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‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Toward A Liberatory Heterodox Halakha, Laynie Laynie Soloman, Russell G. Pearce Jan 2022

‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Toward A Liberatory Heterodox Halakha, Laynie Laynie Soloman, Russell G. Pearce

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The role and function of “halakha” (Jewish law) in Jewish communal life is a divisive issue: while Orthodox Jews tend to embrace Jewish law, non-Orthodox Jews (here deemed “Heterodox”) generally reject Jewish law and halakhic discourse. We will explore the way in which Robert Cover’s work offers an antidote to categorical Heterodox distaste for halakha specifically, and law more broadly, providing a pathway into an articulation of halakha that may speak to Heterodox Jews specifically: one that is driven by creative “jurisgenerative” potential, that is informed by a paideic pluralism, and that is fundamentally democratic in its commitment to being …


Negotiating Status: Pro Bono Partners And Counsels In Large Law Firms, Atinuke O. Adediran Jan 2022

Negotiating Status: Pro Bono Partners And Counsels In Large Law Firms, Atinuke O. Adediran

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Law firm pro bono work provides access to justice to low-income people and other vulnerable populations. The professionals that manage pro bono programs are at the forefront of that process. The limited available research on these professionals do not often distinguish lawyers from other managers or theorize about their status vis-à-vis other law firm lawyers. Yet the status of lawyers who are also managers of pro bono programs influences both their identities and the management and provision of legal services and advocacy. Drawing on original demographic and interview data, this article shows how law firm pro bono partners and counsels …


A World Without Roe: The Constitutional Future Of Unwanted Pregnancy, Julie Suk Jan 2022

A World Without Roe: The Constitutional Future Of Unwanted Pregnancy, Julie Suk

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With the demise of Roe v. Wade, the survival of abortion access in America will depend on new legal paths. In the same moment that Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has constrained access to abortion in the United States, other constitutional democracies have moved in the opposite direction, expanding access to safe, legal, and free abortions. They have done so without reasoning from Roe’s vision of the private zone of unwanted pregnancy. The development of abortion law outside the United States provides critical insights that can inform future efforts to vindicate the constitutional rights of women facing unwanted pregnancies. …


Housing The Decarcerated: Covid-19, Abolition & The Right To Housing, Norrinda Brown Jan 2022

Housing The Decarcerated: Covid-19, Abolition & The Right To Housing, Norrinda Brown

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The coronavirus pandemic revealed the need to advance the right to housing and abolition movements. The need for advancements in both spaces was no more painfully apparent than among the recently decarcerated population. Securing housing for the recently decarcerated is particularly difficult due to the “culture of exclusion” that has long pervaded subsidized housing policy, enabled by a patchwork of federal laws, including the Anti-Drug Abuse Act (ADA) of 1988 and the Supreme Court’s ruling in HUD v. Rucker. The culture of exclusion is arbitrated by local housing authorities and works on three levels: eligibility, enforcement, and set asides. As …


Constraint Without Closeness: A New Picture Of Cooperation, Aditi Bagchi Jan 2022

Constraint Without Closeness: A New Picture Of Cooperation, Aditi Bagchi

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