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In the wake of several incidents of unprecedented rainfall and disastrous flooding, both New York and New Jersey have adopted laws requiring the sellers of residential properties to tell buyers, and landlords to tell tenants, about known flood risks. The New Jersey law also requires disclosures in commercial transactions.
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Michael B. Gerrard
Michael B. Gerrard is a professor at Columbia Law School and founder and faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Among his books is Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (3rd ed., co-edited with. Jody Freeman and Michael Burger, 2023).
