Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted on “Morning Edition” (NPR) in a piece about whether Wall Street investment houses knew that they were packaging bad loans for securitization. “It’s amazing if any investment bank agreed to a maximum number of loans they would kick back for defects. That means that they were willing to accept junk.
Associate Dean Tim Canova was featured in the Orange County Register’s Mortgage Insider, in a piece entitled “Did the agencies rating mortgage bonds let greed trump common sense?” Dean Canova was quizzed about the agencies and their role in the housing boom and its subsequent collapse. In the wide ranging interview, Dean Canova tackled some
Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, in a story entitled “In mortgage market, ‘walkaway’ homeowners may be urban myth,” which discussed whether homeowners are walking away from their mortgages . Excerpt: “So many of the loans made were irresponsible — for the borrowers and for the lenders,” said Kurt Eggert, an
Professor Donald Kochan has published an op-ed in Los Angeles Daily Journal, entitled “Hungry for Precedent,” in which he builds on an ongoing project regarding judging and precedent.
Dean John Eastman was interviewed this week on the television news program, “Daybreak OC,” where he discussed the constitutional implications of the recent City of Orange dog barking / free speech controversy and the California home schooling decision. “Daybreak OC” is a weekday morning newscast for all of Southern California that focuses on the news,
Professor John Hall was invited to present a paper, “The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Search for Legitimacy in an Environment of Distrust, Corruption and Mismanagement,” at the Southeast Asia Forum at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. His paper will address topics from his various op-eds in Wall Street Journal, Christian Science
Professor Danny Bogart was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), the premier organization for real estate and property law lawyers in the United States. ACREL produces CLE papers and events as well as position papers on lawyer ethics and practice. For more information about the organization, see www.acrel.org.
Professor Francine Lipman presented her paper “Taxation and Undocumented Immigrants: Separate, Unequal and Without Representation” on May 8, 2008 at “Undocumented Hispanic Immigrants in the United States: Problems, Benefits and Prospects,” a one-day conference at the University of North Texas to provide objective research about undocumented immigration. Learn more…
Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in a story in the Los Angeles Times entitled “Lenders derail plan to let bankruptcy judges modify mortgages.” Although some lenders have offered to work out voluntary modifications with strapped borrowers, subject to strict conditions, “there are a lot of structural barriers to loan modifications, and a voluntary system doesn’t
Professor Kochan presented “Hobbesian Man, Lockean World – Have We Solved the Conflict? Eminent Domain and the State as the Proverbial Hobbesian Man in the Displacement of Property Rights” at the University of San Diego School of Law. Comments will be provided by J. David Breemer of the Pacific Legal Foundation.