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Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Communities: Louisiana Wastewater Infrastructure Recovery, Beau James Brock, Peggy Hatch, Vladimir Alexander Appeaning Ph.D. Dec 2009

Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Communities: Louisiana Wastewater Infrastructure Recovery, Beau James Brock, Peggy Hatch, Vladimir Alexander Appeaning Ph.D.

Beau James Brock

This article discusses how the Louisiana DEQ accepted the moral test of government, and after laying a foundation for success, was able to implement its own pragmatic populist policy for infrastructure recovery by establishing its own model for community sustainability and enabling the state to answer the call for social justice through direct action for citizens.

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Ldeq Executive Philosophy Under Secretary Hal Leggett: Team Building Politics Vs. Policy, Beau James Brock Jun 2009

Ldeq Executive Philosophy Under Secretary Hal Leggett: Team Building Politics Vs. Policy, Beau James Brock

Beau James Brock

A powerpoint overview of the LDEQ Leggett Adminstration's policy agenda and its mission to overcome inherent political bureaucracy.

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Social Movements And Judging: An Essay On Institutional Reform Litigation And Desegregation In Dallas, Texas, Darren Hutchinson Dec 2008

Social Movements And Judging: An Essay On Institutional Reform Litigation And Desegregation In Dallas, Texas, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

No abstract provided.

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Emissions Reduction Tax Credit Policy Initiative: Leadership From A Round Table, Beau James Brock Dec 2008

Emissions Reduction Tax Credit Policy Initiative: Leadership From A Round Table, Beau James Brock

Beau James Brock

A power point presentation of a pro-active solution to emissions reduction for our state. It is a result-oriented incentivized emission reduction program.

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Looking Off The Ball: Constitutional Law And American Politics, Mark A. Graber Jul 2008

Looking Off The Ball: Constitutional Law And American Politics, Mark A. Graber

Mark Graber

“Looking Off the Ball” details how and why constitutional law influences both judicial and public decision making. Treating justices as free to express their partisan commitments may seem to explain Bush v. Gore*, but not the judicial failure to intervene in the other numerous presidential elections in which the candidate favored by most members of the Supreme Court lost. Constitutional norms and standards generate legal agreements among persons who dispute the underlying merits of particular policies under constitutional attack. The norms and standards explain constitutional criticism, why only a small proportion of the political questions that occupy Americans are normally …

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Gunneflo - Demokrati Och Lagprövning: Om Rättfärdigandet Av En Positiv Respektive Negativ Inställning Till Lagprövning [Democracy And Judicial Review: On The Justicfication Of A Positive And A Negative Attitude To Judicial Review In A Democracy], Markus Gunneflo Dec 2007

Gunneflo - Demokrati Och Lagprövning: Om Rättfärdigandet Av En Positiv Respektive Negativ Inställning Till Lagprövning [Democracy And Judicial Review: On The Justicfication Of A Positive And A Negative Attitude To Judicial Review In A Democracy], Markus Gunneflo

Markus Gunneflo

This article focuses on the justification of a positive and a negative attitude respectively towards judicial review in a democracy. The analysis is performed by analyzing texts by four American theorists theorists with different opinions on the subject: Robert Dahl, Jeremy Waldron, Erwin Chemerinsky and Ronald Dworkin. The study shows that there are significant disagreements concerning democratic values between those who take a positive and those who take a negative attitude to judicial review inter alia on the understanding of democracy in terms of process or substance, rule by the broad mass of the people or rule by an elite, …

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Majority Politics And Race Based Remedies, Darren Hutchinson Dec 2006

Majority Politics And Race Based Remedies, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

No abstract provided.

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Identity Crisis: Intersectionality, Multidimensionality, And The Development Of An Adequate Theory Of Subordination, Darren Hutchinson Dec 2000

Identity Crisis: Intersectionality, Multidimensionality, And The Development Of An Adequate Theory Of Subordination, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

No abstract provided.

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Ignoring The Sexualization Of Race: Heteronormativity, Critical Race Theory And Anti-Racist Politics, Darren Hutchinson Dec 1998

Ignoring The Sexualization Of Race: Heteronormativity, Critical Race Theory And Anti-Racist Politics, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

No abstract provided.

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Gay Rights For Gay Whites: Race, Sexual Identity, And Equal Protection Discourse, Darren Hutchinson Dec 1998

Gay Rights For Gay Whites: Race, Sexual Identity, And Equal Protection Discourse, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

No abstract provided.

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Out Yet Unseen: A Racial Critique Of Gay And Lesbian Legal Theory And Political Discourse, Darren Hutchinson Dec 1996

Out Yet Unseen: A Racial Critique Of Gay And Lesbian Legal Theory And Political Discourse, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

Article employs Critical Race Theory to analyze arguments made by movements for LGBT equality and in related legal theory. Article encourages scholars and advocates to utilize more multidimensional models of social justice that do not rest on the necessary compartmentalization of race, sexual orientation, class, and other identity markers.

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Beyond The Rhetoric Of Dirty Laundry: Examining The Value Of Internal Criticism Within Progressive Social Movements And Oppressed Communities, Darren Hutchinson Dec 1989

Beyond The Rhetoric Of Dirty Laundry: Examining The Value Of Internal Criticism Within Progressive Social Movements And Oppressed Communities, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

No abstract provided.

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