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What Congress Knows And Sometimes Doesn't Know, Muriel Morisey Spence
What Congress Knows And Sometimes Doesn't Know, Muriel Morisey Spence
University of Richmond Law Review
It is a striking feature of the legislative process that Congress is neither required to articulate reasons for its actions nor subject to constitutional challenge merely on the ground that its choices are uninformed. The Constitution contains a variety of procedural rules for enacting legislation. It also requires that statutes conform to a number of substantive requirements. But Congress has traditionally enjoyed wide latitude in deciding whether and to what extent it bases decisions on policy-relevant knowledge or articulates the factual foundations for its actions. Until recently, even when evaluating statutes under close judicial scrutiny, the Supreme Court has tended …
The Twilight Of Land-Use Controls: A Paradigm Shift?, Charles M. Haar
The Twilight Of Land-Use Controls: A Paradigm Shift?, Charles M. Haar
University of Richmond Law Review
The subject chosen for this discussion is both timely and thought-provoking: the status and future of land-use regulations in the United States. In the hope of making the issues subsumed under this title as exciting to the general public as they are to the practitioners, Professor Michael Allan Wolf has taken the monumental Euclid decision of the United States Supreme Court in 1926 as the pivot of our deliberations. He has posed the question most dramatically with overtones of a swelling Wagnerian overture: "Is It The Twilight of Environmental and Land-Use Regulation?"
Life, Liberty & Whose Property?: An Essay On Property Rights, Loren A. Smith
Life, Liberty & Whose Property?: An Essay On Property Rights, Loren A. Smith
University of Richmond Law Review
This essay explores the place that the concept of property rights occupies in our constitutional system. The word "property" has been used in a number of ways in the history of our Republic.