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FACULTY DIRECTORY

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 

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

Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer- A Transactional Approach, 3rd ed. (with Bender, Madison and Zinman) Aspen (2004)

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

Publications: Articles and Chapters in Books:

"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)

"Transfer by Deed," Chapter 81A, Powell on Real Property Law, Matthew-Bender, 1999.

"Commercial Landlord's Remedies - Has the Property Paradigm been Replaced by Contract Rules?" The ACREL Papers, Fall 1999, ACREL/ALI-ABA

"Common Interest Communities: Evolution and Reinvention," Foreword to Symposium, The Robert Kratovil Memorial Seminar in Real Estate Law: Reinventing America's Master Planned Communities, 31 John Marshall Law Review 300 (1998).

"For Adjunct Faculty, Try a ‘Teach In'," Gonzaga University School of Law, Institute for Law School Teaching, Spring 1998

"Reverse Mortgages: A Financial Planning Device for the Elderly" Chapter in Reverse Mortgages- A Lawyers Guide to Housing and Income Alternatives, D. Bridwell & C. Nauts, American Bar Association (1997)

"Reverse Mortgages:  A Primer for Illinois Lawyers," DuPage County Bar Brief, May, 1996

"Reverse Mortgages, A Financial Planning Tool for the Elderly" 1 Elder Law Journal 75 (1993).  Edited version reprinted - Lawyers Guide to Retirement (2d ed) ABA 1994, (3d ed) ABA (1995)

"Survey of Illinois Law:  Real Estate Finance," 16 SIU Law Journal 999 (1992)

"Landlord Tenant Relationship," Family Legal Guide (Chapter in Book), American Bar Association (1994) (with Michael Pensack).

Juvenile Justice Benchbook, one of two Professor Reporters selected by the Illinois Supreme Court, to prepare materials for use by judges throughout the state; published 1992

"Statute of Frauds & Oral Arguments," Chapter in Real Estate Practice & Litigation.  B. Quail ed. Shepard's McGraw Hill, 1991 with pocket parts

"The Illusions of Reform:  Illinois Statutory Tenancy by the Entirety, 78 Ill. B.J. 198 (1990) with R. Otto

Book Review, "Real Estate Law" by Robert Kratovil, 22 Marshall Law Rev. 781 (1989).

 

 

Last Updated On: 8/14/08