The Glannon Guide to Property: Learning Property Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis, Fifth Edition

James Charles Smith is the John Byrd Martin Chair of Law Emeritus at the University of Georgia, where he joined the faculty in 1984. He graduated from Saint Olaf College and the University of Texas School of Law and practiced law for four years with the firm of Baker Botts in Houston, Texas, specializing primarily in real estate finance, commercial sales of real estate, retail and office leasing, and the formation of real estate partnerships and joint ventures. He is author of five books (Property: Cases and Materials; Real Estate Transactions: Problems, Cases, and Materials; Federal Taxation of Real Estate; Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property; and the Law of Neighbors) and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with property, housing, real estate transactions, commercial law, and taxation. He is a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) and department’s editor of the ABA magazine, Probate & Property. He has run the Boston Marathon five times.