| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Tom Allen |
COMPENSATION FOR PROPERTY UNDER THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS |
28 Michigan Journal of International Law 287 (Winter 2007) |
I. Introduction. 287 II. The Rise of the Balancing Principle. 291 A. P1-1 as a Guarantee of the Rule of Law. 292 B. The Rejection of the Rule-of-Law Model and the Adoption of the Integrated Theory. 294 1. The Source of the Fair Balance Test. 294 2. Compensation and the Fair Balance. 298 C. Comparative Legal Method and Compensation. 301 III. The... |
2007 |
| D. Trey Jordan |
CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES VERSUS THE FAIR HOUSING ACT: INDEPENDENT LIVING AND INVOLUNTARY TRANSFER |
9 Marquette Elder's Advisor 205 (Fall 2007) |
America's population is aging. The Baby Boomers are beginning to reach retirement age. The number and percentage of seniors is dramatically increasing, and the numbers will explode in 2011, as the Baby Boomers begin to reach age sixty-five. With an aging population, issues including Social Security, health care, Medicaid, and housing must be... |
2007 |
| Jeffrey M. Sussman |
CYBERSPACE: AN EMERGING SAFE HAVEN FOR HOUSING DISCRIMINATION |
19 Loyola Consumer Law Review 194 (2007) |
By its nature, the Internet facilitates relatively unregulated communication between strangers. In the abstract, many websites are like a newspaper's classified section. They take postings created by individuals and facilitate their availability to third parties. This article looks at whether websites, such as Craigslist , that function as a medium... |
2007 |
| Eric M. Carlson |
DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IN LONG-TERM CARE: USING THE FAIR HOUSING ACT TO PREVENT ILLEGAL SCREENING IN ADMISSIONS TO NURSING HOMES AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES |
21 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 363 (2007) |
Before making an admission decision, a nursing home often requires an applicant to disclose a significant portion of her medical records. The applicant likely presumes that the nursing home needs this information to determine if the nursing home can meet her health care needs. This presumption is often wrong. The information is reviewed not by... |
2007 |
| Keith Aoki |
DISTRIBUTIVE AND SYNCRETIC MOTIVES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO COERCION, AGENCY, AND DEVELOPMENT) |
40 U.C. Davis Law Review 717 (March, 2007) |
Introduction. 719 I. Raising the Question of the Distribution of the Benefits and Burdens of Intellectual Property Law. 726 II. Distributive Motives in U.S. Patent Law. 738 A. Race, Agency, and Coercion in Early U.S. Patent Law. 738 B. Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin. 745 III. Distributive Aspects of U.S. Copyright Law. 747 A. History of the World,... |
2007 |
| Marisa Bono |
DON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR: RESTRICTIVE HOUSING ORDINANCES AS THE NEW JIM CROW |
3 Modern American 29 (Summer-Fall, 2007) |
We can, of course, little more than hypothesize how our racial passions first began to overtake us, how humankind's obsession to embrace the similar and despise the different got stuck in our communal psyche .. Jerold M. Packard They're taking our jobs, our homes. There's unemployment partly because of the Hispanics. The lady who took my job is... |
2007 |
| Timothy Overton |
EMPTY LAWS MAKE FOR EMPTY STOMACHS: HOLLOW PUBLIC HOUSING LAWS IN UTAH AND OTHER STATES FORCE THE NATION'S POOR TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ADEQUATE HOUSING AND LIFE'S OTHER NECESSITIES |
21 BYU Journal of Public Law 495 (2007) |
Section 8, the projects, vouchers, rental assistance, affordable housing, the tax credit, low-income housing and moderate-income housing are all words or terms used to describe forms of public housing. Public housing programs are designed to provide housing or housing assistance to persons and families with very low to moderate income, to elderly... |
2007 |
| Kristen M. Ross |
EVICTION, DISCRIMINATION, AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: UNFAIR HOUSING PRACTICES AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS |
18 Hastings Women's Law Journal 249 (Summer 2007) |
Survivors of domestic violence often suffer a wide array of physical and psychological effects. Common physical injuries include lacerations, bruises, broken bones, head injuries, and internal bleeding. Psychological effects such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are also common. Additionally, many survivors face the horror of being... |
2007 |
| Bernadette Atuahene |
FROM REPARATION TO RESTORATION: MOVING BEYOND RESTORING PROPERTY RIGHTS TO RESTORING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC VISIBILITY |
60 SMU Law Review 1419 (Fall 2007) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 1420 II. INVISIBILITY. 1425 A. Property Confiscation Can Remove Individuals and Communities from the Social Contract and Render Them Invisible. 1425 B. Widespread Property Induced Invisibility Can Lead to Increased Enforcement Costs and Political and Economic Instability. 1440 III. RESTORATION. 1444 A. The Importance and Limits of... |
2007 |
| Robert W. Seifert |
HOME SICK: HOW MEDICAL DEBT UNDERMINES HOUSING SECURITY |
51 Saint Louis University Law Journal 325 (Winter 2007) |
Anyone can get health care if they really need it. This is a typical response to the reality of growing numbers of uninsured and inadequately insured people in the United States. Americans believe that a safety net of emergency rooms, free clinics, and other facilities are available to provide care to those without the means to pay for it, so... |
2007 |
| Rob Wilcox |
HOUSING IN POST-KATRINA NEW ORLEANS: LEGAL RIGHTS AND RECOURSES FOR DISPLACED AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESIDENTS |
2 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 105 (Summer, 2007) |
Hurricane Katrina dramatically changed the lives of more than one million Americans, evoking passion and tension around the nation. Katrina's devastating impact has left hundreds of thousands of Americans without adequate shelter and without a guaranteed prospect for shelter. Rebuilding New Orleans will take years, and a pressing question is for... |
2007 |
| John Kimble |
INSURING INEQUALITY: THE ROLE OF THE FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION IN THE URBAN GHETTOIZATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS |
32 Law and Social Inquiry 399 (Spring, 2007) |
A reexamination of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) documents reveals that the agency played a more direct role in the ghettoization of African Americans than previous scholarship has established. The FHA went far beyond merely approving of racial discrimination, and exploring the extent to which it did so is crucial to understanding the... |
2007 |
| Matthew D. Hemmer |
KEEPING YOUR NAME AND IMAGES PRIVATE-HOW EXISTING PROPERTY LAW AND REQUESTS FOR REMOVAL COULD STOP UNAUTHORIZED DISPLAY OF YOUR IDENTITY ONLINE |
34 Northern Kentucky Law Review 723 (2007) |
The modern internet provides users with numerous ways to submit their own content, interact with others, and reach vast audiences without the entry costs that previously limited the scale of low cost communication mediums. Many of these online services that present user submitted materials receive their content anonymously or with little verifiable... |
2007 |
| Lynn M. Clark, M.P.A, J.D., Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology, University of Akron, Ohio |
LANDLORD ATTITUDES TOWARD RENTING TO RELEASED OFFENDERS |
71-JUN Federal Probation 20 (June, 2007) |
THIS STUDY EXPLORES landlords' perspectives toward housing released criminal offenders. Prior research has focused on the barriers offenders face in trying to find employment, housing, life stability, solutions for homelessness, or community reentry programs. Housing is often cited as a hurdle to successful reentry, but little research has been... |
2007 |
| Christopher Serkin |
LOCAL PROPERTY LAW: ADJUSTING THE SCALE OF PROPERTY PROTECTION |
107 Columbia Law Review 883 (May, 2007) |
This Article proposes that issues surrounding the protection of private property should be resolved at the local level, and that local governments should be allowed to select the property protection that they want to offer. Specifically, this Article proposes state legislation to create a mechanism for local precommitments around the most contested... |
2007 |
| Sean Romero |
MASS FORCED EVICTIONS AND THE HUMAN RIGHT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING IN ZIMBABWE |
5 Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 275 (Spring, 2007) |
A formidable problem faces urban populations in developing countries today, as seventy-five percent live[] in informal housing: dwellings which have been constructed without the required permission, without the full title to land . [but] provide shelter to 1.5 billion people, or a quarter of the world's population. Zimbabwe contributes to these... |
2007 |
| Cleveland Ferguson III |
OF POLITICS AND POLICY: CAN THE U.S. MAINTAIN ITS CREDIBILITY ABROAD WHILE IGNORING THE NEEDS OF ITS CHILDREN AT HOME?--REVISITING THE U.N. CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD AS A TRANSNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR LOCAL GOVERNING |
14 Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 191 (Spring 2007) |
Americans from every political persuasion want the president of the United States, as an institution, to set sustainable domestic policy, carry the mantle as leader of the free world, and head the world's only superpower with high credibility and near-boundless international political capital in foreign policy. Much has happened since September 11,... |
2007 |
| Tim Iglesias |
OUR PLURALIST HOUSING ETHICS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AFFORDABILITY |
42 Wake Forest Law Review 511 (Summer 2007) |
Building on recent scholarship, this Article explores the five housing ethics that have historically shaped U.S. housing law and policy: (1) housing as an economic good, (2) housing as home, (3) housing as a human right, (4) housing as providing social order, and (5) housing as one land use in a functional system. The housing ethic framework... |
2007 |
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OVERCOMINING DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING, CREDIT, AND URBAN POLICY |
25 Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal 77 (2006-2007) |
April 7, 2006 9:00 a.m. -- 5:15 p.m. Letro Courtroom Good morning, everyone. On behalf of UB Law School and the Baldy Center on Law and Social Policy and the Buffalo Seminar on Racial Justice, I want to welcome you heartily to the Workshop on Overcoming Racial Discrimination in Housing, Credit and Urban Policy. My name is Carl Nightingale, I'm the... |
2007 |
| Jedediah Purdy |
PROPERTY AND EMPIRE: THE LAW OF IMPERIALISM IN JOHNSON V. M'INTOSH |
75 George Washington Law Review 329 (February, 2007) |
Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Johnson v. M'Intosh, 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.) 543 (1823), has long been a puzzle, both in its doctrinal structure and in long, strange dicta which are both triumphal and elegiac. In this Essay, I show that the opinion becomes newly intelligible when read in the context of the law and theory of colonialism, concerned,... |
2007 |
| John A. Lovett |
PROPERTY AND RADICALLY CHANGED CIRCUMSTANCES |
74 Tennessee Law Review 463 (Summer, 2007) |
Hurricane Katrina has altered the way this nation discusses many important issues-race, environmental protection, and federalism to name just a few. But did Hurricane Katrina change theway people think about fundamental property relationships as well? Many scholars have sought to discern broad political, social, and economic lessons from Katrina,... |
2007 |
| Eduardo Moisés Peñalver , Sonia K. Katyal |
PROPERTY OUTLAWS |
155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1095 (May, 2007) |
Most people do not hold those who intentionally flout property laws in particularly high regard. The overridingly negative view of the property lawbreaker as a wrongdoer comports with the status of property rights within our characteristically individualist, capitalist, political culture. This reflexively dim view of property lawbreakers is also... |
2007 |
| Mark Tushnet |
PROPERTY, CONTRACTS, AND POLITICS |
105 Michigan Law Review 1223 (April, 2007) |
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. By Rebecca J. Scott. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 365. $29.95. Rebecca Scott is a historian, not an economist. Describing how a dispute over a mule's ownership was resolved, Professor Scott reproduces a receipt two claimants left when they took the mule from the... |
2007 |
| Jennifer C. Johnson |
RACE-BASED HOUSING IMPORTUNITIES: THE DISPARATE IMPACT OF REALISTIC GROUP CONFLICT |
8 Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law 97 (Spring 2007) |
At the very least, the freedom that Congress is empowered to secure under the Thirteenth Amendment includes the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, the right to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a free man means at least this much, then the Thirteenth Amendment made a promise the Nation cannot keep.... |
2007 |
| Jonathan Kahn |
RACE-ING PATENTS/PATENTING RACE: AN EMERGING POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN BIOTECHNOLOGY |
92 Iowa Law Review 353 (February, 2007) |
I. Introduction. 355 II. Race, Genes, and Drug Development. 360 III. Producing and Organizing Social Data on Race and Ethnicity: OMB Directive 15. 366 IV. Producing and Organizing Genetic Information: Federally Sponsored Genetic Databases. 368 V. BiDil: Portent of Things to Come. 379 VI. The Rise of Racial Patents. 383 A. Patent Law Basics. 383 B.... |
2007 |
| Tanya D. Marsh , Robert G. Solloway |
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIANA REAL PROPERTY LAW |
40 Indiana Law Review 1067 (2007) |
This Article takes a topical approach to the notable real property cases in the courts of the State of Indiana in this survey period, October 1, 2005, through September 30, 2006, and analyzes noteworthy cases in each of the following areas: restrictive covenants, contracts, landlord/tenant law, governmental action and eminent domain, tax sales,... |
2007 |
| Michael Kagan |
RESTITUTION AS A REMEDY FOR REFUGEE PROPERTY CLAIMS IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT |
19 Florida Journal of International Law 421 (August, 2007) |
Property restitution has posed a significant challenge for international law since the end of the Cold War, particularly as the international community has worked to resolve conflicts that involved substantial population displacement along ethnic lines. Although restitution has deep roots in international law, recent cases of conflict resolution... |
2007 |
| James D. Shanahan |
RETHINKING THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT: ELIMINATING STATUTORY PROTECTIONS OF DISCRIMINATORY HOUSING ADVERTISEMENTS ON THE INTERNET |
60 Federal Communications Law Journal 135 (December, 2007) |
Congress passed the Communications Decency Act (CDA) with the intention of supporting and encouraging the proliferation of information on the Internet. The CDA gives Internet service providers immunity to any cause of action in which they might be treated as publishers of content originating from third parties. A significant goal of this... |
2007 |
| J. H. Huebert , Walter Block |
SPACE ENVIRONMENTALISM, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND THE LAW |
37 University of Memphis Law Review 281 (Winter, 2007) |
I. L2-3,T3Introduction 281. A. Types of Environmentalism. 283 B. What is the Space Environment?. 290 II. L2-3,T3Property Rights and Problems of Space Pollution 292. A. Is Space Pollution even Possible?. 292 B. Air and Water Pollution in Space. 293 C. Other Pollution on the Moon and Celestial Bodies. 295 D. Space: The Ultimate Waste Dump. 296 E.... |
2007 |
| Rachel Kurth |
STRIKING A BALANCE BETWEEN PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND FREE SPEECH ON THE INTERNET: THE FAIR HOUSING ACT VS. THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT |
25 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 805 (2007) |
I. Introduction. 805 II. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 (The Fair Housing Act). 807 A. History of Segregated Housing in America. 807 B. Shelley v. Kraemer. 808 C. Enaction. 812 D. Scope of Protection. 813 E. Why is Integrated Housing So Important?. 814 F. Enforcement. 815 III. The Communications Decency Act of 1996. 818 A. The Internet. 818 B. The... |
2007 |
| Madeline Howard |
SUBSIDIZED HOUSING POLICY: DEFINING THE FAMILY |
22 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 97 (2007) |
Since the Great Depression, the federal government has provided housing for families who are unable to afford market rent. Government-subsidized housing was originally intended to serve traditionally structured families, with a working husband and a wife who labored in the home caring for children. Government housing policies have become more... |
2007 |
| Brian Patrick Larkin |
THE FORTY-YEAR "FIRST STEP": THE FAIR HOUSING ACT AS AN INCOMPLETE TOOL FOR SUBURBAN INTEGRATION |
107 Columbia Law Review 1617 (November, 2007) |
The Fair Housing Act serves as the primary federal statute prohibiting housing discrimination on the basis of race. The legislators who passed the Act in 1968 were motivated in part by desires to quell urban unrest, and to provide middle-class African Americans with the freedom to live within majority-white suburban neighborhoods. The Act, through... |
2007 |
| Carol Necole Brown , Serena M. Williams |
THE HOUSES THAT EMINENT DOMAIN AND HOUSING TAX CREDITS BUILT: IMAGINING A BETTER NEW ORLEANS |
16-SUM Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 377 (Summer, 2007) |
Throughout its history, New Orleans has been largely immune to brilliant and innovative ideas. Indeed, this is one of its principal charms. If you are not a native New Orleanian, ask yourself why you decided to live here and chances are it has something to do with what Ignatius J. Reilly described as New Orleans' stagnation and apathy which I find... |
2007 |
| Carol Necole Brown , Serena M. Williams |
THE HOUSES THAT EMINENT DOMAIN AND HOUSING TAX CREDITS BUILT: IMAGINING A BETTER NEW ORLEANS |
34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 689 (March, 2007) |
Throughout its history, New Orleans has been largely immune to brilliant and innovative ideas. Indeed, this is one of its principal charms. If you are not a native New Orleanian, ask yourself why you decided to live here and chances are it has something to do with what Ignatius J. Reilly described as New Orleans' stagnation and apathy which I find... |
2007 |
| Will Lovell |
THE KELO BLOWBACK: HOW THE NEWLY-ENACTED EMINENT DOMAIN STATUTES AND PAST BLIGHT STATUTES ARE A MAGINOT LINE-DEFENSE MECHANISM FOR ALL NON-AFFLUENT AND MINORITY PROPERTY OWNERS |
68 Ohio State Law Journal 609 (2007) |
Government is instituted to protect property. . . . This being the end of government. ~James Madison The states' reactions to Kelo v. City of New London served as a fierce rebuke of the Supreme Court's broad interpretation of the Fifth Amendment's public use clause. States quickly passed laws and moratoria barring any governmental takings of... |
2007 |
| Carol M. Rose |
THE MORAL SUBJECT OF PROPERTY |
48 William and Mary Law Review 1897 (April, 2007) |
I ain't the woman in red, I ain't the girl next door But if somewhere in the middle's what you're lookin' for I'm that kind of girl .... Matraca Berg/Ronnie Samoset, I'm That Kind of Girl, sung by Patty Loveless on On Down the Line (MCA Records 1990). Utopians do not like private property. In one of the most notorious incidents of the Reformation... |
2007 |
| Stacy E. Seicshnaydre |
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME: IN SEARCH OF A JUST PUBLIC HOUSING POLICY POST-KATRINA |
81 Tulane Law Review 1263 (March, 2007) |
It is tempting to view Hurricane Katrina as the singular force behind the current affordable housing crisis in the greater New Orleans area. But other enduring forces are at work. Much like in the early days of affordable housing development, we confront a false dichotomy that would have us choose between affordable housing supplied on a segregated... |
2007 |
| Rebecca M. Bratspies |
THE NEW DISCOVERY DOCTRINE: SOME THOUGHTS ON PROPERTY RIGHTS AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE |
31 American Indian Law Review 315 (2006-2007) |
The recent commercial success of products developed with resort to the knowledge of traditional cultures, such as hoodia, has convinced many that biological resources, particularly when accompanied by traditional knowledge about how to exploit these resources, will be a new gold mine in the twenty-first century. Like all gold rushes, the scramble... |
2007 |
| C. Barrett Pasquini |
THE TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE STATUTORY RIGHT OF REDEMPTION IN PROPERTY FORECLOSURES |
48 William and Mary Law Review 1497 (March, 2007) |
In November of 2001, the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared the U.S. economy in recession. To counter this lull and restore strength to a struggling economy, the Federal Reserve began a series of interest rate reductions that would lead to the lowest mortgage lending rates in forty years. Almost immediately, the housing market... |
2007 |
| Gina Kline |
THOMPSON V. HUD: GROUNDBREAKING HOUSING DESEGREGATION LITIGATION, AND THE SIGNIFICANT TASK AHEAD OF ACHIEVING AN EFFECTIVE DESEGREGATION REMEDY WITHOUT ENGENDERING NEW SOCIAL HARMS |
7 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 172 (Spring 2007) |
Baltimore City should not be viewed as an island reservation for use as a container for all of the poor of a contiguous region. . . . -Judge Marvin J. Garbis, United States District Judge Housing desegregation litigation in the United States is currently marked by a tension between the state's interest in reversing the effects of intentional... |
2007 |
| Laurence R. Helfer |
TOWARD A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY |
40 U.C. Davis Law Review 971 (March, 2007) |
Introduction. 973 I. The Textual and Historical Foundations of a Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property. 978 II. Initial Contestations over Human Rights and Intellectual Property. 982 A. The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge. 982 B. The TRIPS Agreement, TRIPS-Plus Treaties, and Human Rights. 984 III. Mediating... |
2007 |
| Peter W. Salsich, Jr. |
TOWARD A POLICY OF HETEROGENEITY: OVERCOMING A LONG HISTORY OF SOCIOECONOMIC SEGREGATION IN HOUSING |
42 Wake Forest Law Review 459 (Summer 2007) |
Imagine that you are pro bono counsel to a neighborhood church organization or a community development corporation located in a middle class neighborhood. The neighborhood may be located in a central city, an inner ring suburb, or a small town being transformed into an edge city. Your organization has several proposals on tonight's meeting... |
2007 |
| Major John C. Johnson |
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT: THE OBLIGATION TO PROTECT CULTURAL PROPERTY DURING MILITARY OCCUPATION |
190/191 Military Law Review 111 (Winter, 2006/Spring, 2007) |
Works of art and sculpture, artifacts, great monuments and temples have been prized throughout history as being of significant importance. This has been so, not only because of their aesthetic worth, but also because they represent the talent and endurance of man and the history of diverse civilizations. The contributions made to this universal... |
2007 |
| Elizabeth M. Whitehorn |
UNLAWFUL EVICTIONS OF FEMALE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: EXTENDING TITLE VII'S SEX STEREOTYPING THEORIES TO THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
101 Northwestern University Law Review 1419 (Spring 2007) |
Introduction. 1419 I. Discriminatory Sex Stereotyping Under Title VII. 1428 A. Expectation Stereotyping. 1429 B. Non-conformist Stereotyping. 1430 II. Landlords' Use of One-Strike Policies to Evict Female Victims of Domestic Violence. 1434 A. The Origin of One-Strike Policies. 1434 B. One-Strike Policies Applied to Female Victims of Domestic... |
2007 |
| Nicholas P. Devereux |
WAKE OF THE FLOOD: EXAMINING THE DISSIPATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS THROUGH A MODEL OF POST-KATRINA NEW ORLEANS |
13 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 389 (Spring, 2007) |
The rebuilding process in the Gulf Coast is now in full swing, bringing hope to many for a return to normalcy in the not-so-distant future. The opportunities for abuse of the rank-and-file New Orleanian, however, are ubiquitous. The enormous disaster that Hurricane Katrina provoked occurred at a time when the gap between rich and poor in this... |
2007 |
| Ann K. Pikus |
WANTED: AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING IN WISCONSIN |
2007 Wisconsin Law Review 201 (2007) |
I. Introduction. 202 II. The Demand for Affordable Rental Housing in Wisconsin. 204 A. Snapshot of Wisconsin-Renter Characteristics. 205 1. Household Structure. 205 2. Rental Housing Cost. 206 3. Income. 206 B. Federal Efforts to Subsidize Housing Costs. 209 1. Public-Housing Projects. 209 2. Housing Choice Vouchers. 210 III. Threats to Wisconsin's... |
2007 |
| Gretchen M. Widmer |
WE CAN WORK IT OUT: REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION AND THE INTERACTIVE PROCESS UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING AMENDMENTS ACT |
2007 University of Illinois Law Review 761 (2007) |
The Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA) promotes equal use and enjoyment of housing by prohibiting discrimination against, and requiring reasonable accommodations for, tenants with disabilities. However, it is unclear what exactly is required of the landlord and tenant to fulfill the FHAA's reasonable accommodation requirement. A minority of courts... |
2007 |
| Yoonjo J. Lee |
WHITE PRIVILEGE OR BLESSING?: STANDING TO SUE AS NON-TARGETED BYSTANDERS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT |
28 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 557 (Spring 2007) |
As elite judges summarily determine which interests are worthy of legal cognizance, they unsurprisingly embrace concerns that strike closest to home, sustaining harms that mirror the experiences and predilections of their own lives. In the early 1920's, in a forgotten portion of New York City, Paul was born to Italian immigrants. During that time... |
2007 |
| Jane B. Baron |
WINDING TOWARD THE HEART OF THE TAKINGS MUDDLE: KELO, LINGLE, AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE ABOUT PRIVATE PROPERTY |
34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 613 (March, 2007) |
People care about property. In 2005, the United States Supreme Court decided two cases with deep connections to that concern, both brought by property owners challenging the government's power under the Takings Clause to take title to, or significantly affect the value of, their property. In both cases, the Court rejected the property owners'... |
2007 |
| Katharine B. Silbaugh |
WOMEN'S PLACE: URBAN PLANNING, HOUSING DESIGN, AND WORK-FAMILY BALANCE |
76 Fordham Law Review 1797 (December, 2007) |
In the past decade a substantial literature has emerged analyzing the role of work-family conflict in hampering women's economic, social, and civil equality. Many of the issues we routinely discuss as work-family balance problems have distinct spatial dimensions. Place is by no means the main factor in work-family balance difficulties, but... |
2007 |