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Land Trusts That Conserve Communities, James J. Kelly
Land Trusts That Conserve Communities, James J. Kelly
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Much has been written about land trusts that conserve wilderness, agriculture or other environmentally beneficial uses that would be threatened by unfettered development. In the context of inner-cities, Community Land Trusts (CLTs) conserve neighborhoods. Like their environmental and agricultural counterparts, CLTs employ use restrictions to prioritize communally beneficial development. Conserving communities, however, requires other legal tools as well. CLTs create and sustain permanently affordable homes to break the market’s bias toward socioeconomic homogeneity. CLTs also make room, literally, for green space, sites of shared culture and other productive activities that the market tends to commercialize or marginalize. By sustaining a …
The Church And The Law, Thomas L. Shaffer
The Church And The Law, Thomas L. Shaffer
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The image I want to use to talk about the church in the state, from a Christian lawyer's point of view, is in two of the novels of the late theological storyteller Walker Percy. We Percy readers first saw the image in Love in the Ruins. Percy's sub-title for that novel was "The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World." His setting is the not-too-distant future in North America. Social climate and civil discourse are even worse than they are now. Percy's central figure, Dr. Thomas More, the bad Catholic, and a few …
Faith In The Republic: A Frances Lewis Law Center Conversation, Thomas L. Shaffer, Stanley Hauerwas, Sanford Levinson, Mark V. Tushnet, Harlan R. Beckley, Lewis H. Larue, Ann M. Massie, David K. Millon, R. Neville Richardson, O. Kendall White
Faith In The Republic: A Frances Lewis Law Center Conversation, Thomas L. Shaffer, Stanley Hauerwas, Sanford Levinson, Mark V. Tushnet, Harlan R. Beckley, Lewis H. Larue, Ann M. Massie, David K. Millon, R. Neville Richardson, O. Kendall White
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This is a spontaneous conversation discussing Hauserwas’ singular political theology in response to Levinson and Tushnet’s constitutional jurisprudence. It developed into a highly interesting debate concerning constitutional faith. This conversation was recorded at Washington and Lee’s Law Center on December 11, 1987.