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Dylan And The Last Love Song Of The American Left, John M. Facciola
Dylan And The Last Love Song Of The American Left, John M. Facciola
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The reminiscences of an old man who had the joy of being a New York kid when an old American music form was transformed by the extraordinary efforts of a group of musicians who saw a new creative force that they thought could cause revolutionary social change. This article examines the impact of the friendship between Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie on folk music and describes the political consciousness of the music.
Funding Port-Related Infrastructure And Development: The Current Debate And Proposed Reform, Christopher T. Cook
Funding Port-Related Infrastructure And Development: The Current Debate And Proposed Reform, Christopher T. Cook
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Given the lack of consensus and certainty in how funding should best be generated to meet critical infrastructure and development needs, this Note proposes an amendment to the Shipping Act to provide port authorities with the express power to impose fees for the construction, operation, and maintenance of qualifying port-related infrastructure and development initiatives. The amendment would effectively spread the costs specific to qualifying initiatives over the useful life of the project. Part I discusses the relevant provisions and judicial standards associated with the Tonnage Clause and Shipping Act. Part II addresses the efforts by both Congress and port authorities …
Bob Dylan On Lenny Bruce: More Of An Outlaw Than You Ever Were, Louise Harmon
Bob Dylan On Lenny Bruce: More Of An Outlaw Than You Ever Were, Louise Harmon
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Essay seeks to compare and contrast two contemporary performing artists: Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce. Bruce and Dylan both became artists in the middle of twentieth-century America—in the same stew of ideas, myths, and shared assumptions. Both experienced the same winds of change, albeit at different stages of life, in the 1950s and 1960s, the post-World War II Cold War period, the burgeoning civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War. Both responded to these winds of change, and in so doing, transcended and transformed their respective art forms.
Why The Law Needs Music: Revisiting Naacp V. Button Through The Songs Of Bob Dylan, Renee Newman Knake
Why The Law Needs Music: Revisiting Naacp V. Button Through The Songs Of Bob Dylan, Renee Newman Knake
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The law needs music, a truth revealed by revisiting the United States Supreme Court’s opinion in NAACP v. Button through the songs of Bob Dylan and the play Music History. This Essay proceeds in three parts. Part I opens with a summary of the Court’s decision in NAACP v. Button, focusing particularly on the expanded understanding of First Amendment rights related to access to the law that flow from this legal opinion. Part II explains the inspiration for this Essay, Seaton’s play Music History, which reveals the influence of music on law and culture during the civil rights movement. Part …
Bob Dylan’S Lawyers, A Dark Day In Luzerne County, And Learning To Take Legal Ethics Seriously, Randy Lee
Bob Dylan’S Lawyers, A Dark Day In Luzerne County, And Learning To Take Legal Ethics Seriously, Randy Lee
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article examines the life of Bob Dylan and how his views can be used to improve legal ethics. Bob Dylan's views are applied to the legal ethics issues faced by the juvenile justice system in Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania’s Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice's call "to get serious" about legal ethics. "If we are, however, to get serious about legal ethics, then we will first have to see if we can “make any sense of it,” “pull it apart,” and see if any of it can fit back together in a meaningful way, in other words, do the kind …
Tangled Up In Law: The Jurisprudence Of Bob Dylan, Michael L. Perlin
Tangled Up In Law: The Jurisprudence Of Bob Dylan, Michael L. Perlin
Fordham Urban Law Journal
In this Article, I will try to create a topography of Bob-as-jurisprudential scholar by looking at selected Dylan songs in these discrete areas of law (and law-and-society): civil rights; inequality of the criminal justice system; institutions; governmental/judicial corruption; equality and emancipation (political and economic); poverty, the environment, and inequality of the civil justice system; and the role of lawyers and the legal process.
Life Cycles Of American Legal History Through Bob Dylan's Eyes, Laurie Serafino
Life Cycles Of American Legal History Through Bob Dylan's Eyes, Laurie Serafino
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article will examine, from a legal perspective, Dylan's ideas on social policy and change. It begins with an in-depth look at the treatment of African Americans before, during, and after the Civil War by looking at relevant legal statutes and Supreme Court Cases. This Article then looks to the second cycle of revolution to gain Dylan's attention, the struggle of the worker and immigrant during the twentieth century. This article concludes by examining current domestic issues in the third cycle of revolution-- specifically, how corporations exert significant domination over the political process.
When The Law Doesn't Work, Richard H. Underwood
When The Law Doesn't Work, Richard H. Underwood
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article looks at Dylan songs and traces them back to "true crime" to relate Dylan to the law. It looks at "Ballad of Hollis Brown," "Ballad of Donald White," "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," "Hurricane," "Percy's Song," and "Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues." Part I looks at Dylan's traditional songs. Part II looks at Dylan's finger-pointing songs. Finally, part III looks at "Bad Judge Ballads."
Dylan's Judgment On Judges: Power And Greed And Corruptible Seed Seem To Be All That There Is, David M. Zornow
Dylan's Judgment On Judges: Power And Greed And Corruptible Seed Seem To Be All That There Is, David M. Zornow
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article is presented in the form of an "Indictment" against judges brought by Bob Dylan, in the role of prosecutor. Indictment Part A contains a summary of Dylan's allegations against judges. Part B is background information. Part C alleges "Abuse of Power" as indictment count one. Part D alleges "Greed" as indictment count two. Part E alleges "Corruptible Seed" as indictment count three. Part F contains the indictments conclusion. Finally, the article concludes with a "Brady" letter.
Beyond The City Square: Fishing In Wider Pools Without Soundings, Monica A. Fennell
Beyond The City Square: Fishing In Wider Pools Without Soundings, Monica A. Fennell
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Monica Fennell begins a conversation in CITY SQUARE regarding the diversity in the judicial appointment process in the United Kingdom and the United States, a conversation sparked by Professor Judith Maute’s article English Reforms to Judicial Selection: Comparative Lessons for American States?
Against Mushy Balancing Tests In Blight Condemnation Jurisprudence, Roderick M. Hills
Against Mushy Balancing Tests In Blight Condemnation Jurisprudence, Roderick M. Hills
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Professor Somin has written an incisive critique of the New York Court of Appeals’ decisions in Kaur and Goldstein, the gist of which is that the Court did not do enough to stop “highly abusive blight condemnations.” There are, however, two difficulties with the critique. First, as a matter of legalistic interpretation of the New York Constitution, the critique is not very persuasive. Second, as a matter of policy, Professor Somin’s proposal is unlikely to be adopted by any judge influenced by the same political process that lead to the condemnations that Professor Somin attacks.
Reflections On Professor Romero’S Insight On The Decriminalization Of Border Crossings, Won Kidane
Reflections On Professor Romero’S Insight On The Decriminalization Of Border Crossings, Won Kidane
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Professor Romero proposes that unauthorized border crossings must be decriminalized. He advances several notable reasons why such a measure is warranted. Kidane offers his own reflections in the following three parts. Part I puts the doctrinal dilemma between criminalization and decriminalization in perspective. Part II evaluates Professor Romero’s argument in favor of decriminalization. And the Conclusion offers final thoughts.
Leveraging Bias In Forensic Science, Roger Koppl
Leveraging Bias In Forensic Science, Roger Koppl
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Dr. Simon Cole calls for a more hierarchical organization of forensic science in his challenging Article, Acculturating Forensic Science: What is ‘Scientific Culture’, and How can Forensic Science Adopt it? Koppl thinks Dr. Cole is right to say that there are different roles in forensic science, but somewhat mistaken in his call for hierarchy.
Toward A Future, Wiser Court: A Blueprint For Overturning District Of Columbia V. Heller, Richard M. Aborn, Marlene Koury
Toward A Future, Wiser Court: A Blueprint For Overturning District Of Columbia V. Heller, Richard M. Aborn, Marlene Koury
Fordham Urban Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Poverty Law 101: The Law And History Of The U.S. Welfare State, Karen M. Tani
Poverty Law 101: The Law And History Of The U.S. Welfare State, Karen M. Tani
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Poverty law will remain marginalized so long as we confine it to a population that we and our students understand as marginal. Tani discusses Professor Wax’s characterization of the “old welfare law framework,” as well as her account of what happened to it, and would not advocate a return to a court-centered, advocacy-oriented approach.
Symposium: Bob Dylan And The Law Foreword, Samuel J. Levine
Symposium: Bob Dylan And The Law Foreword, Samuel J. Levine
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Taken together, the articles in this Symposium Issue provide a journey through both Bob Dylan’s career and the American legal landscape. Befitting a legal prophet, Dylan is often critical, skeptical, and cynical, at times uncompromising in his portrayal of the failures of American law and society. The presentations at the Dylan and the Law Symposium reflected, in part, the disappointment and frustration expressed in Dylan’s words and music. Yet, the speakers at the Symposium echoed another side of Bob Dylan’s work: a refusal to surrender or despair in the face of disheartening reality. Instead, drawing upon Dylan’s prophetic dreams and …
The Freewheelin’ Judiciary: A Bob Dylan Anthology, Alex B. Long
The Freewheelin’ Judiciary: A Bob Dylan Anthology, Alex B. Long
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Judges at all levels in the United States judicial system have cited Bob Dylan far more often than any other popular music artist. The logical question then becomes, “why?” Why is Dylan (rather than John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, or some other prominent and sociallyconscious songwriter) the preferred songwriter for judges, and why do judges feel the need to cite Dylan’s lyrics to begin with? What are they hoping to convey to the reader about the legal issue at hand, the legal system in general, or about themselves that causes them to rely on the works of Dylan? What type of …
Arrested Development: Bob Dylan, Held For Questioning Under Suspicion Of "Autism", Alex Lubet
Arrested Development: Bob Dylan, Held For Questioning Under Suspicion Of "Autism", Alex Lubet
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article discusses an encounter Bob Dylan had with the law and its meaning in the context of the social constructions of mental disability, in general, and on autism in particular. The author does not speculate on Dylan's autism status.
"No Older 'N Seventeen": Defending In Dylan Country, Abbe Smith
"No Older 'N Seventeen": Defending In Dylan Country, Abbe Smith
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article is about an actual experience the author had defending a teenager accused of a serious crime where Bob Dylan grew up-- the Minnesota Iron Range. In order to protect the young man's privacy, it does not divulge the actual time period of the case. Likewise, details about his life and the charges he was facing have been changed. His name has been changed to Jamal. Things did not go well for Jamal. Though a child when he was sent from the juvenile jail outside of Washington, D.C. to a secure treatment facility for serious juvenile offenders in the …
Law As A Profession: Examining The Role Of Accountability, Susan Saab Fortney
Law As A Profession: Examining The Role Of Accountability, Susan Saab Fortney
Fordham Urban Law Journal
No abstract provided.