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Lawyering For Poor Communities In The Twenty-First Century, Matthew Diller

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Symposium focuses on a renewed focus on community lawyering. Finding new ways to work with and engage poor communities is among the most important pieces of any new agenda for poverty law. By focusing on the goal of building community institutions and organizations, poverty lawyers can help poor communities in a number of vital ways. First, they can help communities create structures for the provision of services that government has failed to provide. Thus, poverty lawyers can provide much needed legal representation in the establishment of community-based housing, health care, day care and other programs that meet vital needs. …

Dangerous Crossing: State Brownfields Recycling And Federal Enterprise Zoning, Michael Allan Wolf

Law Faculty Publications

Urban policymakers over the past two decades have engineered a curious and potentially dangerous intersection of late 20th Century policies designed to foster the rebirth of America's distressed urban regions. First, we find widespread enthusiasm about the potential for reusing brownfields 1 (typically contaminated urban sites), which has stimulated an impressive range of initiatives at all levels of government. 2 Second, after more than a decade of sitting on the sidelines and watching the states battle over the ideal range of incentives that will most effectively drive inner-city redevelopment, the federal government finally entered the fray in the 1990s with …

A Reply To Messrs. Berger And Kanner, Lois J. Schiffer

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Emissions Trading: Pollution Panacea Or Environmental Injustice, Lorna Jaynes

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Environmental Law, Kelley A. Kinney, Andrea West Wortzel

University of Richmond Law Review

This article reviews the key environmental developments at the federal and state levels during the period from June 1996 to June 1998. Legislation and judicial decisions are presented topically. Certain issues, such as public participation and environmental justice, are playing an increasing role and will likely impact all media.

Cadmium Removal Using Cladophora In A Flow Reactor, Ryan Dorn

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Philippines Indigenous Peoples Rights Act, Patricia Thompson

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Encouraging Industry In Order To Preserve Non-Commercial Property, Katherine X. Vasiliades

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.

Sustainable Development As A Framework For National Governance, John C. Dernbach

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

Vol. X_Issue 1_Spring 1998, Puntos De Vista - Westside Neighborhood , Santa Fe

Puntos de Vista: A Westside Neighborhood Newsletter (1989-1998), Santa Fe, NM

No abstract provided.

Rodrigo's Roadmap: Is The Marketplace Theory For Eradicating Discrimination A Blind Alley, Richard Delgado

Articles

No abstract provided.

New Orleans' French Quarter: Framing Diverse Visions Of Urban Living, John Foley

College of Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA) Working Papers, 1991-2000

This article describes a new course (Environmental Justice Movement) initiated at the College of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans in the Spring of 1995. It was designed as a companion to another course, Environmental Planning. The course objectives are to prepare planning students to engage in the environmental policy debate by exposing them to its historical, moral, and technical dimensions, and by examining strategies and tactics of planning practice that would enable them to apply their analytic and research skills to appropriate roles of advocacy and mediation and community planing. It is argued that if …

Justice From The Ground Up: Distributive Inequities, Grassroots Resistance, And The Transformative Politics Of The Environmental Justice Movement, Sheila R. Foster

Faculty Scholarship

In this Article, Professor Foster examines the environmental justice movement from the "ground up"-from the perspective of the predominantly poor, African-American residents of Chester, Pennsylvania who attempted to stop the clustering of waste facilities in their community. From this perspective, Professor Foster evaluates the manner in which the phenomenon of environmental injustice is framed, the efficacy of reforms in environmental decision-making processes, and the strategies and possibilities of grass roots efforts in achieving environmental justice. She argues that the distributive paradigm that often frames discussions of environmental injustice obscures the mechanisms and processes underlying inequitable outcomes, thwarting a full understanding …

Access To Justice, Academic Freedom, And Political Interference: A Clinical Program Under Siege, Peter A. Joy, Charles D. Weisselberg

Clinical Law Review

Attacks on poor people's access to justice and on the academic freedom of students and teachers are not new. Perhaps it is only inevitable that as "real-client" law school clinical programs proliferate, these programs will sometimes become the target of politicians and others who disagree with the clinics' work. Many of us who teach in clinical programs have received inquiries from people outside of the law school community, such as alumni, legislators, or trustees, who ask why "the law school" is involved in a particular case. Most of these inquiries are benign, and alumni, legislators, and trustees are satisfied once …

Contaminated Communities: A Video Documentary Of The Alberton, Montana Mixed-Chemical Spill And An Analysis Of How Its Effects On Toxics Victims Fits Into A Larger Contamination Framework From A Political Ecology Perspective, Lisa A. Mosca

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The small rural mountain town of Alberton, MT located 32 miles west of Missoula, MT was the 1996 site of the largest contamination event in railroad history involving a mixture of chemicals. On April 11, 1996 a Montana Rail Link train derailed just west of the town of Alberton, leaking 130,000 pounds of chlorine gas, 17,000 of potassium cresylate (spent oil refinery waste), and 85 dry bulk pounds of sodium chlorate into the Alberton environment. Approximately 1000 people were evacuated from their homes, many for the seventeen day evacuation period that followed. The video documentary project that I embarked on …

Taking Bicycles Seriously : Three Replicable Urban Bicycle Development Projects, Paul Steely White

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Clinical Design For Social Justice Imperatives, Jon C. Dubin

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Risk Assessment, Redevelopment, And Environmental Justice: Evaluating The Brownfields Bargain, John S. Applegate

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Demons And Angels In Hazardous Waste Regulation: Are Justice, Efficiency, And Democracy Reconcilable?, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

The Superfund program is perhaps environmental law's best Rorschach test, in which those who write about the national effort to clean up contaminated sites disclose as much about their own philosophies of justice, democracy, and economic efficiency as about environmental legislation. The ten books reviewed here show deep conflicts among these values. I argue, based on these disparate judgments, that many of the Superfund debates have an almost religious character. The law has been shaped to fit the view that demonic polluters were, and remain, at work. The law also reflects a sense of higher duty to future generations – …

Solid Waste Management And The Need For Effective Public Participation, Catherine A. Solheim, Charles E. Faupel, Conner Bailey

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Recent changes in technical requirements for landfill design, mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, have led to closing the majority of solid waste landfills in the United States. Efforts to site new landfills have elicited widespread opposition. Based on eight case studies in Alabama, we identify three themes behind this opposition: threats to quality of life, potentially harmful economic impacts, and frustration over representational issues in the process involved in selecting the proposed solid waste facility. These concerns mirror much of the literature on public opposition to landfills and other facilities which pose similar threats to the environment and …

The Weekly Challenger, December 6, 1997, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 6, 1997, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Environmental Justice: Bridging The Gap Between Environmental Laws And "Justice" , Alice Kaswan

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Catholic Campus Ministers Need To Find Ways To Help College Students Face Moral Decisions

News Releases

News release announces that the consciences of young adults will continue to be formed by a consumer-producer society if Catholic campus ministers don't find ways to help college students make more decisions.

November 12th 1997, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

No abstract provided.

Values, Affect And Risk Perception, Kurt Neuwirth, Sharon Dunwoody, Robert J. Griffin

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Three pilot studies provided data exploring the roles of values, threats to these selfsame values and emotions in the perception of risk. Results indicate that judgements about risk are associated with a wide variety of values and perceived threats to values. The findings also revealed that the negative emotions such as sadness, worry, anger, disgust, helplessness and uncertainty were significantly related to risk perception. The authors' discussion advances the view that the range of topics considered appropriate to risk communication can be extended to the area of public opinion and rhetorical studies.

Vcu Voice (1997-10-13)

VCU Voice, 1988-1998

VCU Today, the University’s first official administrative organ, began as a somewhat irregular monthly publication but moved to a bi-weekly newspaper format in the 1980s. The newspaper changed its name to VCU Voice in 1988 and ten years later it appeared under the title UniverCity News. As it neared the end of its run as a physical newspaper, the publication became simply VCU News. These four publications were essentially the same periodical published under different titles by the Office of University Relations. VCU News appeared online for the first time in 2002.

Mustang Daily, October 7, 1997

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 41, Fall Issue, Aug. 1997, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

No abstract provided.

The Opinion - Volume 43, No. 1, Fall 1997, William Mitchell College Of Law

The Opinion

Selected Table of Contents

• Emotional Distress: WMCL Law Students - and Its Impact on their Learning / Wagner, Richard
• Government Demands Change Policy / Gerlach, Charles S.
• Dean Haynsworth recommends Granting MIlitary Access in Memo to Faculty / Haynsworth, Harry
• It's the Wrong Thing to Do / Nemmers, Katie
• Minnesota Justice Foundation Fall Fundraiser / Samsa, Kathy
• The Law and the Order / Gibbons, Michael
• Know Your Legal Employment Options / Brandt, Patrick
• VITA Goes to San Francisco / Kremer, Andrew

Editorial Board

Gerlach, Charles S.; Botham, Debbie; Conroy, Tom; Gibbons, Michael; Ravnitzky, Mike; Connor, Crystal, Frundt, David; Anderson, Corey

The Docket, Issue 1, October 1997

The Docket

No abstract provided.