Ezra Rosser

American University - Washington College of Law

Professor of Law

4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20016

United States

http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/

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“  My most recent book is "A Nation Within: Navajo Land and Economic Development (Cambridge University Press 2021)."  ”

Scholarly Papers (39)

1.

On Becoming 'Professor:' A Semi-Serious Look in the Mirror

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 215, 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 21 Jun 2009
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Parody, Legal Academy, Professoriate, Privilege, Wealth, Socio-Economics

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Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice (2d Ed, 2021)

Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice, Wolter Kluwers Law & Business (2d Ed, 2021)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2020
Stanford Law School, USC Gould School of Law, American University - Washington College of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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poverty law, law and poverty, access to justice, antipoverty law

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The Ambition and Transformative Potential of Progressive Property

101 California Law Review 107 (2013), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-13
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 08 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
Downloads 539 (83,560)
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Property Law, Acquisition, Conquest, Redlining, Slavery, Jim Crow, Law and Economics, Progressive Property

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Customary Law: The Way Things Were, Codified

Tribal Law Journal, Vol. 8, p. 18, 2008, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2009-15
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Apr 2009
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Indian, Native American, Customary Law, Tribal Courts, Navajo, Indian Law

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Obligations of Privilege

NYU Review of Law & Social Change, Vol. 32, p. 1, 2007, American University, WCL Research Paper
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2008
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Obligations, Poverty, Income, Duty of Rescue, Wealthy, Privilege, Progressive Taxation

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Immigrant Remittances

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, November 2008, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 08-40
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2008
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Remittances, Latin America, Development, Poverty, Law and Development, Microcredit, Land-titling

Remittances

American University, WCL Research
Posted: 24 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2008
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law

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Remittances, Latin American, Development, Poverty

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The Law of F∙R∙I∙E∙N∙D∙S

Hedgehogs & Foxes (Oct. 14, 2022)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 17 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2022
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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This Land is My Land, this Land is Your Land: Markets and Institutions for Economic Development on Native American Land

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 47, p. 245, 2005
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 13 Nov 2004
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Law and Economics, Native American, Indian, Reservation, New Institutional Economics

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Destabilizing Property

Ezra Rosser, Destabilizing Property, 48 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 397 (2015), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2015-1
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 22 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2016
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Property, Inequality, Poverty, New Property, Reliance Interest, Destabilization

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The Nature of Representation: The Cherokee Right to a Congressional Delegate

Boston University Public Interest Law Journal, Vol. 15, No. 91, Fall 2005
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 Nov 2005
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
Downloads 281 (174,775)
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Congress, Representation, Cherokee, Indian, Removal, Delegate, New Echota

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Ahistorical Indians and Reservation Resources

Environmental Law, Vol. 40, p. 437, 2010, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-02
Number of pages: 109 Posted: 22 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2010
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Indian, Navajo, Native American, Environmental Law, Coal, Power Plant, Economic Development, Natural Resource Law

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Rural Housing and Code Enforcement: Navigating between Values and Housing Types

Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Vol. 13, p. 33, 2006
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 Nov 2005
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Rural, Housing, Building Codes, Warranty of Habitability, Indian, Reservation, Rural Poor

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The Trade-Off between Self-Determination and the Trust Doctrine: Tribal Government and the Possibility of Failure

Arkansas Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 291, 2005
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 05 Feb 2005
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Indian, Native American, Trust, Self-Determination, Navajo Nation, White Mountain Apache

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Displacing the Judiciary: Customary Law and the Threat of a Defensive Tribal Council: A Book Review of Raymond D. Austine, Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Goverance (2009)

America Indian Law Review, Vol. 34, p. 379, 2011, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-08
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2011
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Navajo, Customary Law, Indian Law, Self-Determination, Tribal Courts, Tribal Council

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Protecting Non-Indians from Harm: The Property Consequences of Indians

Oregon Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 1, 2008, American University WCL Research Paper No. 08-42
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Indian Law, Property Law, Sherrill, Oneida, Proximity Pricing, GIS

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The Euclid Proviso

96 WASH. L. REV. 811 (2021), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2021-18
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 17 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2021
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Zoning, Property, Affordable Housing, Euclid

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Offsetting and the Consumption of Social Responsibility

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 89, 2011, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2011-07, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan Working Paper No. 2011
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 03 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2011
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Offsetting, Consumption, Environmental Offsetting, Poverty, Carbon Credits

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Tribes, Land, and the Environment (Introduction)

TRIBES, LAND, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, Sarah Krakoff & Ezra Rosser eds., Published by Ashgate, ISBN 978-1-4094-2062-0, 2012
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 05 Jul 2012
Sarah Krakoff and Ezra Rosser
University of Colorado Law School and American University - Washington College of Law
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Indians, Native Americans, Indian Tribes, Indian Nations, Environmental Law, Reservations, Property Law, Indigenous

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Exploiting the Poor: Housing, Markets, and Vulnerability

126 Yale Law Journal Forum 458 (2017)., American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2017-09
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2017
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Eviction, Evicted, Poverty, Poverty Law, Housing Law, Housing, Exploitation, Inequality

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The Poverty Law Canon: Case Supplement

The Poverty Law Canon: Case Supplement (Marie Failinger & Ezra Rosser eds., Univ. of Michigan Press, 2018)
Number of pages: 152 Posted: 09 Aug 2018
Marie A. Failinger and Ezra Rosser
Mitchell Hamline School of Law and American University - Washington College of Law
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poverty law, legal history, Supreme Court

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Children’s Consumption of Migration: Remittances and Food Security

Border-Lines, Vol. 5, p. 181, 2011
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 May 2012
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Remittances, Food Security, Immigrants

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Getting to Know the Poor

Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, Vol. 14, p. 66, 2011, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2011-25
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Sep 2011
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Poverty, Voices of the Poor, Welfare, Class, Segregation

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Poverty Offsetting

Harvard Law and Policy Review, Vol. 6, p. 179, 2012, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-14
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Mar 2012
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Offsetting, Consumption, Poverty, Carbon Offsetting, Charity

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Laying the Foundation: The Private Rental Market and Affordable Housing

44 Fordham Urban Law Journal 499 (2017), American University, WCL Research Paper 2017-15
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2017
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Property Law, Housing Law, Housing, Affordable Housing, Eviction, Book Review

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Affirmatively Resisting

50 Florida State University Law Review 123 (2023), American University, WCL Research Paper 2022-17
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 19 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 03 May 2023
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Fair Housing, Administrative Law, Cooperative Federalism, Federalism, Fair Housing Act, Uncooperative Federalism, Presidential Administration, Segregation, Housing

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Caution, Cooperative Agreements, and the Actual State of Things: A Reply to Professor Fletcher

Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 57, 2006
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Oct 2006
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Indians, Cooperative Agreements, Sovereignty, Native Americans, Tribes

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Race, Space and Democracy: Locally-Based Strategies for Development – Panel Discussion from Fourth National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Hosted at the American University Washington College of Law

44 The Harbinger 1 (2019), University of Baltimore School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 27 Nov 2019
University of Baltimore - School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, American University - Washington College of Law and University of Mississippi - School of Law
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gentrification, community development, race, cultural capital, mixed-income housing

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A Nation Within: Navajo Land and Economic Development

Cambridge University Press 2021, American University, WCL Research Paper 2022-01
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2022
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Navajo, Indian Law, Native American, Indigenous Peoples, Economic Development, Land, Oil, Uranium, Coal, Grazing

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Assumptions Regarding Indians and Judicial Humility: Thoughts from a Property Law Lens

Court Review, Vol. 45, No. 40, 2009, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 09-34
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 24 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2009
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Indian, Sovereignty, Oneida, Calabresi and Melamed

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Self-Determination, the Trust Doctrine, and Congressional Appropriations: Promise and Pitfalls of Federal Disentanglement from Indian Health Care

Fédéralisme et gouvernance autochtone/Federalism and Aboriginal Governance (Ghislain Otis & Martin Papillon eds., 2013)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Jul 2019
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Navajo, Indian Health Service, Self-Determination, Indian Law, Native American, Trust Doctrine, Navajo Nation

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Table des matières: Fédéralisme Et Gouvernance Autochtone (Table of Contents for: Federalism and Aboriginal Governance)

Presses de l'Université Laval
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 31 Mar 2014
University of Ottawa - Civil Law Section, School of Political Studies University of Ottawa, Université de Montréal - Faculty of Law, University of Montreal - Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario - Faculty of Law, Independent and American University - Washington College of Law
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Governance, Federalism, Aboriginal Peoples

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Introduction to Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty

Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty (Ezra Rosser ed., Cambridge University Press, 2019), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2020-14
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2020
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Poverty, Poverty Law, Welfare, Federalism

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Creating Space for Reservation Growth

FIU Law Review, Vol. 9:351, 2014, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2014-54
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 14 Dec 2014
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Indian Law, Tribal Economic Development, Reservation Economic Growth, Native American, Indian

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Promises of Nonstate Representatives

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 117, No. Pocket Part 118, 2007, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 08-26
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 24 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2017
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Indian Law, Cherokee, Congress, Representation, Delegates, New Echota

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Shelter, Mobility, and the Voucher Program

10 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal 85 (2021), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2021-14
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2022
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Housing, Public Housing, Housing Vouchers, Section 8, Housing Choice Voucher Program, Property, Moving to Opportunity, Raj Chetty

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Amiguity and the Academic: The Dangerous Attraction of Pan-Indian Legal Anaylsis

Harvard Law Review Forum, Vol. 119, p. 141, 2006
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 22 May 2006 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2016
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Indian Law, Native Americans, Tribal Sovereignty

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Natural Law, Assumptions, and Humility

9 Texas A&M University Journal of Property Law 653 (2023)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Jun 2023
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law
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Natural Law; Property Theory; Property Law; Use Rights

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The Poverty Law Canon: Exploring the Major Cases

The Poverty Law Canon: Exploring the Major Cases (Marie Failinger & Ezra Rosser eds., Univ. of Michigan Press, 2016), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2017-06
Posted: 26 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2017
Marie A. Failinger and Ezra Rosser
Mitchell Hamline School of Law and American University - Washington College of Law

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Poverty, Poverty Law, Goldberg, Dandridge, Supreme Court

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Anticipating De Soto: Allotment of Indian Reservations and the Dangers of Land-Titling

HERNANDO DE SOTO AND PROPERTY IN A MARKET ECONOMY, D. Benjamin Barros, ed., 2010
Posted: 02 Aug 2010
Ezra Rosser
American University - Washington College of Law

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Indian, Native American, Allotment, De Soto, Land-titling, El Salvador, informal housing, champa