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Hispanic National Bar Association Commission On The Status Of Latinas In The Legal Profession: Study On Latina Attorneys In The Public Interest Sector, Jill Lynch Cruz, Melinda S. Molina, Jenny Rivera
Hispanic National Bar Association Commission On The Status Of Latinas In The Legal Profession: Study On Latina Attorneys In The Public Interest Sector, Jill Lynch Cruz, Melinda S. Molina, Jenny Rivera
City University of New York Law Review
This Report was originally prepared for and published by the Hispanic National Bar Association.
Suspect Fits Description: Responses To Racial Profiling In New York City, Darius Charney, Jesus Gonzalez, David M. Kennedy, Noel Leader, Robert Perry
Suspect Fits Description: Responses To Racial Profiling In New York City, Darius Charney, Jesus Gonzalez, David M. Kennedy, Noel Leader, Robert Perry
City University of New York Law Review
A panel discussion with Darius Charney, Jesus Gonzalez, David Kennedy, Noel Leader, and Robert Perry. September 29, 2010
A More Inclusive Democracy: Challenging Felon Jury Exclusion In New York, Paula Z. Segal
A More Inclusive Democracy: Challenging Felon Jury Exclusion In New York, Paula Z. Segal
City University of New York Law Review
New York excludes all individuals who have ever been convicted of a felony from its jury pool except in the most extraordinary circumstances.This practice undermines the representativeness of juries, their inclusiveness, as well as public confidence in the courts. It leaves whole communities underrepresented in one of the foundations of democracy. It also compromises an individual’s constitutional rights. People with felony conviction histories are included in the jury pools of nearly half of United States jurisdictions, yet the effectiveness of judicial systems in those jurisdictions has not been compromised. The mechanisms for insuring that juries are competent and unbiased—voir dire, …
Safety And Security In Urban Academic Libraries: A Risk Assessment Approach To Emergency Preparedness, Thomas Edgar Raffensperger
Safety And Security In Urban Academic Libraries: A Risk Assessment Approach To Emergency Preparedness, Thomas Edgar Raffensperger
Urban Library Journal
Academic libraries have developed a wide range of emergency preparedness policies, procedures, and training programs. Libraries have traditionally focused on the recovery of collections after an emergency. Risk assessment has focused on collections, largely as an outgrowth of valuation for insurance purposes and the core responsibility of libraries to safeguard collections. Risk assessment has rarely been systematically applied to personal safety and security. There is an anecdotal sense that urban academic libraries are subject to higher risk from property and violent crime than other academic libraries. This study examines the level of risk of property and violent crime using Clery …