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January Session: Kirstin Nelson – “Heirs Property”
Please join VALL for our January Session “Heirs Property” with Kirstin Nelson. This session will examine the history and legal issues around heirs’ property, a significant contributor of Black urban and agricultural land loss over the past 100 years. Heirs’ property issues arise when real property is passed down through generations without a will, resulting in a ‘cloudy’ title and a complex ownership structure. Law librarians can help raise awareness, become familiar with legal resources that can assist those impacted by heirs’ property issues, and support the passage of the Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act.
Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 12:00pm-1:00pm
Cost: FREE for VALL members, non-members, and students!
This session was hosted via Zoom and was recorded.
About the Speaker:
Kirstin Nelson is the Senior Law Librarian and Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library (NAL). She joined NAL in 2014 to coordinate a newly formed agricultural law partnership with the National Agricultural Law Center in Arkansas and the Center for Agricultural and Food Systems at the Vermont Law School. The partnership creates a range of tools and guides on agricultural and food systems legal research. Key audiences include attorneys, policymakers, agricultural professionals, and the general public involved in agricultural industries in the United States. Over the past two years, the Ag Law Partnership has focused primarily on equity issues related to food and agriculture. Prior to her work at NAL, Kirstin worked in several law firm libraries, did a brief stint in academia, and spend seven years as a librarian relations specialist for a vendor. She also teaches Advanced legal Research at University of Maryland Carey School of Law.
