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Remediating Racism For Rent: A Landlord’S Obligation Under The Fha, Mollie Krent
Remediating Racism For Rent: A Landlord’S Obligation Under The Fha, Mollie Krent
Michigan Law Review
The Fair Housing Act (FHA) is an expansive and powerful piece of legislation that furthers equal housing in the United States by ferreting out discrimination in the housing market. While the power of the Act is well recognized by courts, the full contours of the FHA are still to be refined. In particular, it remains unsettled whether and when a landlord can be liable for tenant-on-tenant harassment. This Note argues, first, that the FHA does recognize liability in such a circumstance and, second, that a landlord should be subject to liability for her negligence in such a circumstance. Part I …
No Time For Trumpets: Title Vii, Equality, And The Fin De Sièchle, D. Marvin Jones
No Time For Trumpets: Title Vii, Equality, And The Fin De Sièchle, D. Marvin Jones
Michigan Law Review
My essay seeks to examine the internal architecture of the discursive barrier - the wall - that the Supreme Court has built within the doctrinal framework of Title VII and concomitantly within the discourse of equality. To understand how the Court has erected this discursive wall, we must begin with history. Equality, while historically a vehicle for national identity and contemporaneously for modernist conceptions of justice, is synchronically and diachronically indeterminate. Equality is a deeply sedimented concept with not one objective meaning but successive levels of meaning built up over time. Each of those historic understandings is itself a unity …