Stacy Seicshnaydre Co-Authors Casebook on Fair Housing Law

Tulane Law’s Stacy Seicshnaydre, professor and Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, recently co-authored “The Right to Fair Housing: Cases, Statutes, and Context,” alongside Florence Wagman Roisman and Rigel C. Oliveri. 

A leading authority on fair housing and anti-discrimination law, Seicshnaydre’s scholarship has been influential in federal civil rights litigation and housing policy nationwide. The new casebook offers a rigorous and comprehensive framework for teaching the evolution of protected access to housing under federal, state, and local law. 

Through detailed analysis of the Fair Housing Act and its amendments, as well as related sources such as the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, the book examines both the doctrinal foundations and practical enforcement of fair housing rights. It also explores the history of discriminatory housing policies that entrenched segregation, the legal theories used to challenge discrimination and the government’s affirmative duty to further fair housing. 

A Tulane Law alumna, Seicshnaydre (L’92) the William K. Christovich Professor of Law and Rober A. Ainsworth Professor in the Courts and Federal System, served as Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Public Interest Programs from 2016 to 2023, and before that directed Tulane’s Civil Litigation Clinic. 

You can learn more about the book here.