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Professor Florence Wagman Roisman has published an article, “Indiana Landlord-Tenant Law: An Important Step Forward in Theory Needs to be Made in Real Practice,” in IU McKinney’s Indiana Law Review.

In the article, Professor Roisman discusses the revolution that took place in landlord-tenant law during the 1970s and how this stalled in Indiana for two decades until an Indiana Supreme Court ruling in Rainbow Realty Group v. Carter in 2019. The piece discusses doctrinal developments and procedural changes that are needed so the decision of the Indiana General Assembly and Indiana Supreme Court can take effect.

Professor Roisman is the William F.  Harvey Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Professor at IU McKinney. She was part of the “revolution” discussed in the article, serving as one of several counsel in many pertinent housing cases during the 1970s. She teaches property, the civil rights movement (law and social change), housing discrimination and segregation, administrative law, real estate finance, housing & development law, comparative housing law, and homelessness and the law at the law school.