Faculty Profile: Florence Roisman

Florence Wagman Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law and a Chancellor’s Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She long has taught the basic Property Law course and courses in various aspects of housing law, at McKinney and other law schools.  She has litigated, advocated, and written extensively about housing discrimination and segregation and, with Professor Stacy Seicshnaydre of Tulane University Law School, is preparing a casebook on that subject. She has an article about racial covenants that is soon to be published in the ABA’s Journal of Housing and Community Development Law and has been a keynote speaker for the Indiana Land Title Association.

Professor Roisman has published a book (Property and Human Rights), several book chapters, and many articles, and often speaks at academic and other meetings. She has been honored by, among others, the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the National Housing Law Project, the Society of American Law Teachers (Human Rights Award), Equal Justice Works, the District of Columbia Bar (Thurgood Marshall Award), the District of Columbia Legal Aid Society (Servant of Justice Award), and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants (first Kutak-Dodds Prize).  She received her B.A. with High Honors and Distinction from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and her LL.B. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1963.