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Mortgage and Foreclosure Resources: Library Resources

This guide is intended to assist students in the Mortgage Foreclosure Clinic.

Rutgers Libraries

Housing and Development Resources: Housing Fiscal Crisis
From Rutgers Libraries. This page includes information about mortgages and foreclosures. The rest of the guide might also prove useful.

Books in the Clinic Library

These are titles available in the Clinic's collection of library materials.

New Jersey Foreclosure Law & Practice
New Jersey Law Journal Press, 2017.
Home Foreclosures: including reverse mortgages, tax liens, condominium liens, land installment sales, and seizure of manufactured homes
National Consumer Law Center, 2019
Mortgage Servicing and Loan Modifications
National Consumer Law Center, 2019
Collection Practice in New Jersey
NJICLE, 2014. Also available via Lexis Advance.
Foreclosure Prevention Counseling: Preserving the American Dream
National Consumer Law Center, 2007
Foreclosures and Mortgage Servicing: Including Modification Loans
National Consumer Law Center, 2014.
Mortgage Lending: Loan Origination, Preemption, and Litigation
National Consumer Law Center, 2014.

Law Library Resources

These resources are available in the Rutgers Law Library (in print and online).

New Jersey Mortgage Foreclosure Practice: The Fair Foreclosure Act, With Forms
NJICLE, 2013. Also available via Lexis Advance.
GANN Law Books
GANN publishes several key titles related to New Jersey practice, including the official version of the New Jersey Rules of Court. Restricted to current Rutgers Law students and faculty.
New Jersey Law Journal
Weekly legal journal for all-things related to practice in New Jersey, including court decisions and editorial content.

Books and Articles

Books, law reviews, and related scholarship on mortgage foreclosure law and practice.

Foreclosed: Mortgage Servicing and the Hidden Architecture of Homeownership in America
Christopher K. Odinet, Univ. of Oklahoma College of Law
Foreclosure Diversion and Mediation in the States
Alan M. White, 33 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 411 (2017).
Rolling the Dice on Foreclosure Prevention: Differences Across Mortgage Servicers in Loan Modifications and Loan Cure Rates
Carolina K. Reid, Carly Urban & J. Michael Collins, 27 Housing Pol'y Debate 1 (2017)
"There's a Difference--I Own This": Negotiating Social and Financial Services under Threat of Mortgage Foreclosure
Amy Castro Baker & Danya E. Keene, 61 Social Work 321 (2016).
2013-14 University of Arkansas School of Law Student-Run Clinics Yield Policy Insights and Practical Foreclosure Advice to Homeowners
Nate Coulter, 68 Ark. L. Rev. 551 (2015).
Shadowed by the Shadow Inventory: A Newark, New Jersey Case Study of Stalled Foreclosures and Their Consequences
Linda E. Fisher, 4 UC Irvine L. Rev. 1265 (2014).
Foreclosure, Subprime Mortgage Lending, and the Mortgage Electronic Registration System
Christopher L. Peterson, 78 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1359 (2010).

Other relevant guides

Factual and Investigative Research Guide
Informal fact research.