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Book Review, Land Use Regulation And Legal Rhetoric: Broadening The Terms Of Debate, R. S. Radford Jan 1994

Book Review, Land Use Regulation And Legal Rhetoric: Broadening The Terms Of Debate, R. S. Radford

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Dennis Coyle’s new book, Property Rights and the Constitution, is an important addition to the ongoing debate over the constitutional status of private property. Coyle selectively reviews important land use cases decided by the United States Supreme Court and various states in the post-New Deal era. More importantly, Coyle provides an ideological framework that illuminates several key strands in the constitutional jurisprudence of property law. Coyle traces the ebb and flow of competing attitudes toward property rights and regulation in a way that makes sense of the sometimes chaotic body of case law in this field. In the process, he …


A Public Citizens’S Action Manual , Lisa H. Blitman Jan 1974

A Public Citizens’S Action Manual , Lisa H. Blitman

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The book proposes that court action should only be used as a last result and offers alternatives. It encourages the citizen to know the truth about various systems in our government and society and offers the reader information that can be used by the action oriented citizen to improve quality of life. Ross urges citizens to fight and become public interest advocates to seek change. Ralph Nader writes the introduction and explains that institutions of government and business are too large and distinct and that with a little help and interest from citizen-activists, government and businesses can be made ot …


Book Review: Water Wasteland, Angus Macbeth Jan 1972

Book Review: Water Wasteland, Angus Macbeth

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Water Wasteland, reviews federal water pollution control programs of the last fifteen years and provides a useful insight into the decline and fall of American rivers.


Books Reviewed, Stephen M. David, John P. Curley, Mark H. Tuohey Jan 1972

Books Reviewed, Stephen M. David, John P. Curley, Mark H. Tuohey

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Reviews of Why Men Rebel, The Mugging and The police and the Public