Shelby D. Green

After graduating from law school at Georgetown University Law Center, Professor Shelby Green worked as an associate at Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle (now Nixon Peabody), in Rochester, NY, and Washington, DC, where she worked on a variety of business law matters. For many years, she served as a member of the Board of Directors of Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, White Plains, NY. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the John Jay Heritage Center, Rye, NY. She is also a member of the Planning and Zoning Commission in her hometown.

Professor Green also serves the community through her pro bono work, for which she received a service award from the New York State Bar Association. For three years, she served as the director of the Pace LLM Program in Real Estate Law. She is first vice chair of the New York State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section and a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Currently, she is the editor of the “Keeping Current—Property” column in Probate & Property, a magazine published by the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association. Professor Green also serves as chair of the Legal Education and Uniform Laws Group of that section, which among other things offers the “Professors’ Corner,” a monthly webinar on current topics. She has authored articles in the areas of property law and real estate.

At Haub Law, Professor Green teaches Property, Historic Preservation and Real Estate Transactions & Finance and is counsel to the Land Use Law Center.

Recent Speaking Engagements:

• Presenter, New York State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section Summer Meeting, The Climate Mobilization Act (July 2021).
• Presenter, Webinar, The Janus Effect of Historic Preservation, New York State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section, Annual Meeting, (January 2021).
• Presenter, The Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Performance of Real Estate Contracts: Frustration of Purpose, Impossibility, Impracticability and Force Majeure, ABA Real Property, Trust Estate Section, CLE, April 2020.
• Moderator, Webinar, Non-Debt Financing for Housing Purchase: Risks and Promises, ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section, June 2020.
• Moderator, Holds on Horizontal Drilling, ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section March 2020.
• Moderator, Webinar, Knick v. Township of Scott, ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section February 2020.
• Moderator, Webinar, Rural Blight, ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section December 2019.
• Presenter, Preserving Cultural Heritage Through Sustainability Inventions, Association of Law, Property and Society, Syracuse, N.Y. May 2019.
• Presenter, Law Professors’ Update, ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section, Legal Education Group, Spring Symposium, 2018.
• Presenter, Zoning for Resilience and Sustainability in the Era of Climate Change, Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators, 2017.
• Moderator, Webinar, Antiquities Act, ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section, September 2017.
• Presenter, Resilience and the Big Picture, Governing and Financing Innovations for Long Island Sound and Beyond, University of Connecticut, April 2016.
• Presenter, The Fordham Environmental Law Review, Global Challenges and Local Solutions: The Role of Municipalities in the Fight Against Climate Change, February 2016.
• Panelist, Resilient Communities and Climate Change, The Future of Housing, Equity, Stability and Sustainability, Washburn Law School, February 2015.
• Panelist, Fair Housing, NYU Black Allied Law Students Associations Annual Symposium, 2014.
• Panelist, Resilient Communities and Climate Change, Association of Law Property and Society, April 2015.
• Moderator, Crowdfunding: The New Thing in Financing Development, Professors’ Corner Webinar, ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section, Legal Education Group, August 2015.
• Moderator, Municipalities and the Evolving Use of Eminent Domain, Professors’ Corner Webinar, ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section, Legal Education Group, May 2015.
• Moderator, Micro Housing, Professors’ Corner Webinar, ABA Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section, Legal Education Group, August 2014.
• Panelist, Historic Preservation Responds to Housing Shortages in Legacy Cities: Synergies for Savings and Success, Historic Preservation in America’s Legacy Cities, Cleveland State University, June 2014.
• Organizer and Panelist, Due Diligence and Disclosure in Mortgage Loan Originations under Dodd-Frank, CLE, Pace Law School, May 2014.

• BS, Towson State University
• JD, Georgetown University Law Center

• Real Estate Transactions and Finance LAW 607
• Historic Preservation Seminar LAW 743
• Property LAW 634

View all of Professor Green’s publications on SSRN, Digital Commons or download her CV (PDF).

Books:

• Historic Preservation: Stories & Laws (2020) (with Nicholas A. Robinson)
• Historic Preservation: Law & Culture (2018) (with Nicholas A. Robinson)

Book Chapters:

• “Adaptation and Mitigation,” in Climate Change Law: Introduction (2022)(with Kuh, Rabago, Nerula, Coplan, And Valova)

Selected Articles

• Transmogrification of Moratoria in Support of Rent Regulations: False Steps to Affordable Housing, 58 U.S.F.L. Rev. 314 (2024).
• The Intentional Community: Toward Inclusion and Climate-Cognizance, 62 Washburn L.J. 243
• (2023).
• Monuments Without Faces, 71 Washington Univ. J. Law and Pol’y, 19 (2023).
• Adaptive Rezoning for Social Equity, Affordability and Resilience, 52 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1325 (2022).
• The Aerial View of Land Use: Preempting the Locals for Improved Housing Access, 36 Prob. & Prop. 25 (Sept/Oct 2022)(with Bailey Andree).
• Equitable, Affordable and Climate-Cognizant Housing Construction, 75 Ark. L. Rev. 363 (2022).
• Non-Debt and Non-Bank Financing for Home Purchase: Promises and Risks, 10 Am. U. Bus. L Rev. 437 (2022).
• The Loud Unspoken Narratives from Confederate Monuments: How and Why We Should Quiet Them in the Public Square, 16 Zarch, J. of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism 54 (2021).
• Ex Situ Preservation of Historic Monuments in the Era of Climate Change, 18.2 Conn. Pub. Interest L. J. 1 (2019).
• Testing Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s Post-Crisis Self-Preservation Policies Under the Fair Housing Act, 66 Clev. St. L. Rev. 477 (2018).
• No Entry to the Public Lands: Toward a Theory of a Public Trust Servitude for a Way over Abutting Private Land, 14 Wyo. L. Rev. 19 (2014).

• Pro Bono Service Award, New York State Bar Association (1995)

Historic Preservation, Property, Land Use, Real Estate