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Fee Simple Failures: Rural Landscapes And Race, Jessica A. Shoemaker
Fee Simple Failures: Rural Landscapes And Race, Jessica A. Shoemaker
Michigan Law Review
Property law’s roots are rural. America pursued an early agrarian vision that understood real property rights as instrumental to achieving a country of free, engaged citizens who cared for their communities and stewarded their physical place in it. But we have drifted far from this ideal. Today, American agriculture is industrialized, and rural communities are in decline. The fee simple ownership form has failed every agrarian objective but one: the maintenance of white landownership. For it was also embedded in the original American experiment that land ownership would be racialized for the benefit of its white citizens, through acts of …
Utilizing Michigan Brownfield Policies To Incentivize Community-Based Urban Agriculture In Detroit, Nicholas Leonard
Utilizing Michigan Brownfield Policies To Incentivize Community-Based Urban Agriculture In Detroit, Nicholas Leonard
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
As residents have increasingly moved from urban centers to suburbs, several cities have not been able to create effective solutions to the problems that such population loss has presented. Abandoned properties have proven to be the primary problem, and nowhere is that problem more pronounced than in Detroit. Urban agriculture has been widely embraced on a grassroots level as a potential solution to the pervasive problems that abandoned properties present and that cities have been unable to solve. While urban agriculture networks have largely arisen outside of municipal control, several cities are beginning to recognize urban agriculture as a potential …
Food Miles: Environmental Protection Or Veiled Protectionism?, Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Andrew D. Mitchell
Food Miles: Environmental Protection Or Veiled Protectionism?, Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Andrew D. Mitchell
Michigan Journal of International Law
Eat local. Such a small phrase yet such a loaded proposition. Buying food from nearby sources has become a popular objective. This aim is associated with helping farmers in one’s country or region; observing the seasonality of one’s location; eating fresher foods; striving for food security; and protecting the environment. One of the unmistakable messages of the “locavore” movement is that importing food—particularly food that comes from far away—causes environmental harm. The theory is that transporting food long distances results in the release of high levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere and is thus a dangerous contributor to …
Investing In Cannabis: Inconsistent Government Regulation And Constraints On Capital, Adrian A. Ohmer
Investing In Cannabis: Inconsistent Government Regulation And Constraints On Capital, Adrian A. Ohmer
Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
This note’s focus is on the future of investing in the growing legalized cannabis industry. In Part II, it will provide a brief history of federal and state regulation of cannabis. Part III will discuss the current role of the federal government in regulating the cannabis industry. Part IV will explore the current avenues of access to capital for the cannabis industry. Lastly, Part V will provide suggestions for the federal government and state governments to reduce investment risk that exists in the cannabis industry.
Parsons, Penn, Raup: Land Tenure, John C. Payne
Parsons, Penn, Raup: Land Tenure, John C. Payne
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Land Tenure. Edited by Kenneth H. Parsons, Raymond J. Penn and Philip M. Raup.
Contracts-Impossibility-Effect Of Crop Failure On Middleman's Contract, John C. Walker
Contracts-Impossibility-Effect Of Crop Failure On Middleman's Contract, John C. Walker
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, a produce dealer, offered to sell to plaintiff a specified quantity of Texas "New Crop U.S. 1 blackeye peas." When the original offer was made on June 13, 1947, plaintiff asked how defendant could be sure the peas would be ''No. 1.'' Defendant replied that because the locality of Dilley, Texas, had been unusually dry, the pea crop would be sold as dry ''blackeyes;" defendant also stated that he had already made a contract to purchase 7,000 bags of these "blackeyes" from a certain canning company. On June 16 the contract for 800 bags of peas was consummated, delivery …