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Vanderbilt University Law School

Administrative Law

1969

Urban development

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The Local Administrative Agencies, Maurice H. Merrill May 1969

The Local Administrative Agencies, Maurice H. Merrill

Vanderbilt Law Review

We have become accustomed to the concept, once thoroughly horrendous to most lawyers, that the dispensation of justice may, be properly entrusted to those tribunals which, for want of a better term, we label administrative. In past years they were considered the illicit offspring of miscegenatious commingling of powers which,constitutionally, should have been kept in rigid segregation. In the last half century, this habit of thought has all but disappeared; our concern has been rather with the full acknowledgment and acceptance of these agencies into the family of makers and appliers of the law. We have undertaken to nurture and …


The Model Cities Program, Otto J. Hetzel, David E. Pinsky May 1969

The Model Cities Program, Otto J. Hetzel, David E. Pinsky

Vanderbilt Law Review

The period from 1961 through 1965 saw a dramatic increase in the number of federal grant-in-aid programs and the total federal funding levels directed at curing the ills of the urban community. There was a persistent anxiety, however, that, despite the proliferation of new drugs administered to the patient for his array of symptoms, the progress was not satisfactory, and that time was running out. In October, 1965, a Task Force on Urban Problems was appointed by President Johnson to study urban problems and recommend action. The Task Force looked at the prior efforts and decided a new approach was …