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Robert Hockett, Professor of Law at Cornell University and Fellow at the Century Foundation in New York, is a designer of the eminent domain approach to underwater mortgage debt. More on the plan can be found, e.g., in his recent paper for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the subject.
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