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Georgette Chapman Phillips
Vice Dean of the Undergraduate Division and Professor of Real Estate and Legal Studies at Wharton

Georgette Chapman Phillips
Vice Dean of the Undergraduate Division and Professor of Real Estate and Legal Studies at Wharton

Tel: 215.573.3503
Email: poing@wharton.upenn.edu

Expertise

  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Transactions

Bio

Professor Phillips is the Vcie Dean of the Wharton Undergraduate Division, a Professor of Real Estate and Legal Studies at Wharton and a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was also an academic visitor at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the Penn faculty she was in private law practice in New York and Philadelphia. She was named as the Ballard Research Scholar at the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School.

She lectures internationally on topics in commercial real estate and urban planning. She is a contributing editor of the Real Estate Law Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of The Practical Real Estate Lawyer. Her scholarly work has appeared in, among others, the Emory Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the University of Connecticut Law Review and the Real Estate Law Journal.

She is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Professor Phillips received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College.

Representative Publications

Boundaries of Exclusion, 72 MISSOURI L. REV. (forthcoming 2007).

Land Hungry, 21 VA. J. SOC. POL’Y & L. 293 (2005).

Dequity: The Blurring of Debt and Equity in Securitized Real Estate Financing, 2 BERKELEY BUS. L.J. 233 (2005).

Impossible, Impracticable or Just Expensive? Allocation of Ancillary Risk in the CMBS Market, 36 J. MARSHALL L. REV. 653 (2003).

Idolatry of Land, Current Legal Issues (vol. 5, Oxford University Press 2003).

The Emerging Secondary Mortgage Market in Latin America, 34 GEO. WASH. INT'L L. REV. 257 (2002) (with W. Vargas).

Subordinated Rolling Equity: Analyzing Real Estate Loan Defaults in the Era of Securitization, 50 EMORY L. J. 519 (2001).

Light, Air or Manhattanization? Communal Aesthetics in Zoning Central City Real Estate Development, 78 B.U. L. REV. 445 (1998).

Selling Municipal Property Tax Receivables: Economics, Privatization and Public Policy in an Era of Urban Distress, 30 CONN. L. REV. 157 (1997) (with L. Rogovoy & S. Wachter).

Collective Individualism: Deconstructing the Legal City, 145 U. PA. L. REV. 607 (1997).

For additional publications, please consult
Current & Recent Research

 
Georgette Phillips

Education

  • J.D. - Harvard - '85
  • B.A. - Bryn Mawr - '81