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The King’S Best Highway: The Lost History Of The Boston Post Road, The Route That Made America (Review), Michael R. Fein
The King’S Best Highway: The Lost History Of The Boston Post Road, The Route That Made America (Review), Michael R. Fein
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
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Tunnel Vision: “Invisible” Highways And Boston’S “Big Dig” In The Age Of Privatization, Michael R. Fein
Tunnel Vision: “Invisible” Highways And Boston’S “Big Dig” In The Age Of Privatization, Michael R. Fein
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
While most analyses of late-twentieth-century highway policy suggest a shift toward open system design, bottom-up federalism, and the devolution of transportation governance, the history of Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel project, informally known as the “Big Dig,” runs counter to this trend. Though the project emerged in the 1970s during a time of unprecedented citizen activism in transportation planning, ultimately the privatization of political power proved to be the Big Dig’s most important legacy for twenty-first-century urban highway projects.
The Highway Revolution, 1895–1925: How The United States Got Out Of The Mud (Review), Michael R. Fein
The Highway Revolution, 1895–1925: How The United States Got Out Of The Mud (Review), Michael R. Fein
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
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No Place To Stand: The Incoherent Legal World Of J. K. Rowling, Kenneth Schneyer
No Place To Stand: The Incoherent Legal World Of J. K. Rowling, Kenneth Schneyer
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
It is astonishing, when one thinks of it, that a series of children's books is so crammed with law. Not one of the seven Harry Potter novels fails to explore difficult issues law, interpretation and especially the relationship of the state to the individual. From practically the first page of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (SS) we ponder issues of child custody, fosterage and adoption;1 before Harry even gets to Hogwarts we have heard about crime and punishment,2 legal control over the use of magic,3 monetary policy,4 and Wizarding government.5 Before the series is complete we have witnessed five …
Hooting: Public And Popular Discourse About Sex Discrimination, Kenneth Schneyer
Hooting: Public And Popular Discourse About Sex Discrimination, Kenneth Schneyer
Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research
In recent years there have been a surprising number of legal attacks on the restaurant chain called Hooters. These attacks have all been based, one way or another, on a claim of sex discrimination in employment. Yet the attacks vary considerably: some are based on claims of sexual harassment, some on claims by private individuals that they have been discriminated against in hiring because they are male, still others on general claims that the chain is engaged in systemic sex discrimination. Many of these claims are concerned with the troubling boundaries of the bona fide occupational qualification, that uncomfortable defense …