texas A&M University School of Law
  
Photos courtesy of Doug Thurman