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Celeste Hammond

 

Celeste M. Hammond
Professor and Director, Real Estate Law Program
Director, LL.M. Program in Real Estate Law
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312.987.2366
E-mail: 7hammond@jmls.edu

BS, cum laude, Loyola University
JD, University of Chicago Law School

 

Publications | Professional Memberships

Celeste Hammond practiced law in Chicago for eight years before joining the John Marshall faculty. She was a leader in creating the Center for Real Estate Law in 1995. Professor Hammond is active in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Lambda Alpha International Land Economics Society, and Commercial Real Estate Executive Women, and has chaired several subcommittees of the ABA Section on Real Property Probate and Trust Law. She is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Professor Hammond helped establish the Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS); most recently she helped establish an AALS Section on Real Estate Transactions and served as its first chairperson in 2004. She has published extensively on an array of topics, her comments are solicited by the news media, and she is a frequent speaker at programs and conferences. She is one of the authors of Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer--A Transactional Approach (3rd ed.) and Commercial Leasing Primer (2007).

She co-authored "Real Estate Auctions-Legal Concerns for an Increasingly Preferred Method of Selling Real Property" in the Real Property Probate & Trust Law Journal (2006).

Professor Hammond joined the faculty in 1976. She teaches Property, Alternative Dispute Resolution in Real Estate, Real Estate Finance, and Real Estate Transactions.

Full Curriculum Vitae

Publications: Books

Commercial Leasing: A Transactional Primer, (with Daniel B. Bogart), Carolina Academic Pres, 2007 

Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer- A Transactional Approach (with Bender, Madison and Zinman) Aspen (2004; 2008)

Annual Update, Illinois Digest, Martindale-Hubbell, 1993-present

Publications: Articles and Chapters in Books

The Use of Real Estate Auctions in Commercial Short Sales, Prob. & Prop. March/April, 2009

Let the Bidding Begin: America for Sale: Real Estate Auction in The ACREL Papers (with Steven Good), ALI-ABA, 2008

Introduction, Real Estate Law Symposium, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev.  xi, 2007

Real Estate Auctions - Legal Concerns for an Increasingly Preferred Method of Selling Real Property (with Good), 2006

Rules Concerning Marital Property and Successions in the United States, Civil Law - Common Law - Suiluppo Economico E Certezza Giuridica Nel Confronto Tra Sistemi Diversi, Congresso Nazionale de Natariato, 2006 

Predatory Lending - A Legal Definition and Update, 34 Real Est. L.J. 17, 2005 

"Arbitration Advocacy: From Clause to Hearing" (with Mayer), 28 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 1 (2005)

"Unauthorized Practice of Law: How Transactional Lawyers Can Avoid It," Probate & Property (July/August 2005)

Introduction, Real Estate Symposium issue, "Real Estate in Bankruptcy: A Look Backwards for a Better View of the Future," The John Marshall Law Review, Fall 2004

"The (Pre) (As)Sumed Consent of Commercial Binding Arbitration Contracts: An Empirical Study of Attitudes and Expectations of Transactional Lawyers,"  36 J. Marshall L. Rev.589 (2003).

"Arbitration Advocacy: From Clause to Hearing," (with Jeffrey J. Mayer), International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Program Materials, October 22, 2003

"Predatory Lending - A Perspective for the Mortgage Attorney," published in The Corporate Lawyer, July 2001; reprinted in Commercial Banking & Bankruptcy Section Newsletter of ISBA Fall 2001

"Landlord Remedies in Commercial Leasing - A Surprising Lack of Uniformity," Shopping Center Legal Update, Spring 2001

"Banking on Their Homes: Reverse Mortgages Can Provide Cash Up Front," 86 A.B.A.J.62 (2000)

More Publications

Professional Memberships

American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL)

Association of American Law Schools

American Bar Association, Real Property Section

American Bar Foundation

Lambda Alpha International - Honorary Land Economics Society

Chicago Bar Association, Real Property Committee

International Bar Association,

American Bar Association, Affordable Housing Forum

American Bar Association, Section on Environmental Law

American Real Estate Society (ARES)

American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association

Urban Land Institute

More Memberships

 

Last Updated On: 7/2/09
 

 


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