University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Thomas Mitchell will deliver the keynote address at the conference "Land Rich: Strategies and Opportunities for Helping Low Wealth Land Owners to Optimize the Value of Their Real Estate Assets," at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 12-13, 2007.

Mitchell’s topic is "Adverse Dispossession: A Historical Account of Black Land Loss."

Sponsors of the conference include the University of Wisconsin Law School, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Asset Builders of America, Inc., and the American Bar Association and its Property Preservation Taskforce.

The Land Rich Conference will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and strategies to assist cash-poor land owners who historically have suffered in silence as they struggled to maintain or reclaim property that may have been passed down through generations.

Thomas Mitchell has worked in the field of black land loss for several years, publishing articles and directing students in hands-on clinical work in multiple regions of the United States. For more information on his work, see http://law.wisc.edu/facstaff/biog.php?iID=365 .

Submitted by on March 27, 2007

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