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Faculty Profile

Brent T. White

Associate Dean for Programs & Global Initiatives; Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of East Asian Studies


E-mail:  Brent T. White
Office Number: 268
Office Phone: (520) 626-2063
Office Fax: (520) 621-9140

Courses Taught:
Civil Procedure (Law 601A) Property (Law 605) Alternative Dispute Resolution (Law 696N) International Litigation (Law 643P) Law & Development
Curriculum Vitae
SSRN Published Papers

Biographical Information

Dean White writes in the areas of Property and Law & Development, both through the lens of social psychology and behavioral economics. Recently, his work has focused on homeowner behavior in the United States in the wake of the housing crisis. His work has been widely cited by academics, and in the media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR and 60 Minutes. He has also written significant articles in the area of law and development, including empirical work examining the failure of judicial reform due to "project capture." His current research project explores the role of urban spatial environments in shaping positive or negative rule of law cultures. His teaching line-up includes Property, Law & Development, Civil Procedure, and Mediation. He has also taught International Litigation, Japanese Law, and Legislation and Regulation. He directs Arizona's J.D. with Advanced Standing Program and Global Law Partnership Program.

Education
New York University School of Law, J.D. (1998) Graduated magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar; Staff Editor, Annual Survey of American Law
Duke University, B.A. (1993) Graduated magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa

Representative Publications
Preventing Strategic Default: Lesons from Japan, 29 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 235 (2012).
Walking Away Scot-Free: Trust, Expert Advice, and Realtor Responsibility, 40 Real Estate L.J. 312 (2011).
Underwater Home (2010).
Take this House and Shove It: The Emotional Drivers of Strategic Default, 63 SMU L. Rev. 1279 (2010).
The Morality of Strategic Default, 58 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 155 (2010). http://uclalawreview.org/?p=1527
Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis, 45 Wake Forest L. Rev. 971 (2010). http://ssrn.com/abstract=1494467
Putting Aside the Rule of Law Myth: Corruption and the Case for Juries in Emerging Democracies, 43 Cornell Int'l L.J. 307 (2010).
Rotten to the Core: Project Capture and the Failure of Judicial Reform in Mongolia, 4 East Asia L. Rev. 209 (2009).
Saving Face: The Benefits of Not Saying I'm Sorry, 72 Law & Contemp. Probs. 261 (2009).
Ritual, Emotion, and Political Belief: The Search for the Constitutional Limit to Patriotic Education in Public Schools, 44 Ga. L. Rev. 447 (2009).
Say You're Sorry: Court-Ordered Apologies as a Civil Rights Remedy, 91 Cornell L. Rev. 1261 (2006).
Complete List of Publications

Presentations
Speaker, The Failure of Rule of Law Reform in Mongolia (School of Regulation, Justice & Diplomacy, College of Asia Pacific, Australian National University, Mar. 22, 2011).  
Speaker, Underwater and Not Walking Away (Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York Univ. School of Law, Nov. 3, 2009). 
Speaker, Underwater and Not Walking Away (Faculty Colloquium, Univ. New Mexico School of Law, Oct. 28, 2009). 
Chair, Institutional Capacity Building and Democracy (Central Asian Studies Society Tenth Annual Conf., Oct. 9, 2009). 
Presenter, Putting Aside the Rule of Law Myth (Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, BYU Law School, Sept. 24, 2009). 
Presenter, Patriotic Education and Freedom of Conscience: A Compartive Perspective (Topics in Constitutional Law Seminar, Univ. Ryukyus School of Law, Okinawa, Japan, Apr. 28, 2009). 
Speaker, "Face" and Resistance to Apology (Vanderbilt Univ. Law School Conf., Symposium on Group Conflict Resolution: Sources of Resistance to Apology, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Mar. 2007). 

 

Updated: 04/23/2013