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Enhancing Autonomy For Battered Women: Lessons From Navajo Peacemaking, Donna Coker

Articles

In this Article, Professor Donna Coker employs original empirical research to investigate the use of Navajo Peacemaking in cases involving domestic violence. Her analysis includes an examination of Navajo women's status and the impact of internal colonization. Many advocates for battered women worry that informal adjudication methods such as Peacemaking ignore domestic hierarchies of power and thus facilitate the batterer's ongoing violence against the victim. Those who endorse the use of Navajo Peacemaking and other systems of restorative justice believe that such processes are better equipped to cut through the batterer's denial and victim blaming and are more likely to …

Urban Sprawl, Federalism, And The Problem Of Institutional Complexity, William W. Buzbee

Fordham Law Review

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Balancing Interests And Maximizing Rights In Envrionmental Law, Tseming Yang

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Environmental Justice And Title Vi Challenges To Permit Decisions: The Epa's Interim Guidance, Maura Lynn Tierney

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Co-Evolution Of Sustainable Development And Environmental Justice: Cooperation, Then Competition, Then Conflict, J.B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This article explores sustainable development and environmental justice as potentially conflicting policy goals. Sustainable development includes equity as one of its five dimensions (in addition to environment, economy, time, and space), whereas environmental justice focuses principally on equity. Over time there is likely to be an increasing number of contexts in which sustainability-based policy solutions do not satisfy environmental justice advocates.

The Metrics Of Constitutional Amendments: And Why Proposed Environmental Quality Amendments Don't Measure Up, J.B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This article builds a model of federal constitutional amendments using proposed environmental quality rights amendments as a case study. I argue that environmental quality rights amendments are unworkable and violate the underpinnings of federal constitutional design.

Environmental Law, Scott D. Deatherage, Scott F. Wendorf

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Beyond Black And White: Selected Writings By Asian Americans Within The Critical Race Theory Movement Perspective., Harvey Gee

St. Mary's Law Journal

A new generation of progressive intellectuals has evolved, attempting to transform the manner in which law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. The latter half of the twentieth century proved to be a time of profound demographic changes. Racial and political reform policies of the post-modern Civil Rights Movement failed to fully respond to these dramatic social changes. A theory was created to address social racism because the “color-blind” model posited by the Supreme Court of the United States perpetuated racism by supporting the existing hierarchy. Critical Race Theory attempts to tackle these dramatic social changes …

Richmond Law Magazine: Winter 1999

Richmond Law Magazine

Feature:

Preparing for a Wired World

Thy Will Be Done On Earth: Christian Environmental Activism, James V. Bennett

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

The Most Creative Moments In The History Of Environmental Law: "The Who's", William H. Rodgers, Jr.

Articles

My definition of creativity in environmental law is any legal initiative that advances the subject with new levels of analysis, structure, or institutional bridges. There are two requirements: improvement on function and novelty. Law is better if it increases the prospect of protecting the natural world or its inhabitants. Law is novel if it combines mandate, process, or structure in unusual ways.

There are reasons to suspect that environmental law as a field may be more creative than other legal subjects such as trust and estates, contracts, property, or tax law. One reason, as Oliver Houck has said, is that …

Race, Space, And Place: The Geography Of Economic Development, Audrey G. Mcfarlane

San Diego Law Review

In 1993, Congress authorized a community and economic development program called The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Cities Demonstration Program ("Empowerment Zones Program") to create geographic zones within certain selected cities that would be eligible for special federal attention to alleviate pervasive conditions of

poverty and economic distress within the cities. The program is self- described as a strategy "to create jobs and business opportunities in [the]

most economically-distressed areas of inner cities' by providing tax incentives and social service funds within the zone to stimulate business creation and expansion and attain, over the long-term, revitalization of

the distressed community. The …

Learning From Nepa: Some Guidelines For Responsible Federal Risk Legislation, John S. Applegate, Celia Campbell-Mohn

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The past three or more Congresses have seen substantial efforts to enact "risk reform" legislation that would require environmental, health, and safety regulations to be adopted following the performance of risk assessments modeled on quantitative risk assessment methods for carcinogens. While such a requirement has potentially beneficial effects on the quality of the resulting rules, there is also a substantial potential for mischief by reorienting substantive environmental, health, and safety regulation, and by introducing substantial new costs and delays into the regulatory process. This article, which is derived from a report by the authors to support an American Bar Association …

Ecology And The Jewish Spirit: Where Nature And The Sacred Meet, Michael Burger

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

It's a real shame, but all political and social movements, at some point, break up into factions. The factions debate their relative necessity, claim authority over areas of discourse and action, and generally vie for power. They stop coordinating and communicating with each other. There are occasional acts of sabotage. The competition of the market economy (including the grant-funded non-profit sector) and the expanse of human vanity demand this distinction. Everyone needs to find their niche. An ecologist understands this as well as an economist, an activist as well as a lobbyist, a rabbi as well as a lawyer.

Vol.26 N.41 December 3rd 1998, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Resource Colonialism And Native Resistance: The Mining Wars In Wisconsin, Linda Marie Robyn

Dissertations

In recent years powerful multinational mining corporations have attempted to mine various minerals found on Indian lands in the northern region of Wisconsin. These lands are currently protected from corporate incursion by treaties between the Chippewa people and the United States government. The Chippewa are using the treaties as an obstacle to corporate access to their lands and to protect their lands from the environmental devastation that will occur from proposed mining ventures.

This case study utilizes a power-reflexive method to analyze the power of the state to control rich mineral resources known to be on reservation lands. Under examination …

Faculty Newsnotes 1998 No. 313, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, November 18, 1998

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University

The Connection Between Public Transit And Employment, Thomas W. Sanchez

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Even with a considerable amount of attention being paid to the role of public transportation in addressing inner-city mobility problems, there is very little evidence of the degree to which one affects the other. In other words, little research has specifically focused on how labor participation is impacted by increases in public transportation availability. Research on the spatial mismatch hypothesis has dealt with the relationship between labor participation and the spatial separation of jobs and houses; however, most analyses concentrate on commuting time or distance as a function of auto accessibility. Few, if any, studies have considered the relative impacts …

Oct. 29, 1998 (Faxed), A. Umana, Statement On Retiring From Wbip, Alvaro Umana

CAO Creation Pre-1999

No abstract provided.

Mixed Media October 11, 1998, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The October 11, 1998 issue includes articles on Ottawa Animation Festival, RISD Lecture Series, South Asian Students Association, student alliance meetings, along with the comic "Ben" by Frenzer, event notices, and other announcements.

Volume 36, Number 7: October 9, 1998, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Reporter - October 2nd 1998, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Fanning The Flames Of Nimby: A Book Review Of The Promise And Peril Of Environmental Justice, Gary A. Abraham

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

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That Was Then And This Is Now: An Economist's Wish List For The Llrw Siting Paradigm, Jeffrey Wagner

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Environmental Justice And Community Empowerment: Learning From The Civil Rights Movement , R. Gregory Roberts

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Books Received, Natural Resources Journal

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Board Of Trustees Minutes, September 25, 1998, Eastern Washington University

Board of Trustees Minutes

No abstract provided.

R.I.T. News & Events - September 24, 1998, University News Services, Rochester Institute Of Technology

University Publications

No abstract provided.