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Sensibilities For Social Justice Lawyers, Ascanio Piomelli

UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice

This essay describes six sensibilities that are crucial for 21st Century social justice lawyers. It urges social justice lawyers to know thoroughly the literature on lawyering and social change movements, to be clear about their fundamental aims, to connect their efforts with others, to observe from multiple perspectives, to combat cultural encapsulation, and to put in the time necessary to ensure the survival, advancement, and flourishing of clients and communities.

The Cost Of Progress: Enduring The Tax Deductibility Of International Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives, Wayne C. Wood

Global Business Law Review

Until the end of the twentieth century, the predominant view in America was that a corporation’s sole duty was to supply wealth to its shareholders. The idea that a corporation owes a broader duty to all of its stakeholders has gained ground based largely on the emerging international recognition of human rights norms. Increasingly American MNCs have opted to voluntarily create and implement CSR policies for moral, economic, and political reasons. While charitable donations made to exempt organizations are expressly deductible under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code, the same might not be true for a given CSR expenditure. …

Canadian Mining Companies And Domestic Law Reform: A Critical Legal Account, Charis Kamphuis

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

This article offers a critical legal account of law reform efforts undertaken by activists in Canada from 2005 to 2012 in relation to the resource extraction activities of Canadian companies operating abroad. The relevant reform proposals are reviewed in terms of three periods. In the first, federal advisors made proposals that attempt to reconcile private and public approaches to regulation. In the second, the federal government responded with a corporate social responsibility policy predicated on volunteerism. This policy is unprecedented in that its central concern is the presumed risk that civil society concerns present to Canadian companies. In the third …

The Networked Infrastructure Of Fossil Capitalism: Implications Of The New Pipeline Debates For Environmental Justice In Canada, Dayna Nadine Scott

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

A read of the critical geography literature on the concept of “networked infrastructures” generates two arguments in relation to the environmental justice implications of the new pipeline debates. First, the proposed coast-to-coast pipeline is likely to exacerbate existing environmental inequities in Canada. Conceiving of the crude oil in a pipeline as a material flow of commodified nature demonstrates that, at the end of the pipe, inputs of labor, technology and capital are required to convert the crude into useable forms of energy. This leads to a serious engagement with the communities at the ends of the proposed pipes. Here, I …

Changes Spark Interest In Sustainable Urban Places: But How Do We Identify And Support Them?, John R. Nolon

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Changes in climatic and demographic trends are sparking renewed interest in cities generally and sustainable communities particularly. On the one hand, residents and workers in denser, mixed-use neighborhoods served by transit have half the carbon footprint of those in spread-out suburban areas. On the other hand, many of the smaller households that characterize the nation’s growing population prefer to live in precisely those compact, mixed-use neighborhoods. In New York, these changes align with several new state policies that encourage cities and towns to reduce carbon emissions, reduce vehicle travel, create sustainable buildings and neighborhoods, and preserve the landscapes that sequester …

Introduction To The Symposium, Christopher Serkin, Gregg Macey

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

Recovering From The Recovery Narrative: On Glocalism, Green Jobs And Cyborg Civilization, Michael Burger

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

In this Essay, I make a preliminary foray into new narrative terrain, identifying several emerging legal storylines that have arisen in the wake of climate change disruptions and that I predict will prove influential in the coming years. In Part I, I discuss the ways in which new perceptions of scale are re-defining human beings' attachments to a sense of "place" or "dwelling" and are shaping new attitudes about what constitutes the local, posing potential problems for existing federalism schemes. In Part II, I discuss the ways in which America's long history of nationalizing nature manifests in the discourse surrounding …

Organizing For Environmental Justice: From Bridges To Taro Patches, Amy Krings, Michael S. Spencer, Kelcie Jimenez

Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Corporate Energy Responsibility: International And Domestic Perspectives On Supply And Demand In The New Millenium, Steven Ferrey

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Stasis And Change In Environmental Law: The Past, Present And Future Of The Fordham Environmental Law Review, Gerald S. Dickinson, Shiela R. Foster

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Environmental Justice And Environmental Law, Alice Kaswan

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

2013 Winter Class Schedule, University Of Michigan Law School

Class Schedules

Class schedule for the 2013 Winter semester at the University of Michigan Law School

Winter 2013 Utton Center Newsletter, Utton Center, University Of New Mexico - School Of Law

Publications

No abstract provided.

Community Education And Access To Justice In A Time Of Scarcity: Notes From The West Grove Trolley Garage Case, Anthony V. Alfieri

Articles

No abstract provided.

Beyond A Beautiful Fraud: Using A Human Rights Framework To Realize The Promise Of Democracy, Janel A. George

University of Baltimore Law Review

"[Politics] is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years . . ."

-The late Honorable Shirley Chisholm'

Review Of Pioneer Performances: Staging The Frontier By Matthew Rebhorn, Theresa Strouth Gaul

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Important works on U.S. drama have emphasized the radically unstable nature of performance, finding it a shifting and contested ideological space. Despite this recent critical turn, Matthew Rebhorn argues that considerations of the frontier in drama and performance have remained singularly resistant to recognizing the various meanings that emerged in performances of the frontier. Arguing against the assumption that nineteenth-century frontier dramas were always a straightforward means of forwarding expansionist ideologies, Rebhorn explores how performances promulgated a “much more variegated and diffuse notion of the frontier” than has been heretofore acknowledged, one that sometimes “aimed to undercut the central tenets …

Review Of Gunfight At The Eco-Corral: Western Cinema And The Environment By Robin L. Murray And Joseph K. Heumann., Stephen Rust

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Is there any image from Hollywood cinema more iconic than a lone cowboy riding across a Western landscape? While much has been written about such themes as individualism, empire, and landscape in Hollywood Westerns, until recently scholars have ignored the central trope underlying all others in these films—the ecological relationship between humans and their environment. The Western, as Robin Murray and Joseph Heumann explain, both masks and unmasks this trope by dramatizing and oversimplifying ecological issues while mythologizing the cowboy’s relationship with the land. In this comprehensive study, the authors build on their previous work on popular cinema and animated …

An Honors Interdisciplinary Community-Based Research Course, David Dunbar, Melissa Terlecki, Nancy Watterson, Lisa Ratmansky

Honors in Practice Online Archive

BACKGROUND

Community-Based Research (CBR) is an important extension and development of existing community service learning (Stoecker). CBR has as its emphasis research questions asked or needed by the community and, therefore, positions students working alongside community members with the purpose of solving a community issue or creating social change. In doing so, it also allows student development of research skills and methods. A hallmark of CBR is collaboration between a community and academicians through all steps in the course design process, including the crafting of the initial research planning stages, implementation of the research, and dissemination of results and knowledge …

An Honors Interdisciplinary Community-Based Research Course, David Dunbar, Melissa Terlecki, Nancy Watterson, Lisa Ratmansky

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Community-Based Research (CBR) is an important extension and development of existing community service learning (Stoecker). CBR has as its emphasis research questions asked or needed by the community and, therefore, positions students working alongside community members with the purpose of solving a community issue or creating social change. In doing so, it also allows student development of research skills and methods. A hallmark of CBR is collaboration between a community and academicians through all steps in the course design process, including the crafting of the initial research planning stages, implementation of the research, and dissemination of results and knowledge (Israel …

Volume 58 Masthead

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Environmental Justice As An Essential Tool In Environmental Review Statutes: A New Look At Federal Policies And Civil Rights Protections And California’S Recent Initiatives, Alan Ramo

UC Law Environmental Journal

No abstract provided.

Website: 2013 Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium, Colby College

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium 2013 Website

Contents:

Keynote Speaker

Schedule - Wednesday

Schedule - Thursday

Schedule - Friday

Poster Program

Associated Sessions

Abstracts

Honors Program

Participating Departments/Programs

Environmental Courts In Russia: To Be Or Not To Be, Aleksey Pavlovich Anisimov, Anatoly Yakavlevich Ryzhenkov

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Takings And Transmission, Alexandra B. Klass

Articles

Ever since the Supreme Court's controversial 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, courts, state legislatures, and the public have scrutinized eminent domain actions like never before. Such scrutiny has focused, for the most part, on the now-controversial “economic development” or “public purpose” takings involved in Kelo. By contrast, until recently, there has been little change in law or public opinion with regard to takings involving publicly owned projects such as schools, post offices, and other government buildings, or “use by the public” takings that condemn land for railroad lines, electric transmission lines, or other infrastructure projects. However, …

Bringing Sustainability Programs To Usfsp., Anna Lewis, Karin Braunsberger, Leon Hardy, Richard Ferner, David O'Neill, Sharon Joy Kleitsch, Frederick Bennett, Daphne Lambright, Debra T. Sinclair, Aaron Wasserman, Catherine Wonders, Kevin Blossfeld, Lauren Reilly, Usfsp Sustainability Work Group

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A New Model Of Corporate Social Responsibility In The 21st Century, John D. Feerick

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ann Scales Imagines Us: From The Eco-Pornographic Story To The Medusan Counternarrative, Jane Caputi

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.

Grappling With Structure, Social Construction, And Morality: Towards A Human Rights Approach To Social Problems Instruction, Eric Bonds

Societies Without Borders

This essay proposes a human rights approach to social problems instruction, whereby social problems are defined as conditions in which a group’s human rights are violated due to their position in a social structure. The approach advocated here draws upon the strengths of the values-structure and social constructionist heritages in the teaching of social problems, while also correcting for some of their individual weaknesses and limitations. The essay closes by outlining what such a class might look like and includes a list of possible teaching resources and a sample class syllabus.

Cafta-Dr's Citizen Submission Process: Is It Protecting The Indigenous Peoples Rights And Promoting The Three Pillars Of Sustainable Development? , Josephine M. Balzac

Loyola University Chicago International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dynamic Energy Federalism, Hari M. Osofsky, Hannah J. Wiseman

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.