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Aclp - Comments Re Nys Bead Initial Proposal Volume 2 - December 2023, New York Law School Dec 2023

Aclp - Comments Re Nys Bead Initial Proposal Volume 2 - December 2023, New York Law School

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Aclp - State Broadband Profile - New York (October 2023), New York Law School Oct 2023

Aclp - State Broadband Profile - New York (October 2023), New York Law School

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Judicial Resistance To New York's 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms, Angelo Petrigh Jan 2023

Judicial Resistance To New York's 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms, Angelo Petrigh

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Scholars have examined judiciaries as organizations with their own culture and considered how this organizational culture can form a significant impediment to the implementation of reforms.22 There is a strong connection between judicial culture and a reform’s ability to accomplish its stated goals. Some go so far as to state that most reforms will fail because of the difficulty in altering judicial culture.23 These studies sometimes focus on legislators misunderstanding the actual effects of legislation when it was drafted, or on the failure to account for particularities in a law’s implementation by undervaluing the fragmentation, adversarial nature, and …


New York's Green Amendment: The First Decisions, Michael B. Gerrard, Edward Mctiernan Jan 2023

New York's Green Amendment: The First Decisions, Michael B. Gerrard, Edward Mctiernan

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On Nov. 2, 2021, the voters of New York by a margin of more than 2-1 approved an environmental rights amendment to the Bill of Rights in the New York State Constitution. Article I Section 19 reads in its entirety: “Environmental Rights. Each person shall have a right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment.” In the little more than a year since then, one of the great questions in New York environmental law has been — what does this mean? It looks significant, but just how much? That is left to the courts to decide. We now …