Background
Berger, Curtis Jay was born on April 16, 1926 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Samuel and Ruth (Taksen) Berger.
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Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition (Aspen Casebook)
(Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edi...)
Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition, is a classroom-tested casebook designed for upper-class courses in real estate transactions or financing that will appeal to professors who prefer to focus on the taxation and financing aspects of a transaction as well as to those who choose to concentrate on contractual and title areas. The Sixth Edition has been meticulously updated and features extensive coverage of the impact of the recent mortgage crisis and the resulting changes and potential changes to real estate mortgage markets. This comprehensive casebook offers: • A thorough foundation in land transfer law and a solid doctrinal framework in contract, financing, taxation, and titles. • Legal and historical background on the subject of land transactions that will help prepare students for practice. • Thorough coverage of the law relevant to various kinds of land transactions, with an emphasis on the major participants in the land sale and lending markets, the role of these participants, their business concerns, and their legal rights and duties. • Consideration of many of the more troublesome legal and policy problems in the land transaction field and alternative solutions to these problems are explored. • Numerous judicial opinions illustrating important issues of law concerning land transactions and the major participants in land transaction markets. • Cases that are selected to help demonstrate the variations in the design of real-world land transactions and the frequent complexity of ;these transactions. • Materials that develop students' ability to critically evaluate legal problems and propose solutions to these problems that will best serve the parties' business objectives within the applicable legal constraints. • Valuable appendices, including a glossary of real estate terms and sample form documents. The Sixth Edition features: • Extensive consideration in Chapter 2 of changes pertaining to real estate mortgage markets. • Chapter 7, Part D (Securitization) has been significantly revised. • Material in Chapter 7, Part E (Valuing Real Estate and Investments) has been expanded to include a brief section on the basic business and finance considerations in real estate development and investment. • Updated tax material. • Revisions and refinements to nearly all of the explanatory text, article excerpts, and notes.
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Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials
(2007 Hardcover edition for land transfer and finance.)
2007 Hardcover edition for land transfer and finance.
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Property: Land Ownership and Use, Fourth Edition (Casebook)
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Book by Berger, Curtis J., Williams, Joan
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Land Transfer and Finance (Casebook)
(Book by Berger, Curtis J., Johnstone, Quintin)
Book by Berger, Curtis J., Johnstone, Quintin
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By Curtis J. Berger - Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials (6th Edition) (7.3.2011)
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Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials Hardcover May 31, 2007
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Land Ownership and Use (Law School Casebook Series)
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Law, Jurisprudence, Real Estate
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Land Transfer and Finance Cases and Materials Teacher's Manual
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the teacher edition to Land Transfer and Finance, fifth edition
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Land ownership and use
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Land Ownership, Landlord and Tenant, Property Law, Real Estate
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- Land ownership and use : cases, statutes, and other materials,
- Land Ownership and Use, Cases, Materials, and Problems, 1972 Supplement
- Land transfer and finance : cases and materials
- Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials 5th Edition (Fifth Ed.) 5e By Curtis J. Berger, Quintin Johnstone and Marshall Tracht 2007
- Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials (2007 Hardcover edition for land transfer and finance.)
- By Curtis J. Berger - Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials (6th Edition) (7.3.2011)
- Property: Land Ownership and Use, Fourth Edition (Casebook) (Book by Berger, Curtis J., Williams, Joan)
- Land Ownership and Use, Cases, Materials, and Problems, 1972 Supplement
- Land ownership and use : cases, statutes, and other materials,
- Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials 5th Edition (Fifth Ed.) 5e By Curtis J. Berger, Quintin Johnstone and Marshall Tracht 2007
- Land Ownership and Use (Law School Casebook Series) (Law, Jurisprudence, Real Estate)
- Land ownership and use (Land Ownership, Landlord and Tenant, Property Law, Real E...)
- Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition (Aspen Casebook) (Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edi...)
- Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials by The late Curtis J. Berger (2007-05-31)
- Land Transfer and Finance (Casebook) (Book by Berger, Curtis J., Johnstone, Quintin)
Other Work
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Author: Land Ownership and Use, 1968, second edition, 1975, 3d edition, 1982, (with Williams) 4th edition, 1997, Law and Poverty, 1969, (with Johnstone) Land Transfer and Finance, 1971, second edition, 1978, 3d edition, 1986, 4th edition, 1993, (with Wiedenbeck) Partnership Taxation, 1989. Editor Yale Law Journal. Board editors: Journal Real Estate Taxation, Journal Partnership Taxation.
Contributor professional journals.
Curtis Jay Berger
Edit ProfileEducation
AB with high honors, University Rochester, 1948. Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1951.
Career
Practice in, Rochester, 1951-1958;
instructor law, Yale University Law School, 1958-1960;
visiting lecturer, Yale University Law School, 1966;
associate professor, University of Southern California Law School, 1960-1962;
member of faculty, Columbia University Law School, since 1962;
professor of law, Columbia University Law School, since 1964;
now Lawrence A. Wien professor real estate law, chairman division urban planningSch. Architecture, Columbia University, 1969-1970. Special consultant Nassau (New York) County, 1964-1966.
Lecturer U. Mississippi, 1967, Leiden U., The Netherlands, 1968, 94, New York University, 1969, Amsterdam, The Netherlands U., 1971, 79, 85, 95, Cornell Univercity, 1978. Visiting professor public and international affairs Princeton University, 1975-1982. Visiting professor law New York University, 1990-1991.
Cons.N.Y. Proj. Legal Education, 1994-1996. Trustee NALP Foundation for Research and Education, since 1996.
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book
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Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition (Aspen Casebook)
(Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edi...)
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Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition (Aspen Casebook)
(Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edi...)
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Land Transfer and Finance Cases and Materials Teacher's Manual
(the teacher edition to Land Transfer and Finance, fifth e...)
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Land ownership and use
(Land Ownership, Landlord and Tenant, Property Law, Real E...)
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Land ownership and use
(Land Ownership, Landlord and Tenant, Property Law, Real E...)
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Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials
(2007 Hardcover edition for land transfer and finance.)
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Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials
(2007 Hardcover edition for land transfer and finance.)
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Land Ownership and Use (Law School Casebook Series)
(Law, Jurisprudence, Real Estate)
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Land Ownership and Use (Law School Casebook Series)
(Law, Jurisprudence, Real Estate)
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Property: Land Ownership and Use, Fourth Edition (Casebook)
(Book by Berger, Curtis J., Williams, Joan)
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Land Transfer and Finance (Casebook)
(Book by Berger, Curtis J., Johnstone, Quintin)
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Property: Land Ownership and Use, Fourth Edition (Casebook)
(Book by Berger, Curtis J., Williams, Joan)
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Land Transfer and Finance (Casebook)
(Book by Berger, Curtis J., Johnstone, Quintin)
- By Curtis J. Berger - Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials (6th Edition) (7.3.2011)
- Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials Hardcover May 31, 2007
- Land ownership and use : cases, statutes, and other materials,
- Land Ownership and Use, Cases, Materials, and Problems, 1972 Supplement
- Land transfer and finance : cases and materials
- Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials 5th Edition (Fifth Ed.) 5e By Curtis J. Berger, Quintin Johnstone and Marshall Tracht 2007
- By Curtis J. Berger - Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials (6th Edition) (7.3.2011)
- Land Ownership and Use, Cases, Materials, and Problems, 1972 Supplement
- Land ownership and use : cases, statutes, and other materials,
- Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials 5th Edition (Fifth Ed.) 5e By Curtis J. Berger, Quintin Johnstone and Marshall Tracht 2007
- Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials by The late Curtis J. Berger (2007-05-31)
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Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition (Aspen Casebook)
Other Work
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Author: Land Ownership and Use, 1968, second edition, 1975, 3d edition, 1982, (with Williams) 4th edition, 1997, Law and Poverty, 1969, (with Johnstone) Land Transfer and Finance, 1971, second edition, 1978, 3d edition, 1986, 4th edition, 1993, (with Wiedenbeck) Partnership Taxation, 1989. Editor Yale Law Journal. Board editors: Journal Real Estate Taxation, Journal Partnership Taxation.
Contributor professional journals.
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Membership
Executive director New Jersey Commission to Study Meadowland Development, 1964-1967. Chairman Englewood Redevelopment Agency, 1968-1969. Democratic candidate for New York State Senate, 1956.
Board directors Citizens Housing and Planning Council. Chairman Advisory Services for Better Housing, 1978-1982, District of Columbia 37 Municipal Employees Legal Services Advisory Board, 1977-1982, The Bridge, 1981-1986. Member New York Citizens Advisory Committee on Housing.
Executive director West Side Task Force, 1986. Member West Side Waterfront Panel, 1990. Director Hudson River Park Conservancy, 1992-1996.
Member grants subcommittee Law School Admissions Council, since 1996. Member American Bar Association (Narrowing the Gap task force 1989-1992), New York State Bar Association, American College Real Estate Lawyers, American Law Institute, Association American Law Schools (executive committee 1991-1994, president elect 1992, president 1993), Order of Coif, Columbia Men's Faculty Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta Beta Tau.
Connections
Married Constance Lindau, June 29, 1953 (divorced). Children: Ellen, John, Cathy, Wendy. Married Vivian O. Adler, June 17, 1973.
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1948
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1951
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1951 - 1958
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1960 - 1962
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1969 - 1970
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1969 - 1970