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Lessons Of The Past And The Humanitarian Outreach Of Poland To Ukrainian Refugees, Karin Mika

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

The reaction of Poland and its people is a refreshing departure from the historic blood rivalries of the past. This is similarly true of both Romania and Hungary; however, it is Poland that has absorbed the majority of Ukrainian refugees and Poland that has the most historically contentious relationship with Ukraine. Poland’s current humanitarian efforts with respect to its Ukrainian neighbors is evidence that some lessons have been learned from the past. Perhaps there is hope that some of the centuries old blood feuding can come to an end and countries can better work toward cooperative relationships in the future.

A Perfectly Empty Gift, Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus

Faculty Scholarship

“Almost citizens.” What does that even mean? It’s like being “kind of pregnant,” isn’t it? In other words, nonsense. Citizenship isn’t an “almost” kind of thing. It’s all or nothing. Unless, I suppose, the word “almost” is used in a simple temporal sense – as in, “Our naturalization ceremony is tomorrow. We’re almost citizens! Yay!” There, the phrase “almost citizens” makes sense. Otherwise not. Right?

Wrong. “Almost citizens,” in a sense as ambiguous as it sounds, is what Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U S Constitution, and Empire is about. “Almost citizens” describes what Puerto Ricans were from 1898, when …

The Battle Of Brandy Creek: How One Black Community Fought Annexation, Tax Revaluation, And Displacement, Mark Dorosin

Journal Publications

The Brandy Creek community is a working class, Black neighborhood located just east of I-95, south of Weldon, North Carolina.' In 2005, this rural neighborhood and its surrounding land were legislatively annexed into the city of Roanoke Rapids as part of a planned economic development project. The decision to pursue legislative annexation allowed city officials to bypass the statutory notice and municipal service requirements of a city-initiated, involuntary annexation. Residents were never informed of Roanoke Rapids' intent to annex the community and had no opportunity to voice their opinions on the issue to town officials. In fact, the community first …

Some Remarks On Self-Defense And Intervention: A Reaction To Reading Law And Civil War In The Modern World, Josef Rohlik

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Russia’S Annexation Of Crimea: The Mills Of International Law Grind Slowly But They Do Grind, Robin Geiss

International Law Studies

In her speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel unwaveringly said: “Europe’s borders are and will remain unalterable.” At the same time, however, most observers agree that Crimea will remain de facto under Russian control. Against this backdrop the article assesses the contemporary and possible future legal status of Crimea. Particular attention is given to the inseparability of the link between Russia’s unlawful use of force and the purported territorial status alteration of Crimea, the concept of remedial secession and Crimea’s current status as an occupied territory.

Emerging Issues: To Be Or Not To Be, That Is The Statehood Question, Alexandra Rickart

University of Baltimore Journal of International Law

The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States lists the four necessary qualifications in order to become a recognized state: a) permanent population; b) defined territory; c) government; and d) capacity to enter into relations with other States.1 However, how does a territory become its own state or part of a new state if it is already a section of another state? There are two different ways this can happen: secession and annexation. While both of these processes are recognized as ways to attain statehood in international law, they are not generally accepted as viable options except in …

Contemporary Practice Of The United States Relating To International Law, Kristina Daugirdas, Julian Davis Mortenson

Articles

In this section: • United States Condemns Russia’s Use of Force in Ukraine and Attempted Annexation of Crimea • In Wake of Espionage Revelations, United States Declines to Reach Comprehensive Intelligence Agreement with Germany • United States Defends United Nations’ Immunity in Haitian Cholera Case • French Bank Pleads Guilty to Criminal Violations of U.S. Sanctions Laws • D.C. Circuit Strikes down Administrative Order Requiring Divestment by Foreign-Owned Corporation • United States Adopts New Land Mine Policy • United States Claims That Russia Has Violated the INF Treaty

Collateral Damage: Protecting Cultural Heritage In Crimea And Eastern Ukraine, Zoe Niesel

Faculty Articles

Since the early spring of 2014, the world has watched Russia utilize military forces to invade and annex territory belonging to Ukraine. These actions are, unsurprisingly, raising concerns in Eastern Europe over the prospect of armed conflict in the region, the political consequences of Russian annexation of Ukrainian territory, and the effect of this conflict on ordinary civilians. But there is another potential cost associated with Russia's actions that should not be overlooked - the loss of Ukrainian cultural heritage. History is replete with examples of the destruction of cultural heritage during periods of instability, from Napoleon's systematic looting of …

How The Voting Rights Act Works: Implementation Of A Civil Rights Policy, 1965-2005, Peyton Mccrary

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Revisiting The Challenginf Landscape Of Self-Determination Within The Context Of Nation's Right To Sovereignty, Dr. Saby Ghoshray

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Academic perspectives on the issue of Self-Determination are in abundance as the International Standards with respect to the Rights of People and their Rights to Self-Determination have taken huge steps in the last two decades.

Losing Ground: Seminole And The Annexation Power Of Municipalities In Oklahoma, Kristen M. O'Connor

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Baltimore Bound: Article Xiii, Section 1, "New Counties," Of The Maryland Constitution And The Baltimore City Annexation Acts Of 1888 And 1918, Michele Lefaivre

Legal History Publications

This paper examines the extension of Baltimore's boundaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century within the legal process which authorized it.

Desire For Community Growth In Northeastern Illinois As Reflected In Annexation Agreements, Kimberly L. Sullivan

Northern Illinois University Law Review

It has been argued that Illinois land use law gives municipalities within the State of Illinois broad discretion in making land use decisions. This being the case, the question becomes whether such latitude actually results in inequitable treatment of landowners across the state. To answer this question, recent annexation agreements from a sample of six Chicago area municipalities were examined to determine the concessions and restrictions different municipalities place on parcels of land being annexed into their communities. While some interesting patterns and relationships existed among the agreements from the sample communities, time analysis showed that the annexation agreements were …

Municipal Annexation In Ohio: Putting An End To The Bitter Battle, Mary Shannon Place

Cleveland State Law Review

Recent decades, marked by steady population growth, have seen the evolution of a distinctly urban nation. The multiplicity of local governments within metropolitan areas has raised serious questions about the efficiency and equity of fragmented government organizations. Critics argue that the existence of multiple local governments in metropolitan areas leads to an inequitable allocation of public goods and services, inefficient patterns of area land use and development, and counterproductive competition for new fiscal resources and territorial autonomy. Moreover, the urbanized landscape poses problems of community leadership. And sadly, municipal annexation in Ohio has fallen far short of its potential to …

Illinois Annexation Agreements--Are We Behind The Times?, Barbara Baran

Northern Illinois University Law Review

Ms. Baran begins her article by discussing the impetus for the Illinois Annexation Agreement Statute. Next, she provides the reader with a thorough analysis of each provision of the statute with particular emphasis on the enforceability of agreements. Ms. Baran notes that uncertainties associated with development make the statute appealing to developers and municipal officials. She believes that the statute provides a sufficient basis for agreements and that it may not be necessary for Illinois to move toward a more specific developer agreement statute. She does, however, promote the position that the statute should be brought up to date and …

Water Development And Acquisition For A Municipal Supply, Tom Griswold

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

18 pages.

Annexation And The Jurisdictional Attack In Indiana: The City Comes To Visit, George T. Mcnaughton

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Municipal Annexation In Georgia: The Contiguity Conundrum, R. Perry Sentell Jr.

Scholarly Works

The Georgia law of municipal annexation possesses a rich history both statutory and decisional. Strangely subdued in this history, however, is the concept of contiguity. Although this term has been stated and defined by the legislature, the concept has historically provoked little controversy, and the courts have stayed away from it with fervor. Recently, this has changed. The purpose here, therefore, is to mark what may well be the origin of a new chapter in the Georgia law of municipal annexation.

Municipal Annexation In Georgia: Nay-Sayers Beward (Plantation Pipe Line Co. V. City Of Bremen), R. Perry Sentell Jr.

Scholarly Works

In the Fall 1967 issue of the Georgia Law Review, there appeared a somewhat ambitious effort to survey the law of municipal annexation in Georgia. That rather stuffy treatment at least served to demonstrate the existence of a history on the subject dating from the beginning of time in this State. It also purported to make one or two daring thrusts at formulating principles then apparently settled and at identifying legal points around which further evolution might be anticipated.

Some apparently believed that these thrusts were more negative than daring and that they reflected an approach which was basically …

A Fresh Look At Kentucky's Stale Annexation Statutes, William G. Kohlhepp

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Annexation And The Law In South Carolina, Edward P. Blanton Jr., Allen Garfield

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Indiana Annexation Act Of 1949

Indiana Law Journal

Recent Cases: Legislation

Annexation - The Requirement That It Must Be "Necessary And Expedient" (Norfolk V. Portsmouth, 1947), Donald H. Sandie

William and Mary Review of Virginia Law

No abstract provided.

Fixtures - Conditional Sales - Effect Of Recording Upon Subsequent Mortgagee Of The Realty, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Two furnaces were sold and installed by plaintiff's assignor on a conditional sale contract that was duly recorded. The vendee then mortgaged the land on which the furnaces were annexed to the defendant. He defaulted on payments under the conditional sales contract and the plaintiff obtained a decree foreclosing the vendee's equity. Defendant filed a petition to have the decree vacated. Held, that as defendant was a subsequent mortgagee without notice the decree should be vacated. Twentieth Century Heating & Ventilating Co. v. Home Owners Loan Corp., 56 Ohio App. 188, 10 N. E. (2d) 229 (1937).

Epithetical Jurisprudence And The Annexation Of Fixtures, Joseph H. Drake

Articles

If we begin with all the facts of a controversy and proceed inductively to determine the rights of the parties litigant, we thus arrive at a jurisprudence of rights, whereas, if we reason deductively from a rule, a definition, or a maxim of law to its application in the facts of our case, we can at best attain only a jurisprudence of rules, which has been so aptly characterized as an epithetical jurisprudence. The subject of fixtures is one in which we have great difficulty in applying the inductive method because the courts have been slower in approaching the subject …