Associate Professor of Law
Brandon Weiss is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. His research and teaching focus on property law and theory, as well as the relationship between housing, economic mobility, and government intervention, with a particular emphasis on federal subsidized housing policy. His writing on topics like privatization and the spatial distribution of low-income housing tax credit projects has been published in law reviews, including the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the UC Irvine Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, and the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
Weiss serves on the Executive Committees of the Property Law Section, the Real Estate Transactions Section, and the Community Economic Development Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). He is Chair of the Legal Educators Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law and has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law.
Prior to joining American University, Weiss taught as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC), where he served as a Senior Fellow at the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs. Previously, Weiss taught at UCLA School of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor and affiliated faculty member at the Ziman Center for Real Estate. He also practiced law in Los Angeles as a Skadden Fellow and Equal Justice AmeriCorps Legal Fellow at Public Counsel Law Center, working on the preservation of subsidized housing, and at Bocarsly Emden Cowan Esmail & Arndt, a boutique transactional affordable housing firm.
Weiss earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was awarded the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership. He also holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he focused on urban policy and housing finance. Weiss received his Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems (Cognitive Science) from Stanford University.
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About Brandon Weiss
Brandon Weiss is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. His research and teaching focus on property law and theory, as well as the relationship between housing, economic mobility, and government intervention, with a particular emphasis on federal subsidized housing policy. His writing on topics like privatization and the spatial distribution of low-income housing tax credit projects has been published in law reviews, including the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the UC Irvine Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, and the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
Weiss serves on the Executive Committees of the Property Law Section, the Real Estate Transactions Section, and the Community Economic Development Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). He is Chair of the Legal Educators Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law and has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law.
Prior to joining American University, Weiss taught as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC), where he served as a Senior Fellow at the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs. Previously, Weiss taught at UCLA School of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor and affiliated faculty member at the Ziman Center for Real Estate. He also practiced law in Los Angeles as a Skadden Fellow and Equal Justice AmeriCorps Legal Fellow at Public Counsel Law Center, working on the preservation of subsidized housing, and at Bocarsly Emden Cowan Esmail & Arndt, a boutique transactional affordable housing firm.
Weiss earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was awarded the Dean’s Award for Community Leadership. He also holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he focused on urban policy and housing finance. Weiss received his Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems (Cognitive Science) from Stanford University.
| Present | Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law | |
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Disciplines
| JD, Harvard University ‐ Harvard Law School | ||
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| MPP, Harvard University ‐ Harvard Kennedy School | ||
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| BS, Stanford University | ||
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