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Anti-Exclusionary Zoning In Pennsylvania: A Weapon For Developers, A Loss For Low-Income Pennsylvanians, Katrin Rowan

Katrin Rowan

No abstract provided.

Social Theory And Judicial Choice: Damages And Federal Statutes, Janet S. Lindgren

Janet Lindgren

No abstract provided.

Confronting Judicial Values: Rewriting The Law Of Work In A Common Law System, James Atleson

James B. Atleson

No abstract provided.

Religious Human Rights In Global Perspective, Isabel Marcus

Isabel Marcus

Book review of Johan van der Vyver & John Witte, Jr.'s Religious human Rights in Global Perspective

Feminist Discourse, Moral Values, And The Law—A Conversation, Ellen C. Dubois, Mary C. Dunlap, Carol J. Gilligan, Catharine A. Mackinnon, Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow, Isabel Marcus, Paul J. Spiegelman

Isabel Marcus

No abstract provided.

Introduction: The First Amendment, Redeveloped, George Kannar

George Kannar

No abstract provided.

Federalizing Death, George Kannar

George Kannar

No abstract provided.

Residential Property Assessments In The City Of Buffalo: A Study Of The Use Of Administrative Discretion, George M. Hezel

George Hezel

No abstract provided.

Building A Community Base For Housing Development In The 1990s: A Modest Proposal For Buffalo, New York, George M. Hezel

George Hezel

No abstract provided.

In Memoriam: The Intellectual Legacy Of Lon Fuller, Alfred S. Konefsky, Elizabeth B. Mensch, John Henry Schlegel

Elizabeth Mensch

No abstract provided.

Silencing The Guns In Haiti, Elizabeth Mensch

Elizabeth Mensch

Book review of Irwin Stotzky's Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy

The Public-Private Distinction In American Law And Life, Alan Freeman, Elizabeth Mensch

Elizabeth Mensch

No abstract provided.

When Caring Is Work: Home, Health, And The Invisible Workforce: Introduction, Dianne Avery, Martha T. Mccluskey

Dianne Avery

This essay introduces the SUNY Buffalo Law School 2012 James McCormick Mitchell Lecture. The Lecture featured distinguished scholars Hendrik Hartog, Jennifer Klein, and Peggie R. Smith, who each contributed an essay to this volume. These three scholars give a richly detailed picture of home caretakers' struggles to gain visibility and support for their important work. Legal rulings and policy choices have made care workers distinctly vulnerable, treating care services as an expression of love rather than contract (as Hartog describes), or as social rehabilitation for marginal citizens rather than as skilled health care provision (as Klein explains), or as informal …

James B. Atleson And The World Of Labor Law Scholarship, Dianne Avery, Alfred S. Konefsky

Dianne Avery

No abstract provided.

Law Students With Disabilities: Removing Barriers In The Law School Community, David M. Engel, Alfred S. Konefsky

David M. Engel

No abstract provided.

Reading Quicksilver: A Response To Pierre D'Argent, David A. Westbrook

David A. Westbrook

No abstract provided.

Schall V. Martin: Preventive Detention And Dangerousness Through The Looking Glass, Charles Patrick Ewing

Charles P. Ewing

No abstract provided.

Who Gets In? The Quest For Diversity After Grutter, Athena D. Mutua, Sheldon Zedeck, Frank H. Wu, Charles E. Daye, Margaret E. Montoya, David L. Chambers

Athena D. Mutua

On March 8, 2004, the University at Buffalo Law School hosted its annual Mitchell Lecture,1 a panel discussion entitled, "Who Gets In? The Quest for Diversity After Grutter." The Mitchell Committee decided to focus this year's lecture on innovative proposals to ensure diversity in law school admissions in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger, which confirmed that race and ethnicity could be taken into consideration in admission decisions for diversity purposes. Noting that much of the debate about Grutter thus far has emphasized the decision's constitutionality or its implications for affirmative action, the Committee sought to …

Students In A Menu Of Degrees Providing Context For Understanding And Learning The Transactional Attorney's Role, 20 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 627 (2019), Celeste M. Hammond

Celeste M. Hammond

No abstract provided.

Legal Information Institutes (Llls) - Free Legal Stuff, Yemisi Dina

Yemisi Dina

Multi-disciplinary and comparative approach to legal studies implies that research should go outside the conventional research sources and consult a variety of options. Open access to legal information is made possible by legal information institutes worldwide. In the early 1990s, the Australian Legal Information Institute (AustiLII) initiated this unique medium of disseminating free legal information.

Access To Digital Legal Information: Focus On The English-Speaking Caribbean Countries, Yemisi Dina

Yemisi Dina

The Internet and various digitization initiatives have opened up immediate access to legal materials such as statutes, bills, law reports etc. through government websites and the Legal Information Institutes. There is a dearth in the legal information that is free and openly accessible for countries in the English-speaking Caribbean even though there has been relative progress in the last ten years. A number of these countries have Freedom of Information or Access to Information legislation which requires that government must make information openly accessible to its citizens. This paper reviews developments and government efforts in providing free and accessible legal …

Law Via The Internet: Report On The Conference, Yemisi Dina

Yemisi Dina

Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York hosted the LVI (Law via the Internet) 2012. The conference also marked the twentieth anniversary of the LIIs (Legal Information Institutes) of the world, which have grown exponentially. The anniversary was not a cake-eating celebration but a two-day deliberation with members of an open access society who have been striving to make legal information freely available on the Internet. Many of the speakers at the sessions shared their experiences from the different projects they have been working on over the past twenty years or more, and the LIIs continue to improve. It was …

Heinonline’S World Constitutions Illustrated In Top 5 Fcil Sources, Yemisi Dina

Yemisi Dina

World Constitutions Illustrated provides access to constitutions of various jurisdictions. There is a current constitution in the original language, one English language translation for each country, and amending laws for each constitution.

The database provides access to constitutional development documents, which is very important and critical, especially when researching smaller economies and jurisdictions. It serves as a one-stop shop for materials that may not necessarily be easily available anywhere else.

Regulating Social Media Use In The Workplace, Yemisi Dina

Yemisi Dina

The advent of social networking sites (SNS) has become a reality of the digital age. These sites are highly interactive, creative and addictive for individuals to exchange personal, professional and social ideas but its use has also been the subject of litigation in the courts lately just like any man made invention. People using these sites have sparked a number of legal challenges that have dramatically changed the world. This raises a number of questions as to whether there are clear guidelines on the use of these tools by employers and employees.

This paper is a case commentary of one …

Book Review: Americanah By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yemisi Dina

Yemisi Dina

Americanah is based on a love story that revolved around 3 continents - Africa, North America, and Europe. The themes of race, gender, and identity feature prominently in this award winning novel. Adichie’s story gives a vivid description of the lives of young teenagers of various ethnic and class structures in military-ruled Nigeria from the late 1970s to the 1990s and the beginning of a democratic government. It subtly describes the different ramifications of corruption and highlights a very degenerative period and the beginning of professional brain drain in the country.

Notable Employee Benefits Articles Of 2018, 163 Tax Notes 1829 (2019), Kathryn J. Kennedy, Melissa Travis

Kathryn J. Kennedy

Kathryn J. Kennedy and Melissa Travis summarize 10 noteworthy law review articles published in 2018.

Maximizing Your Faculty's Scholarly Impact: Techniques To Increase Findability, Caroline L. Osborne, Carol A. Watson, Thomas J. Striepe

Caroline L. Osborne

Solidarity Economy Lawyering, Renee Hatcher

Renee Hatcher

This essay explores lawyering in the solidarity economy movement as an emergent approach to progressive transactional lawyering. The solidarity economy movement is a set of value-driven theories and practices that seeks to transform the global economy into a just economy that centers the needs of people and the planet. While the solidarity economy movement has been established for several decades in other parts of the world, the solidarity economy movement in the United States emerged in 2007. Over the last decade the movement has grown and gained significant momentum, with the rise of solidarity economy organizations and initiatives, as well …

Taxed Out: Illegal Property Tax Assessments And The Epidemic Of Tax Foreclosures In Detroit, Bernadette Atuahene, Christopher Berry

Bernadette Atuahene

Detroit is experiencing historic levels of property tax foreclosure. More than 100,000 properties, or one in four throughout the city, have been foreclosed upon for nonpayment of property taxes since 2011. Simultaneously, there is strong evidence that the City is over assessing homeowners in violation of the Michigan Constitution, calling into question the record number of property tax foreclosures. This Article is the first attempt to measure the impact of unconstitutional tax assessments on property tax foreclosures. Controlling for purchase price, location, and time-of-sale, we show that residential properties with higher assessment ratios sold in Detroit since 2009 were more …

Commonwealth Climate And Law Initiative - Climate Change And Legal Risk, Janis P. Sarra, Cynthia Williams

Cynthia A. Williams

In this presentation, Dr Janis Sarra, Presidential Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law University of British Columbia, outlined the fiduciary obligations of corporate directors and pension fiduciaries as they relate to climate change. Professor Cynthia A. Williams, Osler Chair in Business Law, Osgoode Hall Law School provided an overview of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, highlighted the potential for liability risks in Canada for misleading or inaccurate disclosures relating to climate change, and surveyed the field of current climate-related litigation.