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IU McKinney Professor Florence Wagman Roisman is one of the guests on the most recent episode of Aspen Publishing’s Leading Edge podcast. Professor Roisman and co-authors Stacy Seicshnaydre and Rigel Oliveri discuss their book, The Right to Fair Housing.

The book is the first of its kind and presents constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and sub-regulatory legal standards in the contexts of sales and rentals of housing; lending, appraisals, and homeowners’ insurance; affordable housing and community development; zoning; and related programs. The federally protected characteristics—race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and familial status—are covered extensively, with “sex” including sexual orientation and gender identity. The book presents historical and contemporary perspectives illustrating the ways in which law established and enabled residential segregation and inequality based on race and other classifications, as well as the ways in which law has provided some means of dismantling residential hierarchies.

Professor Roisman is a renowned legal scholar, particularly in the area of housing law. She is the William F.  Harvey Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Professor at IU McKinney. 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.