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Defending The Historic Preservation Tax Credit, Lauren K. Shores Jan 2012

Defending The Historic Preservation Tax Credit, Lauren K. Shores

Missouri Law Review

Part II of this Comment discusses Missouri's historic preservation tax credit, and supplementing the discussion is some background on the federal rehabilitation tax credit. Part III explains how an historic preservation tax credit statute can be structured and outlines the advantages and disadvantages of these structural aspects. In addition, it discusses how historic preservation tax credits can be used as a redevelopment tool and the economic impact that these credits have had in Missouri. Part III of this Comment will review the recommendations made by the Tax Credit Commission appointed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. Finally, in Part IV, this …

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Landscape Fairness: Removing Discrimination From The Built Environment, Stephen Clowney Dec 2011

Landscape Fairness: Removing Discrimination From The Built Environment, Stephen Clowney

Stephen Clowney

At its core, this Article argues that the everyday landscape is one of the most overlooked instruments of modern race-making. Drawing on evidence from geography and sociology, the paper begins by demonstrating that the built environment inscribes selective and misleading versions of the past in solid, material forms. These narratives — told through street renamings, parks, monuments, and buildings — ultimately marginalize African-American communities and transmit ideas about racial power across generations.  

After demonstrating that the landscape remains the agar upon which racial hierarchies replicate themselves, the Article then pivots and examines current efforts to rid the built environment of …

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Foreword: Global Justice, History And Law: Between Fela's Teachers Teaching "Nonsense" And Bob Marley's "Small Axe" For A Big Tree, Ernesto A. Hernandez-Lopez Dec 2011

Foreword: Global Justice, History And Law: Between Fela's Teachers Teaching "Nonsense" And Bob Marley's "Small Axe" For A Big Tree, Ernesto A. Hernandez-Lopez

Ernesto A. Hernandez

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Fair Housing At 30: Where We Are, Where We Are Going, Tim Iglesias, Susan Saylor Dec 2011

Fair Housing At 30: Where We Are, Where We Are Going, Tim Iglesias, Susan Saylor

Tim Iglesias

California has long been a leader in anti-discrimination law including in housing. Thirty years after the founding of the California Real Property Journal, this article asks: How effective have the fair housing laws been in achieving their twin goals of ending housing discrimination and promoting community integration? Much progress has been made during this time, but stubborn patterns of bias and segregation persist. At the same time, our laws have expanded to encompass more people and more situations, making the goalpost more distant and elusive. This article (1) describes at how fair housing laws have changed since the first issue …

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Women's Legal History Symposium Introduction: Making History, Felice J. Batlan Dec 2011

Women's Legal History Symposium Introduction: Making History, Felice J. Batlan

Felice J Batlan

This essay introduces the Chicago-Kent Symposium on Women's Legal History: A Global Perspective. It seeks to situate the field of women's legal history and to explore what it means to begin writing a transnational women's history which transcends and at times disrupts the nation state. In doing so, it sets forth some of the fundamental premises of women's legal history and points to new ways of writing such histories.

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