Thomas Mitchell, Assistant Professor at the Law School, has received a grant from the Ford Foundation of $230,000 in support of his project "Forced Sales of Black-Owned Land in the Rural South: Assessing Impacts on Black Wealth and Effects of African-American participation in Civil Society." The grant will cover a three-year period, beginning February 1, 2002. The goal of the project is to examine the impact that partition sales have had on black wealth in selected communities of the Rural South, and also to assess the non-economic impact on these communities. Collaborating with Professor Mitchell on this project will be Professors Richard Green and Stephen Malpezzi of the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department of the UW-Madison School of Business. A further aim of the project is to trace the developments that have led courts to adopt rules in partition actions that make partition sales the norm, despite the fact that state statutes indicate that such sales should occur only in unusual cases.

Submitted by on January 10, 2002

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