Florence Wagman Roisman William F. Harvey Professor of Law Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 303 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 274-4479 Fax: (317) 278-3326 E-Mail: froisman@iupui.edu Web Page

Education

B.A. (High Honors, Distinction in English and in History, Phi Beta Kappa), 1959, University of Connecticut
LL.B. (cum laude), 1963, Harvard Law School

Courses

Property, housing discrimination and segregation, the civil rights movement, comparative housing law

Bio

Florence Wagman Roisman began practice at the Federal Trade Commission in 1963. In 1964, she joined the U.S. Department of Justice in the appellate section of the Civil Division. In 1967, she became staff attorney, and later managing attorney, for the D.C. Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP), initiating a 30-year association with the federally financed program of civil legal assistance to poor people. While at NLSP, she was co-counsel in several of the landlord-tenant cases that now appear in many property casebooks. Subsequent to her tenure with NLSP, she worked with the legal services program both in private practice and through the National Housing Law Project.

In 2000, she received the Thurgood Marshall Award given by the District of Columbia Bar. In 1989, she was the first recipient of the Kutak-Dodds Prize, awarded by the ABA's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Prof. Roisman received the inaugural Equal Justice Works Outstanding Law School Faculty Award in 2004 "for her dogged pursuit of equal justice and her pivotal role in nurturing a public interest ethic among law students."

She has taught full-time at Georgetown University Law Center and the law schools of the University of Maryland, Catholic University, and Widener University; she has taught part-time at the George Washington University National Law Center and the Antioch School of Law. In 2006 she was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow at Yale Law School. In 2002, she received a Trustee's Teaching Award from Indiana University. Professor Roisman serves on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Indiana, the Society of American Law Teachers, and the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, of which she was a co-founder.

The substantive focus of her practice, teaching, and writing has been on low-income housing, homelessness, and housing discrimination and segregation.

Publications

Books and Chapters

Foreword and Dedication, 2004 FEDERAL PRACTICE MANUEL FOR LEGAL AID ATTORNEYS (Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law 2004)

Is Integration Possible: Of Course . . ., in CHALLENGES TO EQUALITY: POVERTY AND RACE IN AMERICA 16 (Chester Hartman ed. 2001); INTER-RACIAL AMERICA.

Legal Services Federal Practice Manual (NLADA 1989) (associate editor).

Legal Strategies for Protecting Low Income Housing, AMERICA'S HOUSING CRISIS: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? (Chester Hartman ed. 1983).

Chapters on Injunctions and Declaratory Judgments, Motions, and Advocacy, FEDERAL LITIGATION MANUAL (1981); member, Editorial Board for 1983 and 1984 supplements.


Law Review and Journal Articles

Living Together: Ending Racial Discrimination and Segregation in Housing, 41 Ind. L. Rev. 507 (2008)

The Right to Remain: Common Law Protections for Security of Tenure, 86 N.C. L. Rev. 817 (2008)

Using International and Foreign Human Rights Law in Public Interest Advocacy, 18 Ind. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 1

End Residential Racial Segregation: Build Communities that look like America, Harvard Law & Pol'y, Vol. 2 #1, 2008 (online at http://www.hlpronline.com/Roisman.pdf)

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in Regional Housing Markets: The Baltimore Public Housing Desegregation Litigation, 42 Wake Forest L. Rev. 333 (2007).

Save New Orleans’ Public Housing, 16 Poverty & Race 8 (2007).

The Housing Famine for Veterans: A Call for Congressional Action, Journal of Housing & Community Development (Sept./Oct. 2005, pages 6-11)

National Ingratitude: The Egregious Deficiencies of the United States' Housing Programs for Veterans and the "Public Scandal" of Veterans' Homelessness, 38 Ind. L. Rev. 103 (2005)

Keeping The Promise: Ending Racial Discrimination and Segregation in Federally Financed Housing, 48 How. L.J. 913 (2005)

How Litigation Can Lead To Substantial Relief for Clients and Significant Social Change: A Review of Beth Harris, Defending The Right to a Home: The Power of Anti-Poverty Lawyers, 38 Clearinghouse Rev.759 (2005).

The Impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 on Racially Discriminatory Donative Transfers, 53 Alabama L. Rev. 463 2002).

Teaching About Inequality, Race, and Property, 46 St. Louis L. Rev. 665 (2002).

Housing, Poverty and Racial Justice: How Civil Rights Laws Can Redress the Housing Problems of Poor People Clearinghouse Rev. 21 (2002)

Opening the Suburbs to Racial Integration: Lessons for the 21st Century, 23 Western New England L. Rev. 65 (2001).

The Lawyer as Abolitionist: Ending Homelessness and Poverty in Our Time, 19 Saint Louis U. Public L. Rev. 237 (2000); also in REPRESENTING THE POOR AND HOMELESS: INNOVATIONS IN ADVOCACY 21 (Sidney D. Watson ed. 2001).

Long Overdue: Desegregation Litigation and Next Steps for HUD to End Discrimination and Segregation in the Public Housing and Section 8 Existing Housing Programs, 4 Cityscape 171 (1999).

Sustainable Development in Suburbs and Their Cities: The Environmental and Financial Imperatives of Racial, Ethnic, and Economic Inclusion, 3 Widener L. Symp. J. 87 (1998).

Mandates Unsatisfied: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program and the Civil Rights Laws, 52 Miami L. Rev. 1011 (1998).

The Role of the State, The Necessity of Race-Conscious Remedies, And Other Lessons from the Mount Laurel Study, 27 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1386 (1997).

The Lessons of American Apartheid: The Necessity and Means of Promoting Residential Racial Integration, 81 Iowa L. Rev. 479 (1995).

Intentional Racial Discrimination and Segregation by the Federal Government as a Principal Cause of Concentrated Poverty: A Response to Schill and Wachter, 143 U.Pa. L. Rev. 1351 (1995).

Housing Mobility and Life Opportunities, 27 Clearinghouse Rev. 335 (1993) (with Hilary Botein).

Improving Government-Assisted Housing Programs, 1 Georgetown J. on Fighting Poverty 49-51 (1993).

Improving and Expanding Housing Opportunities for Poor People of Color, 24 Clearinghouse Rev. 312 (1990) (with Philip Tegeler).

Preventing or Ameliorating Displacement in Connection with Section 8, 14 Clearinghouse Rev. 303 (1980).

The Right to Public Housing, 39 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 691 (1971).

Tenants and the Law: 1970, 20 Amer. U. L. Rev. 58 (1970).

The Lawyer as Abolitionist: Ending Homelessness and Poverty in Our Times, 19 U. Public L. Rev. 237 (2000)


Essays and Reports

Lewis F. Powell and Justice for Farmworkers, The Virginia Lawyer (forthcoming).

Fighting Back: Disadvantaged Women in the Courts, 12 Women's Rights L. Rptr. 223 (1991).

Establishing a Right to Housing: An Advocate's Guide, (Low Income Housing Information Service, 1991); also A General Guide, 25 Clearinghouse Rev. 203 (July 1991) and a summary in 13 Cornerstone 5 (NLADA 1991).

Combating 'Private' Displacement, 13 Housing Law Bulletin 1 (1982).

Public Housing Location and the Law, Housing Assistance Council Information, April 19, 1974.