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Lenese C. Herbert BÊTE NOIRE: HOW RACE-BASED POLICING THREATENS NATIONAL SECURITY 9 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 149 (Fall 2003) FOREWORD. 150 INTRODUCTION. 155 I. Couverture: The Fourth Amendment: Doctrine of the Free. 159 II. Excluez: The Face of Those not yet Unseen -- African Americans and the Black Bill of Rights. 163 A. Slavery, Violence, and the Institution of Slavery. 164 B. Policing Freedmen. 168 C. Petit Apartheid: Policing Them Not Us . 170 III.... 2003
Camille A. Nelson CARRIERS OF GLOBALIZATION: LOSS OF HOME AND SELF WITHIN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA 55 Florida Law Review 539 (January, 2003) I. Introduction. 539 II. Plight of the Returnee. 548 III. Impact of Globalization on Home. 561 IV. Searching for Solutions. 576 2003
by David L. Hudson Jr. City of Cuyahoga Falls ET AL. 2002-03 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 223 (January 6, 2003) Many residents of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, opposed a developer's proposed low-income housing development. The developer sued, asserting that city officials had improperly coordinated an effort to stop or delay the development. The city says the suit is an attack on direct democracy, the referendum process, and the First Amendment. The developer... 2003
Richard Schragger CONSUMING GOVERNMENT 101 Michigan Law Review 1824 (May, 2003) In his ambitious new book, William Fischel, a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, gives us a new political animal: The Homevoter. The homevoter is simply a homeowner who votes (p. ix). According to Fischel, she is the key to understanding the political economy of American local government. By implication, she is the key to understanding... 2003
Lenora M. Lapidus DOUBLY VICTIMIZED: HOUSING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 11 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 377 (2003) Over the last three decades, women's rights advocates have made great strides in raising public awareness of domestic violence and developing systems to prevent and punish such abuse. As Elizabeth Schneider describes in her comprehensive book, Battered Women & Feminist Lawmaking, this achievement resulted from a movement of feminist activists and... 2003
Victor M. Goode , Conrad A. Johnson EMOTIONAL HARM IN HOUSING DISCRIMINATION CASES: A NEW LOOK AT A LINGERING PROBLEM 30 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1143 (March, 2003) With the United States Supreme Court's condemnation of legal segregation in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and a vigorous civil rights movement that led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the nation entered the beginning of a new era in race relations. This, and future civil rights legislation, would be characterized by the... 2003
Rusty Russell EQUITY IN EDEN: CAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMFORTABLY COHABIT IN SUBURBIA? 30 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 437 (2003) Abstract: State-based affordable housing initiatives have survived decades of controversy. Two of the most successfulin Massachusetts and New Jersey encourage homebuilders to bypass local regulations when zoning ordinances limit available land. Opponents assert that these programs invite developers to pillage open space, impairing wetlands and... 2003
Eugene Volokh FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: SOME THOUGHTS AFTER ELDRED, 44 LIQUORMART, AND BARTNICKI 40 Houston Law Review 697 (Symposium 2003) I. Introduction. 698 II. Intellectual Property Rules Generally. 702 A. Copyright, Trademark, and the Right of PublicityAre Not Content-Neutral Time, Place, or Manner Restrictions. 702 1. Content-Based Speech Restrictions. 703 2. Lack of Ample Alternative Channels. 711 3. The Proper Approach. 712 III. Copyright and the Copyright Exception. 713 A.... 2003
Jonathan L. Hafetz HOMELESS LEGAL ADVOCACY: NEW CHALLENGES AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE 30 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1215 (March, 2003) When large numbers of homeless people began appearing on the streets of American cities in the late 1970s, a sense of crisis galvanized advocates, the media, and policymakers. Now, over two decades later, there are more homeless people than ever, and numbers are rising rapidly, particularly among families with children. The economic expansion of... 2003
Tim Iglesias HOUSING IMPACT ASSESSMENTS: OPENING NEW DOORS FOR STATE HOUSING REGULATION WHILE LOCALISM PERSISTS 82 Oregon Law Review 433 (Summer 2003) I. Our Chronic Housing Crisis and the Regulatory Challenge Facing States. 439 A. Our Chronic Housing Crisis. 440 B. The Dual Role of Local Governments. 446 C. The Regulatory Challenge Facing State Governments. 451 II. The Prima Facie Case for Applying an Impact Assessment Requirement to Housing. 458 A. The Attraction of a Housing Impact Assessment... 2003
Ciara Carolyn Torres HOUSING IN THE HEARTLAND: AN EXAMINATION OF THE HOLLMAN V. CISNEROS CONSENT DECREE, THE POLITICS OF RACIAL CONCENTRATION AND THE POSSIBILITIES OFFERED BY DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENTALISM 17 National Black Law Journal 98 (2003) Over the past decade, far from the headlines of the national press, a small drama about racial integration has been unfolding in the heartland of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for its sports teams, ice fishing, and Norwegian accents. African Americans and Hmong immigrants may not be the first things that pop into mind when someone... 2003
Heidi Lee Cain HOUSING OUR CRIMINALS: FINDING HOUSING FOR THE EX-OFFENDER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 33 Golden Gate University Law Review 131 (Spring, 2003) Courts, commentators, and legislatures have recognized that a person with a criminal record is often burdened by social stigma, subjected to additional investigation, prejudiced in future criminal proceedings, and discriminated against by prospective employers. The only way they can get away with it is because it affects poor people. Crime... 2003
Jennifer Matta INFORMED CHOICE: EXPANDING HOUSING OPTIONS IN AN AGING SOCIETY 48 Wayne Law Review 1503 (Winter 2003) State and federal investigations have found that residents of group homes suffer from neglect, which results in injury and, at times, death. In response, individual state legislatures and regulatory services have forced residents with failing health to move to higher-care facilities, arguing that [f]ree choice has risks. The public, however,... 2003
Dana King INTERRACIAL INTIMACIES: SEX, MARRIAGE, IDENTITY, AND ADOPTION BY RANDALL KENNEDY. NEW YORK: RANDOM HOUSE, 2002. PP. 676. $30.00 19 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 201 (Spring, 2003) Randall Kennedy's book Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption is a history of black-white intimate relations that illustrates the complex and ever-changing nature of American racial politics over the past four hundred years. Referencing legal cases, personal histories, and literature, Kennedy covers a wide range of topics... 2003
R. Richard Banks INTIMACY AND RACIAL EQUALITY: THE LIMITS OF ANTIDISCRIMINATION INTERRACIAL INTIMACIES: SEX, MARRIAGE, IDENTITY, AND ADOPTION. BY RANDALL KENNEDY. NEW YORK: RANDOM HOUSE, 2002. PP. 676. ($30.00) 38 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 455 (Summer, 2003) Professor Randall Kennedy has written an engaging and provocative book about a topicinterracial intimaciesthat legal scholars all too frequently and implicitly view as unrelated to racial equality. Whereas intimate decision-making is associated with the ineffable mysteries of love and sexual attraction, racial equality brings to mind the public... 2003
Elena Goldstein KEPT OUT: RESPONDING TO PUBLIC HOUSING NO-TRESPASS POLICIES 38 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 215 (Winter, 2003) I got a call . about a tenant in the state development at Clinton. She works the second shift, 3-11 pm 5 nights a week, and she pays a babysitter for some of the time, but can't afford all 5 days. A few days a week the father of her youngest child takes care of the children. The Clinton Housing Authority [CHA] has claimed that he is living there,... 2003
Hilary Golder, Diane Kirkby MRS. MAYNE AND HER BOXING KANGAROO: A MARRIED WOMAN TESTS HER PROPERTY RIGHTS IN COLONIAL NEW SOUTH WALES 21 Law and History Review 585 (Fall, 2003) In 1891, in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Mrs. Olivia Mayne brought an action for breach of contract against two brothers, theatrical entrepreneurs, James and Charles MacMahon. Mrs. Mayne claimed the MacMahon brothers owed her money for the hire of her property, a boxing kangaroo called Fighting Jack. The MacMahons contested her claim,... 2003
O. Lee Reed NATIONBUILDING 101: REDUCTIONISM IN PROPERTY, LIBERTY, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 36 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 673 (March, 2003) In this Article, Professor Reed re-examines the importance of property as a formal legal institution. He continues by arguing that central to creating property is the right to exclude others from resources acquired without force, theft, or fraud. In countries where this right has been firmly established, per capita income far exceeds that of... 2003
Ben Darvil, Jr. NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION OR XENOPHOBISM?: AN EXAMINATION OF THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THE TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN'S RENTAL OCCUPANCY LAW 13-FALL Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 122 (Fall, 2003) A majority taken collectively is only an individual, whose opinions, and frequently whose interests, are opposed to those of another individual, who is styled a minority. If it be admitted that a man possessing absolute power may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should not a majority be liable to the same reproach? Men do not... 2003
Amy R. Bowser ONE STRIKE AND YOU'RE OUT--OR ARE YOU?: RUCKER'S INFLUENCE ON FUTURE EVICTION PROCEEDINGS FOR SECTION 8 AND PUBLIC HOUSING 108 Penn State Law Review 611 (Fall 2003) In March 2002, the Supreme Court finally resolved the ambiguity that surrounded public housing evictions and the inconsistency in court decisions that resulted from the confusion. For years, courts and public housing authorities battled over the proper interpretation of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) housing... 2003
John A. Powell OPPORTUNITY-BASED HOUSING 12-WTR Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 188 (Winter, 2003) Significant changes in our metropolitan regions require new frameworks for civil rights advocacy, particularly in the creation of fair housing. Demographic shifts, declines in private housing stock, and the altered federal role in housing, including reduced housing production and increased demolition of housing without adequate replacement, have... 2003
J. Richard White REAL PROPERTY 56 SMU Law Review 1925 (Summer 2003) I. MORTGAGES, LIENS, AND FORECLOSURES. 1926 II. PROMISSORY NOTES, LOAN COMMITMENTS, AND LOAN AGREEMENTS. 1931 III. GUARANTIES. 1934 IV. USURY. 1938 V. DEBTOR/CREDITOR. 1944 VI. VENDOR/PURCHASER. 1951 VII. DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES ACT. 1956 VIII. LEASES. 1957 IX. ADVERSE POSSESSION. 1961 X. DEEDS AND CONVEYANCES. 1964 XI. EASEMENTS. 1965 XII.... 2003
David J. Barron RECLAIMING HOME RULE 116 Harvard Law Review 2255 (June, 2003) I. Introduction. 2257 II. The Standard View: Home Rule Versus Anti-Sprawl Reform. 2266 A. The Standard View of Home Rule. 2267 B. The Standard View of What Should Replace Home Rule. 2270 C. Toward an Alternative View of Home Rule. 2276 III. The Home Rule Movement. 2277 A. Local Government Law Before the Home Rule Movement. 2280 1. Privatism and the... 2003
Christopher Saporita RECONCILING HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNTY: A FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBAL PROPERTY LAW 10 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 255 (Summer, 2003) In the wake of the massive destruction and notorious human rights abuses of World War II, the nations of the world made a widely supported commitment to protecting human rights. Fundamental to this agreement was the understanding that nation-states, previously viewed as impervious to compulsion by extra-national standards of conduct, could not be... 2003
James W. Fox Jr. RE-READINGS AND MISREADINGS: SLAUGHTER-HOUSE, PRIVILEGES OR IMMUNITIES, AND SECTION FIVE ENFORCEMENT POWERS 91 Kentucky Law Journal 67 (2002-2003) The Supreme Court has inspired mountains of commentary with recent decisions in two separate areas of Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence. On the one hand, the Court has suggested in Saenz v. Roe that the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment may be re-opened as a source of constitutional rights. On the other, the Court has... 2003
Michaell Crews-Yancey SHOULD DISPARATE IMPACT CLAIMS BE ALLOWED AGAINST MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS IN ITS USE OF INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM POWER AS TO LOW OR MODERATE-INCOME HOUSING PROJECTS? 4 Journal of Law in Society 415 (Winter 2003) In the recent Supreme Court case, Cuyahoga Falls v. Buckeye Community Hope Foundation, Cuyahoga Falls, a suburb of Akron, fought a $3 million dollar lawsuit that accused it of holding a racially motivated referendum in 1996 in order to keep the town from integrating. The referendum, in that case, related to a proposal for low or moderate-income... 2003
David S. Bogen SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE: VIEWS OF THE CASE 55 Hastings Law Journal 333 (December, 2003) Because I believe that the demise of the Privileges or Immunities Clause has contributed in no small part to the current disarray of our Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence, I would be open to reevaluating its meaning in an appropriate case. Before invoking the Clause, however, we should endeavor to understand what the framers of the Fourteenth... 2003
Donald K. Hill SOCIAL SEPARATION IN AMERICA: THURGOOD MARSHALL AND THE TEXAS CONNECTIONS 28 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 177 (Spring, 2003) Thoroughgood, later changed to Thurgood, Marshall spent the first third of his life exploring the Eastern Shore of Maryland. His family moved to New York's Harlem when he was two years old but returned to Baltimore's Druid Hill Avenue four years later. In high school, he traveled to Delaware with the debating team, and as a part-time porter; he... 2003
Shelby D. Green SPECIFIC RELIEF FOR ANCIENT DEPRIVATIONS OF PROPERTY 36 Akron Law Review 245 (2003) July 1998: The Wiljen tribe in Western Australia staked a claim to 13.2 million square kilometres of Antarctica. In 1795, the State of New York purchased more than 64,000 acres of land from the Cayuga Indian Nation for roughly $2,000, plus a small annual annuity. Two centuries later, a federal court would declare that sale void because it... 2003
J. Allen Douglas THE "MOST VALUABLE SORT OF PROPERTY": CONSTRUCTING WHITE IDENTITY IN AMERICAN LAW, 1880-1940 40 San Diego Law Review 881 (August-September, 2003) I. Introduction. 882 II. Plessy and Property. 889 III. The Relational Regime of Property. 896 IV. Reputation and the Social Self. 902 V. Reputation as Property. 908 VI. Whiteness as a Reputational Claim. 911 VII. Family Property: Whiteness in Marriage. 932 VIII. The Whiteness of Children: Mandamus and School Segregation. 937 IX. Conclusion. 945... 2003
Frank H. Wu THE ARRANGEMENTS OF RACE 101 Michigan Law Review 2209 (May, 2003) So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald In his debut novel, Stephen Carter takes pains to explain that although he and his protagonist, Talcott Garland (who goes by Misha), share superficial aspects of their identities, they should not be confused as twins. Carter and Misha may both... 2003
Jonathan Douglas Witten THE COST OF DEVELOPING AFFORDABLE HOUSING: AT WHAT PRICE? 30 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 509 (2003) Abstract: It is not disputed that many of the nation's cities, towns, and tribal reservations, and their current or would be residents, are facing an affordable housing crisis. At issue is how municipal governmentsthe level of government within which housing gets builtcan solve this crisis without exacerbating existing problems or creating new... 2003
Joy S. Kimbrough THE FEDERAL HOUSING ACT: NO MORE ABSOLUTE OWNER LIABILITY WHEN EMPLOYEES DISCRIMINATE 31 Southern University Law Review 109 (Fall 2003) Presently, more than three decades after the 1968 Fair Housing Act (FHA) banned such behavior, blatant discrimination, often accompanied by racist slurs, is still prevalent in America's housing markets. The FHA provides, in pertinent part, that it is unlawful (t)o refuse to sell or rent after the making of a bona fide offer, or to refuse to... 2003
Eliza Hirst THE HOUSING CRISIS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: DISPARATE IMPACT CLAIMS AND OTHER HOUSING PROTECTION FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 10 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 131 (Winter, 2003) On August 2, 1999, Tiffanie Ann Alvera was severely beaten by her husband in the Creekside Village apartment complex in Seaside, Oregon. Within forty-eight hours of being rushed to the hospital, Alvera obtained a restraining order, notified her landlord of the restraining order, requested that her husband's name be taken off the lease, and applied... 2003
Marc R. Poirier THE NAFTA CHAPTER 11 EXPROPRIATION DEBATE THROUGH THE EYES OF A PROPERTY THEORIST 33 Environmental Law 851 (Fall 2003) The limits set to property by other public interests present themselves as a branch of what is called the police power of the State. The boundary at which the conflicting interests balance cannot be determined by any general formula in advance, but points in the line, or helping to establish it, are fixed by decisions that this or that concrete... 2003
John Nelson THE PERPETUATION OF SEGREGATION: THE SENIOR HOUSING EXEMPTION IN THE 1988 AMENDMENTS TO THE FAIR HOUSING ACT 26 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 103 (Fall 2003) This article will examine the Fair Housing Act and its 1988 Amendments, specifically the familial discrimination amendment making families with children a protected class. It will show that minorities are still being denied equal housing opportunities as a result of an exception permitting senior housing to exclude children. In 1988, families with... 2003
Debra Lyn Bassett THE POLITICS OF THE RURAL VOTE 35 Arizona State Law Journal 743 (Fall, 2003) This article is about dispelling myths. Rural dwellers are thought to live in peaceful idyllic settings where issues are simple and unproblematic. A reduced focus on material goods renders money of less concern than in the faster paced style of urban living. Moreover, the political interests of rural dwellers are more fully protected than warranted... 2003
Olivia L. Zirker THIS LAND IS MY LAND: THE EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LAND REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA 18 Connecticut Journal of International Law 621 (Spring, 2003) Property rights and land reform traditionally have not been concepts incorporated into international human rights law. This is in part because property rights are difficult to categorize: they include many different types of rights, such as civil, political, economic, and social. For example, an individual who holds title to land has a civil right... 2003
Nancy Levit , Robert R.M. Verchick UNIQUE PROPERTY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 18 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 589 (2003) This bibliography covers law review articles and supplemental A.L.R. entries published after 1997. We also include a handful of especially interesting pieces published in or before 1997, which we believe are just too good to pass up. A.L.R. entries, whose titles are usually self-explanatory, are cited, but not annotated. Similarly, articles that... 2003
Jennifer E. Watson WHEN NO PLACE IS HOME: WHY THE HOMELESS DESERVE SUSPECT CLASSIFICATION 88 Iowa Law Review 501 (January, 2003) I. Introduction. 502 II. Background. 503 A. Homelessness in the United States. 503 B. Suspect Classification. 508 III. The Court's Treatment of the Homeless as a Suspect Class. 512 IV. The Homeless as a Suspect Class. 515 A. Discrete and Insular Minority. 516 B. Historical Discrimination and Political Powerlessness. 518 C. Irrelevance. 523 D.... 2003
Wendell E. Pritchett WHERE SHALL WE LIVE? CLASS AND THE LIMITATIONS OF FAIR HOUSING LAW 35 Urban Lawyer 399 (Summer, 2003) In 1952, Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the first African-American to play in baseball's major leagues, decided to move his family from Long Island to West Chester, New York, or Connecticut. For over a year, Robinson's wife, Rachel, searched for a suitable place for their growing family. During this process, according to... 2003
Trevor S. Blake YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR: A NEW FEMINIST PROPOSAL FOR ALLOCATING MARITAL PROPERTY UPON DIVORCE 4 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 889 (Summer, 2003) This paper introduces a new feminist proposal (The Plan) for allocating marital property upon divorce. To encourage women to attain and maintain economic and psychological independence before, during, and after marriage, marital property should, upon divorce, be divided proportionately based on the amount of economic contribution made to its... 2003
Jonathan L. Hafetz "A MAN'S HOME IS HIS CASTLE?": REFLECTIONS ON THE HOME, THE FAMILY, AND PRIVACY DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES 8 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 175 (Winter, 2002) The maxim that a man's house is his castle is one of the oldest and most deeply rooted principles in Anglo-American jurisprudence. It reflects an egalitarian spirit that embraces all levels of society down to the poorest man living in his cottage. The maxim also forms part of the fabric of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which... 2002
Robert G. Schwemm, Rigel C. Oliveri A NEW LOOK AT SEXUAL HARASSMENT UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT: THE FORGOTTEN ROLE OF § 3604(C) 2002 Wisconsin Law Review 771 (2002) Introduction. 772 I. Sexual Harassment Law and the Fair Housing Act. 774 A. Overview of the Fair Housing Act and Its Similarity to Title VII. 774 B. The Role of Title VII Law in Housing Cases. 776 1. title vii law of sexual harassment. 776 2. sexual harassment cases under the fha. 781 3. appellate decisions rejecting hostile housing environment... 2002
Marc T. Smith , Ruth L. Steiner AFFORDABLE HOUSING AS AN ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITY 36 Valparaiso University Law Review 443 (Spring, 2002) Suburban and exurban communities have adopted a range of land use regulations that have had the effect, intended or not, of excluding affordable housing from within their boundaries. These impacts have been well documented, from studies of exclusionary zoning to those considering land use regulations more broadly. As a result of these policies,... 2002
Paul Taylor ALTERNATIVES TO A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT: HOW CONGRESS MAY PROVIDE FOR THE QUICK, TEMPORARY FILLING OF HOUSE MEMBER SEATS IN EMERGENCIES BY STATUTE 10 Journal of Law & Policy 373 (2002) Recently, some have argued that a constitutional amendment is necessary to provide for the temporary appointment of House members to fill seats left vacant by terrorist attacks directed at Congress and resulting in large numbers of casualties. Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, for example, has written that [i]f a large number... 2002
Josiah N. Drew CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS: AMELIORATING THE COLLISION COURSE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION ANTI-DISCRIMINATION RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS FREE EXERCISE RIGHTS IN THE PUBLIC WORKPLACE 16 BYU Journal of Public Law 287 (2002) In recent decades, religious individuals and institutions have increasingly brought actions against the application of civil rights laws, particularly those laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. Correspondingly, and perhaps reciprocally, advocates for the prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation have... 2002
Erin P. B. Zasada CIVIL RIGHTS--RIGHTS PROTECTED AND DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED: LIVING IN SIN IN NORTH DAKOTA? NOT UNDER MY LEASE NORTH DAKOTA FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL, INC. V. PETERSON, 2001 ND 81, 625 N.W.2D 551 (2001) 78 North Dakota Law Review 539 (2002) In March 1999, Robert Kippen and Patricia DePoe, an engaged but unmarried couple, unsuccessfully attempted to rent a duplex from David and Mary Peterson. The couple was denied housing by the Petersons because they were unlawfully seeking to cohabit according to the North Dakota unlawful cohabitation statute. The couple married a month after the... 2002
Keith Sealing DEAR LANDLORD: PLEASE DON'T PUT A PRICE ON MY SOUL: TEACHING PROPERTY LAW STUDENTS THAT "PROPERTY RIGHTS SERVE HUMAN VALUES." 5 New York City Law Review 35 (Summer 2002) Property rights serve human values. Every law student needs to emerge from the crucible of first-year property law with a clear understanding that when O conveys Blackacre to A for life, remainder to B and his heirs, O has created a life estate in A and a future interest, a vested remainder, in B; or that when O conveys Blackacre to A and his... 2002
Austan Goolsbee, Peter J. Klenow, University of Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis EVIDENCE ON LEARNING AND NETWORK EXTERNALITIES IN THE DIFFUSION OF HOME COMPUTERS 45 Journal of Law & Economics 317 (October, 2002) In this paper we examine the importance of local spilloverssuch as network externalities and learning from othersin the diffusion of home computers. We use data on 110,000 U.S. households in 1997. Controlling for many individual characteristics, we find that people are more likely to buy their first home computer in areas where a high fraction of... 2002
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