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Legislative Updates Jan 2007

Legislative Updates

The Modern American

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Caution, Cooperative Agreements, And The Actual State Of Things: A Reply To Professor Fletcher, Ezra Rosser Jan 2006

Caution, Cooperative Agreements, And The Actual State Of Things: A Reply To Professor Fletcher, Ezra Rosser

Ezra Rosser

This short article argues that tribal governments considering entering into cooperative agreements with federal, state, or local governments ought to maintain a healthy skepticism regarding the non-tribal governments sitting across from them at the negotiating table and the appropriateness of entering into cooperative agreements.


Rural Housing And Code Enforcement: Navigating Between Values And Housing Types, Ezra Rosser Jan 2006

Rural Housing And Code Enforcement: Navigating Between Values And Housing Types, Ezra Rosser

Ezra Rosser

This paper focuses on the relationship between rural housing and building codes. The paper covers the relationship between the existing urban based literature on housing conditions and the rural housing situation as well as a theoretical exploration of different ways of understanding value in housing. Finally, two rural case studies - the Navajo Nation and a small Colorado subdivision - illustrate the challenges of rural housing code enforcement and demonstrate how officials could benefit from the model.


Advancing The Right To Adequate Housing Of Desperately Poor People: City Of Johannesburg V. Rand Properties, Lilian Chenwi Jan 2006

Advancing The Right To Adequate Housing Of Desperately Poor People: City Of Johannesburg V. Rand Properties, Lilian Chenwi

Human Rights Brief

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Caution, Cooperative Agreements, And The Actual State Of Things: A Reply To Professor Fletcher, Ezra Rosser Jan 2006

Caution, Cooperative Agreements, And The Actual State Of Things: A Reply To Professor Fletcher, Ezra Rosser

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This short article argues that tribal governments considering entering into cooperative agreements with federal, state, or local governments ought to maintain a healthy skepticism regarding the non-tribal governments sitting across from them at the negotiating table and the appropriateness of entering into cooperative agreements.


Rural Housing And Code Enforcement: Navigating Between Values And Housing Types, Ezra Rosser Jan 2006

Rural Housing And Code Enforcement: Navigating Between Values And Housing Types, Ezra Rosser

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This paper focuses on the relationship between rural housing and building codes. The paper covers the relationship between the existing urban based literature on housing conditions and the rural housing situation as well as a theoretical exploration of different ways of understanding value in housing. Finally, two rural case studies - the Navajo Nation and a small Colorado subdivision - illustrate the challenges of rural housing code enforcement and demonstrate how officials could benefit from the model.


The Trade-Off Between Self-Determination And The Trust Doctrine: Tribal Government And The Possibility Of Failure, Ezra Rosser Jan 2005

The Trade-Off Between Self-Determination And The Trust Doctrine: Tribal Government And The Possibility Of Failure, Ezra Rosser

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This paper argues that tribes and scholars need to come to grips with the trade-off between trust and self-determination, and that failure to do so-by for example expressing a yearning that the trust doctrine was stronger-will lead to poor choices by tribes. Choices thus need to be based on an understanding of this trade-off and tribes must be aware that exercising self-determination inevitably will lead to a weakening of the trust doctrine over the areas which tribe's assume authority. This point is illustrated using a close analysis of the arguments used by the parties and the Supreme Court's treatment of …


The Trade-Off Between Self-Determination And The Trust Doctrine: Tribal Government And The Possibility Of Failure, Ezra Rosser Jan 2005

The Trade-Off Between Self-Determination And The Trust Doctrine: Tribal Government And The Possibility Of Failure, Ezra Rosser

Ezra Rosser

This paper argues that tribes and scholars need to come to grips with the trade-off between trust and self-determination, and that failure to do so-by for example expressing a yearning that the trust doctrine was stronger-will lead to poor choices by tribes. Choices thus need to be based on an understanding of this trade-off and tribes must be aware that exercising self-determination inevitably will lead to a weakening of the trust doctrine over the areas which tribe's assume authority. This point is illustrated using a close analysis of the arguments used by the parties and the Supreme Court's treatment of …


The Nature Of Representation: The Cherokee Right To A Congressional Delegate, Ezra Rosser Jan 2005

The Nature Of Representation: The Cherokee Right To A Congressional Delegate, Ezra Rosser

Ezra Rosser

This paper explores the history and present day implications of the Cherokee Nation's 1835 treaty-based right to a Congressional Delegate.


The Nature Of Representation: The Cherokee Right To A Congressional Delegate, Ezra Rosser Jan 2005

The Nature Of Representation: The Cherokee Right To A Congressional Delegate, Ezra Rosser

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This paper explores the history and present day implications of the Cherokee Nation's 1835 treaty-based right to a Congressional Delegate.


A Home Of One's Own: The Fair Housing Amendments Act Of 1988 And Housing Discrimination Against People With Mental Disabilities, Arlene S. Kanter Jan 1994

A Home Of One's Own: The Fair Housing Amendments Act Of 1988 And Housing Discrimination Against People With Mental Disabilities, Arlene S. Kanter

American University Law Review

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Redrafting Municipal Housing Codes, Barlow Burke Jan 1971

Redrafting Municipal Housing Codes, Barlow Burke

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

No abstract provided.