Vicki Been | |
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Born |
Vicki L. Been Naturita, Colorado, U.S. |
Residence | New York City, New York |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
Colorado State University New York University School of Law |
Spouse(s) | Richard Revesz |
Children | 2 |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Property Law Land Use |
Institutions |
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development New York University School of Law |
Vicki L. Been is a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. She is a law professor at the New York University School of Law and has served as director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Her interests include property law, land use, and housing law.
Born in Naturita, Colorado, Been graduated from Colorado State University. After working for Consumers Union, she received a law degree from the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden scholar. Upon graduation, she clerked for judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Then she clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun from 1984 to 1985. During her clerkship, she met her husband, Richard Revesz, who was clerking for Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall.
After working for the Iran-Contra investigation and as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, Been began her academic career in 1988, joining the faculty of Rutgers-Newark School of Law, as an assistant professor. In 1990, she moved to the NYU law school, where she achieved tenure, in 1994 and serves as the Boxer Family professor of law. In 2004, she was named director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. In 2008, she was named an affiliated professor of public policy at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is a member of the American Law Institute.