Carol N. Brown

Professor of Law

Education

J.D., Duke University
A.B., Duke University
LL.M., Duke University

Carol N. Brown joined the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law in July 2007. From 2001-2007, she taught law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Brown's scholarship examines the role of private property rights protections in stabilizing the position of economically vulnerable property owners and of those who do not own property. By examining judicial and legislative developments in the area of property law, her work shows how proposals for rigorous protection of private property rights are more protective of middle and lower class property owners and of non-property owners than are proposals for less rigorous private property rights protection. She teaches property, land use planning, and real estate transactions.

Brown is the chair of the Property Section of the American Association of Law Schools, secretary of the Real Estate Transactions Section of the American Association of Law Schools and is a member of the board of trustees of Heifer International Foundation.

Selected Publications

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A Time to Preserve: A Call for Formal Private-Property Rights in Perpetual Conservation Easements, SUSTAIN:� J. ENVT'L & SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES _ (Forthcoming 2010). [SSRN]
Intent and Empirics:� Race to the Subprime _ MARQ. L. REV. _ (forthcoming 2010). [SSRN, BEPress]
Kelo v. City of New London and the Prospects of Development after Natural Disaster, in PRIVATE PROPERTY, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND EMINENT DOMAIN (R. Malloy ed.) (2008). [K3511 .P75 2008]
BASIC MORTGAGE LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (with D. Hill) (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed.) (2007). [KF694 .H55 2007]
The Houses that Eminent Domain and Housing Tax Credits Built: Imagining a Better New Orleans, (with S. Williams) 34 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 689 (2007). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, Hein]
Drinking from a Deep Well: The Public Trust Doctrine and Western Water Law, 34 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 1 (2006). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein]
A Time to Preserve: A Call for Formal Private-Property Rights in Perpetual Conservation Easements, 40 GA. L. REV. 85 (2005), reprinted in 2006 ZONING AND PLANNING LAW HANDBOOK 1019 - 1095 (Patricia E. Salkin ed.). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein KF5697.A152 Z66 2006]
Casting Lots: The Illusion of Justice and Accountability in Property Allocation, 53 BUFF. L. REV. 65 (2005). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein]
Taking the Takings Claim: A Policy and Economic Analysis of the Survival of Takings Claims After Property Transfers, 36 CONN. L. REV. 7 (2003). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein]

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Office:�	5112 Van Hecke-Wettach Hall
Phone:�	919.962.2164
Fax:�	919.962.1277
E-mail:�	carol_brown@unc.edu