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Property Rebels: Reclaiming Abandoned, Bank-Owned Homes For Community Uses, Valerie Schneider Jan 2015

Property Rebels: Reclaiming Abandoned, Bank-Owned Homes For Community Uses, Valerie Schneider

American University Law Review

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Following New Lights: Critical Legal Research Strategies As A Spark For Law Reform In Appalachia, Nicholas F. Stump Jan 2015

Following New Lights: Critical Legal Research Strategies As A Spark For Law Reform In Appalachia, Nicholas F. Stump

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

The nascent “critical legal research” movement applies the constellation of critical theory to the American legal research regime. Work in this discourse has unpacked the means through which commercial print and online legal resources (e.g., Westlaw and Lexis) insidiously channel the efforts of legal researchers, essentially predetermining research outcomes. Although legal research is commonly conceived as a normatively neutral paradigm, such commercial homogenizing agents (paired with traditional methods of legal analysis) in fact reflect and perpetuate society’s dominant interests. As grounded in the existing literature, this Article outlines novel strategies that may together constitute one potential version of a critically …


Destabilizing Property, Ezra Rosser Jan 2015

Destabilizing Property, Ezra Rosser

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

Property theory has entered into uncertain times. Conservative and progressive scholars are, it seems, fiercely contesting everything, from what is at the core of property to what obligations owners owe society. Fundamentally, the debate is about whether property law works. Conservatives believe that property law works. Progressives believe property law could and should work, though it needs to be made more inclusive. While there have been numerous responses to the conservative emphasis on exclusion, this Article begins by addressing a related line of argument, the recent attacks information theorists have made on the bundle of rights conception of property. This …


Political Possibilities Of Reparations, Ezra Rosser Jan 2015

Political Possibilities Of Reparations, Ezra Rosser

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This essay is a brief response to Gregory Alexander's article, published by Law and Social Inquiry, that generally argues against land reparations for past wrongs. This response argues that there are political reasons to leave land reparations on the table, focusing on the claims of Native American tribes.