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Bringing Small Business Development To Urban Neighborhoods, Robert E. Suggs
Bringing Small Business Development To Urban Neighborhoods, Robert E. Suggs
Faculty Scholarship
This article describes a race-neutral policy proposal designed to increase business formation and success rates for young urban African Americans. The proposal suggests using local governments' taxing authority, in a manner analogous to tax increment financing, to create financial incentives for successful small business owners to employ, and then mentor and train as business owners, young urban entrepreneurs from deteriorating neighborhoods. The amount of financial incentive varies directly with financial success of protégés and requires the transfer of some of the mentor’s social (reputational) capital to the protégé. Business activity has created wealth and economic mobility for other ethnic groups, …
Accommodating Equality In The Unionized Workplace, Katherine Swinton
Accommodating Equality In The Unionized Workplace, Katherine Swinton
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article explores the appropriate relationship between human rights and collective bargaining laws through an examination of the Supreme Court of Canada's jurisprudence on the duty to accommodate. While collective bargaining can be an important force to promote equality for disadvantaged groups, resistance to changing the terms of collective agreements to accommodate those groups can arise, especially when other employees' seniority rights are affected. The emerging jurisprudence suggests that seniority rights will be respected in many situations, especially in layoffs, but the article outlines circumstances in which accommodation will be necessary to vindicate equality rights.
Foreword: Civil Rights In 1995, Barry Sullivan
Foreword: Civil Rights In 1995, Barry Sullivan
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Civil Rights: A Common And Continuing Struggle, Deval Patrick
Civil Rights: A Common And Continuing Struggle, Deval Patrick
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Liberating The Thirteenth Amendment, Douglas L. Colbert
Liberating The Thirteenth Amendment, Douglas L. Colbert
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Affirming The Thirteenth Amendment, Douglas L. Colbert
Affirming The Thirteenth Amendment, Douglas L. Colbert
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Lawyers And Social Justice, Michael E. Tigar
Lawyers And Social Justice, Michael E. Tigar
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Price Of Landlord's "Free" Exercise Of Religion: Tenant's Rights To Discrimination-Free Housing And Privacy, Maureen E. Markey
The Price Of Landlord's "Free" Exercise Of Religion: Tenant's Rights To Discrimination-Free Housing And Privacy, Maureen E. Markey
Fordham Urban Law Journal
No precedent from the United States Supreme Court or other jurisprudence supports an individual, court-ordered free exerciseexemption for a landlord who violates the antidiscrimination laws while engaged in the business of rental housing. The fair housing laws are designed specifically to protect tenants from discrimination based on a landlord's personal biases. Although neither courts nor legislatures can dictate the morals of the marketplace, neither should they condone discriminatory acts that are clothed in the respectable shroud of the free exercise of religion. An exemption based not upon the landlord's own conduct, but on the landlord's disapproval of the presumed conduct …
Federal Enforcement Of Civil Rights During The First Reconstruction, Robert J. Kaczorowski
Federal Enforcement Of Civil Rights During The First Reconstruction, Robert J. Kaczorowski
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This essay recounts the heroic efforts of federal legal officers and judges to enforce citizens' rights during the 1870s. Part I sets forth the historical events giving rise to the enforcement effort of the Grant Administration. Part II details the problems which the federal executive branch faced when it aggressively prosecuted civil rights violations. Part III details the problems which the federal judiciary faced in administering the civil rights prosecutions brought by the executive branch. Part IV details the national political problems that eventually ended effective enforcement of federal civil rights laws. This Essay concludes that, notwithstanding the problems faced …
Eliminating Indian Stereotypes From American Society: Causes And Legal And Societal Solutions, Kim Chandler Johnson, John Terrence Eck
Eliminating Indian Stereotypes From American Society: Causes And Legal And Societal Solutions, Kim Chandler Johnson, John Terrence Eck
American Indian Law Review
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Integrating The "Underclass": Confronting America's Enduring Apartheid, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
Integrating The "Underclass": Confronting America's Enduring Apartheid, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
Faculty Scholarship
Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton's American Apartheid argues that housing integration has inappropriately disappeared from the national agenda and is critical to remedying the problems of the so-called "underclass." Reviewer Olati Johnson praises the authors' refusal to dichotomize race and class and the roles both play in creating and maintaining housing segregation. However, she argues, Massey and Denton fail to examine critically either the concept of the underclass or the integration ideology they espouse. Specifically, she contends, the authors fail to confront the limits of integration strategies in providing affordable housing or combating the problem of tokenism. Massey and Denton …