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The Right To Enforce: Why Rluipa's Land Use Provisions Is A Constitutional Federal Enforcement Power, Qasim Rashid Jan 2013

The Right To Enforce: Why Rluipa's Land Use Provisions Is A Constitutional Federal Enforcement Power, Qasim Rashid

Law Student Publications

The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”) superseded the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”), which the Supreme Court held unconstitutional in its application to states in 1997. A two-pronged law, RLUIPA protects prisoners from unjust impositions to their freedom of worship and also ensures religious institutions may use their property for legitimate worship purposes without burdensome zoning law restrictions. This paper focuses specifically on the latter prong and analyzes RLUIPA in light of the growing Islamophobia in America during the previous twenty-four months. For example, the United States Department of Justice reports “of the eighteen RLUIPA matters involving …


Cases And Materials On American Property Law, 6th Edition, Carol N. Brown Jan 2012

Cases And Materials On American Property Law, 6th Edition, Carol N. Brown

Law Faculty Publications

This casebook continues its traditional approach to the teaching of property law. The new edition features a number of new cases inserted into almost every chapter of the book. The notes and comments have been appropriately updated. The opening chapter continues to include a section of cases designed to hone a student's skill in close case analysis. The book in its entirety introduces students to a broad spectrum of material traditionally covered in a first-year property course.


Review On Commentaries On The Laws Of England: A Facsimile Of The First Edition Of 1765-1769, William Hamilton Bryson Jan 1981

Review On Commentaries On The Laws Of England: A Facsimile Of The First Edition Of 1765-1769, William Hamilton Bryson

Law Faculty Publications

A book review on, Commentaries on the Laws of England: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769, by W. Blackstone.