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Nestor M. Davidson
Professor of Law
Director, Fordham Urban Law Center


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Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023
Email: ndavidson@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 212.636.6195
Office: Room 439
Office Hours: Monday, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and by appointment

Articles and Essays

• The Mobility Case for Regionalism, 47 U.C. Davis L. Rev. (forthcoming 2013) (forthcoming 2013) (with Sheila R. Foster)

• New Formalism in the Aftermath of the Housing Crisis, 93 B.U.L. Rev. (forthcoming 2013)

• Property and Identity: Vulnerability and Insecurity in the Housing Crisis, 47 Harv. C.R-C.L. L. Rev. 119 (2012)

•  Property’s Morale, 110 Mich. L. Rev.437 (2011)

• 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)

• Values and Value Creation in Public-Private Transactions, 94 Iowa L. Rev. 938 (2009)

• Property and Relative Status, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 757 (2009)

• 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)

• Cooperative Localism: Federal-Local Collaboration in an Era of State Sovereignty, 93 Va. L. Rev. 959 (2007)

 Relational Contracts in the Privatization of Social Welfare: The Case of Housing, 24 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 263 (2006)


Books and Chapters  

• Crisis and the Public-Private Divide in Property, in The Public Nature of Private Property (2011) (with Rashm Dyal-Chand)

• The Bullhorn and the Bell Jar: Hernando de Soto and Communication Through Title, in Hernando de Soto and Property in a Market Economy (2010)

• The Value of Lawyering in Affordable Housing Transactions, in Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships (2009)

• Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships (co-editor, with Robin Paul Malloy) (2009)


Symposium Contributions and Other Works

•  Sketches for a Hamiltonian Vernacular as a Social Function of Property, 80 Fordham L. Rev.101 (2011)

• Fostering Regionalism: Comment on The Promise and Perils of “New Regionalist” Approaches to Sustainable Communities, 38 Fordham Urb. L. J. 675 (2011)

• Judicial Takings and State Action:  On Rereading Shelley after Stop the Beach Renourishment, 6 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y (2011)

• Notaries and Legal Professionals, in The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home (2011)

• Elevate 2009: Climate Change and the New Frontiers of Urban Development, 80 U. Colo. L. Rev. (2009) (with William Shutkin)

• Comment, Vertical Learning: On Baker and Rodriguez’s Constitutional Home Rule and Judicial Scrutiny, 86 Denv. U.L. Rev. 1425 (2009)

• Comment, Reconciling People and Place in Housing and Community Development Policy, 17 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol’y 1 (2009)

• Comment, Rights as a Functional Guide for Service Provision in Homeless Advocacy, 26 St. Louis Univ. Pub. L. Rev. 45 (2007)

• Comment, “Housing First” for the Chronically Homeless: Challenges of a New Service Model, 15 J. Aff. Hous. & Comm. Dev. L. 125 (2006)

• Note, Constitutional Mass Torts: Sovereign Immunity and the Human Radiation Experiments, 96 Colum. L. Rev. 1203 (1996)