Recently added articles from Fordham Urban Law Journal:
Public interest litigation: insights from theory and practice.
Jun 01, 2009; Cummings, Scott L. ... <Pre> Introduction I. Law and Social Change A. Litigation and Its Discontents B. Beyond Critique: The Pragmatic Turn in Law and Social Change Scholarship 1. Law as Politics 2. Relative Efficacy 3. Opportunities and Constraints ...
Public rights, global perspectives, and common law.
Jun 01, 2009; Davis, Martha F. ... <Pre> Introduction I. Public Rights Litigation and the Common Law A. Second-hand Smoke and the Implied Warranty of Habitability: Poyck v. Bryant B. Violence Against Women and Public Policy: Apessos v. Memorial Press Group C. Tort Claims for ...
Restoring legal aid for the poor: a call to end draconian and wasteful restrictions.
Jun 01, 2009; Diller, Rebekah ... <Pre> Introduction I. LSC: Committed to the American Promise of Equal Justice II. The LSC Restriction Regime A. 1996 Restrictions Sharply Curtail Advocacy Available to Poor Clients B. Extraordinary, Poison Pill Restriction Is out of Step with ...
Out with the new, in with the old: the importance of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act to prisoners with disabilities.
Jun 01, 2009; Ginsberg, Betsy ... <Pre> Introduction I. Demographics of the Prison Population II. Advantages of Statutory Disability-Rights Claims Over Constitutional Claims A. Advantages of Statutory Claims: Issues of Substantive Law 1. Eighth Amendment Claims 2 ....
"Whistle ... and you've got an audience.".
Jun 01, 2009; Leiter, Amanda C. ... <Pre> Introduction I. The Centrality of Whistleblowers II. Factors Affecting Whistleblower Utility III. Assessing the Utility of Real Whistleblowers A. Job Description B. Attitude C. Political and Professional Views and Relationships D. Context ...
Facial and as-applied challenges under the Roberts Court.
Jun 01, 2009; Metzger, Gillian E. ... <Pre> Introduction I. An Overview of the Roberts Court's Facial and As-Applied Case Law A. The 2005-2006 Term B. The 2006-2007 Term C. The 2007-2008 Term II. Implications of the Roberts Court Facial and As-Applied Jurisprudence for ...
Contracting (out) rights.
Jun 01, 2009; Sabbeth, Kathryn A. ... <Pre> Introduction I. How We Got Here A. The Gardner-Denver, Barrentine, and McDonald Trilogy B. Gilmer and the End of the Non-Waivability Principle 1. Employment Cases 2. Consumer Cases II. The Empirical Defense A. Fundamentally Flawed ...
A "new beginning" for adolescents in our criminal justice system.
Jun 01, 2009; Kaye, Judith S. ... In the spirit of the day, I begin with "new beginnings." On a personal level, recently I closed the door on twenty-five years as a judge of New York State's high court, fifteen of those years as Chief Judge of the State of New York, and commenced Chapter Three of my professional life. But ...
The Odyssey of Palazzolo: public rights litigation and coastal change.
Jun 01, 2009; Hatcher, Laura J. ... <Pre> Introduction I. Palazzolo's Regulatory Odyssey II. The Ocean State Conclusion </Pre> INTRODUCTION The questions of how responsible and how effective litigation on behalf of public fights is complicated in any of law, but perhaps issues involving ...
What local climate change plans can teach us about city power.
Jun 01, 2009; Trisolini, Katherine A. ... <Pre> Introduction I. Schroeder and Bulkeley's Study of London and Los Angeles II. Relative City Power: Structural Influences on Autonomy III. A City's Power Over Its Object: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Opportunities A. Local Power in the Proprietary Domain B ....
