Full Description
Community, home, and identity are concepts that have concerned scholars in a variety of fields for some time. Legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and economists, among others, have studied the impacts of home and community on one's identity and how one's identity is manifested in one's home and in one's community. This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers about the connections between community, home and identity. Several chapters address how the law and lawyers contribute (or detract) from the creation and maintenance of community and, in some cases, the conscious destruction of communities. Others examine the protection of individual and group identities through rules related to property title and use of such things as Home and 'identity property'.
Contents
Chapter 1 Bordered Lands: Land Use, Legal Culture, and Community Development in the Nineteenth-Century Southwest, Allison Brownell Tirres; Chapter 2 'Shaping the Place' and the Ability to Exclude: Housing and Localism in England, Antonia Layard; Chapter 3 De-concentrating Poverty: De-constructing a Theory and the Failure of Hope, Michael Diamond; Chapter 4 Evaluating Legal Models of Affordable Home Ownership in England, Susan Bright, Nicholas Hopkins; Chapter 5 Foundations of Federal Housing Policy, David J. Reiss; Chapter 6 Evolving Ethical Standards in Property Law: A Study of Regulatory Perspectives Toward Home Mortgage Lending Transactions, Vincent Di Lorenzo; Chapter 7 Identity Property and the Inheritance of Family Cottages, Sarah E. Waldeck; Chapter 8 The 'Context' of Home: Cohabitation and Ownership Disputes in England and Wales, Hayward Andrew;
