Professor Reiss concentrates his study and practice in real estate issues and community development. He was most recently a Visiting Clinical Associate Professor at the Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice. Previously, he was an associate in the New York office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in its Real Estate Department and an associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco in its Land Use and Environmental Law Group. He was also a law clerk to Judge Timothy Lewis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. His most recent article, "Subprime Standardization: How Rating Agencies Allow Predatory Lending to Flourish in the Secondary Mortgage Market" in the Florida State University Law Review (forthcoming), has been granted an award as the best article of 2006 on a topic dealing with consumer financial services law by the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. His other publications include "Modeling a Response to Predatory Lending: The New Jersey Home Ownership Security Act of 2002" (with B. Azmy) in the Rutgers Law Journal; “Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Program in New York City” in the ABA’s Journal of Affordable Housing & Development Law; and “Housing Abandonment and New York City’s Response” in the New York University Review of Law & Social Change.
Articles
Subprime Standardization: How Rating Agencies Allow Predatory Lending to Flourish in the Secondary Mortgage Market, 33 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 985 (2006)
Predatory lending, the origination of loans with abusive terms to homeowners, is rampant in the...
Book Review, J. DeFilippis, Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital (2003), 37 Env’t & Plan. A756 (2005)
Contributions to Books
How We Got Where We Are: The Lessons of History, No More ‘Housing of Last Resort’ (1996)
The Importance of Affordability and Resident Participation, In Rem Housing (1996)
Unpublished Papers
The Federal Government’s Implied Guarantee of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s Obligations: Uncle Sam Will Pick Up the Tab, ExpressO (2007)
This article provides the most comprehensive statutory analysis to date of the federal government’s implied...
Subprime Standardization: How Rating Agencies Allow Predatory Lending to Flourish in the Secondary Mortgage Market, ExpressO (2005)
Predatory lending, the origination of loans with abusive terms to homeowners, is rampant in the...
New Jersey’s Model Response to Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2003)
As widespread media coverage has documented, predatory home lending practices have become rampant throughout the...