As a law scholar, author, and leader of the Coalition for Property Tax Justice, Bernadette Atuahene studies the impact of systemic racism on homeownership. A 2018 study by Professor Atuahene and Christopher Berry of the Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago estimated that 1 in 10 tax foreclosures in Detroit between 2011 […]
Bernadette Atuahene
Bernadette Atuahene is a Harvard and Yale-trained property law scholar whose work focuses on land and homes stolen from Black people. She currently holds the Duggan Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Atuahene has served as a judicial clerk at the South African Constitutional Court, worked as a consultant for the South African Land Claims Commission, and practiced at a global law firm called Cleary Gottlieb. She is the author of We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program, and she directed and produced an award-winning short documentary film, Sifuna Okwethu (We Want What’s Ours), about one South African family’s struggle to regain their land. Atuahene has won several accolades and has published extensively in academic journals such as the California Law Review and the NYU Law Review as well as in news outlets such as the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.