土地、住房和产权倡议

The ILHPR aims to develop a generation of real e状态 and land use attorneys with expertise in community development, 遗产规划, 保护和加强产权. The Initiative seeks to guide these students toward successful career paths that also help them use their legal skills to benefit disadvantaged communities with property-related challenges. The program is developing a recommended real e状态 curriculum and will encourage students to access the rich experiential learning opportunities BC Law makes available to its students, 包括倡议组织正在创建的.

国际人权事务委员会帮助在当地制定立法和政策解决方案, 状态, 在联邦层面推进弱势群体的财产权. 该项目支持托马斯·米切尔教授正在进行的立法工作 统一分割继承人财产法 当时被23个州和其他司法管辖区采用, 其他几个州也在考虑, making it the most successful uniform real property act the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has promulgated in the past 30 years. Professor 米切尔 also developed a proposal the ULC approved for a second uniform act to help enable heirs’ property owners to escape the gridlock that has prevented many such owners from being able to better manage their properties and to use these properties for wealth-generating and other valuable purposes. 统一法案的项目即将得到联盟的最终批准. 在马萨诸塞州和其他地方, the ILHPR hopes to build support for community-informed legislative and municipal proposals to stabilize property rights in disadvantaged communities.

The ILHPR spurs theoretical and applied research into critical property issues affecting disadvantaged communities, 赞助的会议, 座谈会, 研讨会, 研讨会, 还有其他聚会. Some of the research is mostly intended to advance the knowledge in property- and community development-related areas of the law. Other research is designed to help advance the development of legal reform and policy solutions to certain property-related issues various communities face. The Initiative embraces a law and society approach to property research by using and combining many methodologies. 除了学术, 许多这样的集会对其他选区开放, 包括学生, 政府官员, 公众. 该计划的首次会议是2023年 土地流失、赔偿及房屋政策会议.

The ILHPR seeks to promote the professional development of both attorneys and community practitioners by strengthening their expertise in 遗产规划, 房地产相关事项, 以及代表弱势群体的社区发展. 除了, the ILHPR seeks to engage with communities both to learn from them in order to inform the work of the Initiative and to be of service to them. That service includes sponsoring events such as community legal education programs designed to help community members better understand the laws that impact the property challenges they face.