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Rental Home Sweet Home: The Disparate Impact Solution For Renters Evicted From Residential Foreclosures, David Lurie Dec 2016

Rental Home Sweet Home: The Disparate Impact Solution For Renters Evicted From Residential Foreclosures, David Lurie

Northwestern University Law Review

At the end of the last decade, a drastic spike in residential foreclosures brought unprecedented attention to the damage that mass foreclosure often brings to primarily low-income, minority–majority communities. Much of this attention—in both the media and in the legal arena—has been devoted to homeowners disadvantaged by predatory loans and other unsavory practices. However, a recent body of scholarship has shown that the brunt of mass foreclosure often falls on renters, who often have little or no procedural protection from speedy and unexpected eviction from their homes, regardless of lease status or tenure. This Note argues that the Supreme Court’s …


Reforming School Discipline, Derek W. Black Dec 2016

Reforming School Discipline, Derek W. Black

Northwestern University Law Review

Public schools suspend millions of students each year, but less than ten percent of suspensions are for serious misbehavior. School leaders argue that these suspensions ensure an orderly educational environment for those students who remain. Social science demonstrates the opposite. The practice of regularly suspending students negatively affects misbehaving students as well as innocent bystanders. All things being equal, schools that manage student behavior through means other than suspension produce the highest achieving students. In this respect, the quality of education a school provides is closely connected to its discipline policies.

Reformers have largely overlooked the connection between discipline and …


A "Notorious Litigant" And "Frequenter Of Jails": Martin Luther King, Jr., His Lawyers, And The Legal System, Leonard S. Rubinowitz, Michelle Shaw, Michal Crowder Nov 2016

A "Notorious Litigant" And "Frequenter Of Jails": Martin Luther King, Jr., His Lawyers, And The Legal System, Leonard S. Rubinowitz, Michelle Shaw, Michal Crowder

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

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Welcome And Session I: Overview Of Martin Luther King's Career, Kimberly Seymour, Leonard Rubinowitz, Aldon Morris Nov 2016

Welcome And Session I: Overview Of Martin Luther King's Career, Kimberly Seymour, Leonard Rubinowitz, Aldon Morris

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

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Session Ii: Remarks On Martin Luther King's Lawyers, Clayborne Carson Nov 2016

Session Ii: Remarks On Martin Luther King's Lawyers, Clayborne Carson

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

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Session Iii: A Conversation About Fred Gray: Rosa Parks' Lawyer And Dr. King's First Lawyer, Darlene Clark Hine, Jonathan L. Entin, Leonard Rubinowitz Nov 2016

Session Iii: A Conversation About Fred Gray: Rosa Parks' Lawyer And Dr. King's First Lawyer, Darlene Clark Hine, Jonathan L. Entin, Leonard Rubinowitz

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Session Iv: A Conversation With Judge Horace Ward: Dr. King's Lawyer In Georgia, Destiny Peery, Judge Horace Ward Nov 2016

Session Iv: A Conversation With Judge Horace Ward: Dr. King's Lawyer In Georgia, Destiny Peery, Judge Horace Ward

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

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Session V: A Conversation With Gil Cornfield And Gil Feldman, Cornfield And Feldman; Lawyers For The Chicago Freedom Movement, 1965-1966, Bernardine Dohrn, Gilbert A. Cornfield, Gilbert Feldman Nov 2016

Session V: A Conversation With Gil Cornfield And Gil Feldman, Cornfield And Feldman; Lawyers For The Chicago Freedom Movement, 1965-1966, Bernardine Dohrn, Gilbert A. Cornfield, Gilbert Feldman

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Session Vi: W.J. Michael Cody; Burch, Porter & Johnson (Memphis): Dr. King's Lawyer In Memphis (1968), W.J. Michael Cody Nov 2016

Session Vi: W.J. Michael Cody; Burch, Porter & Johnson (Memphis): Dr. King's Lawyer In Memphis (1968), W.J. Michael Cody

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Session Vii: Concluding Keynote: A Conversation With Dr. Clarence B. Jones, Clayborne Carson, Dr. Clarence B. Jones Nov 2016

Session Vii: Concluding Keynote: A Conversation With Dr. Clarence B. Jones, Clayborne Carson, Dr. Clarence B. Jones

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


A Free Speech Response To The Gay Rights/Religious Liberty Conflict, Andrew Koppelman Oct 2016

A Free Speech Response To The Gay Rights/Religious Liberty Conflict, Andrew Koppelman

Northwestern University Law Review

The most sensible reconciliation of the tension between religious liberty and public accommodations law, in the recent cases involving merchants with religious objections to same-sex marriage, would permit business owners to present their views to the world, but forbid them either to threaten to discriminate or to treat any individual customer worse than others. Even if such businesses have no statutory right to refuse to facilitate ceremonies they regard as immoral, they are unlikely to be asked to participate in those ceremonies. This solution may, however, be forbidden by the law of hostile environment harassment. That raises a severe free …


War By Legislation: The Constitutionality Of Congressional Regulation Of Detentions In Armed Conflicts, Christopher M. Ford Oct 2016

War By Legislation: The Constitutionality Of Congressional Regulation Of Detentions In Armed Conflicts, Christopher M. Ford

Northwestern University Law Review

In this essay, Ford considers provisions of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which place restrictions on the disposition of detainees held in Guantánamo Bay. These provisions raise substantial separation of powers issues regarding the ability of Congress to restrict detention operations of the Executive. These restrictions, and similar restrictions found in earlier NDAAs, specifically implicate the Executive's powers in foreign affairs and as Commander in Chief. Ford concludes that, with the exception of a similar provision found in the 2013 NDAA, the restrictions are constitutional.


Opinions I Should Have Written, Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.) Feb 2016

Opinions I Should Have Written, Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.)

Northwestern University Law Review

In 1991, the Chicago law firm of Pope & John Ltd. established a lecture series at Northwestern University School of Law. The Pope & John Lecture on Professionalism focuses on the many dimensions of a lawyer’s professional responsibility, including legal ethics, public service, professional civility, pro bono representation, and standards of conduct. The Northwestern University Law Review is pleased to present the November 12, 2014 Pope & John Lecture by Judge Nancy Gertner.