Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
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 |
Dennis M. Teravainen |
FEDERAL LAW'S INDIFFERENCE TO HOUSING DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION |
7 Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy 11 (2002) |
The purpose of this Note is to report the extent that federal law fails to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination in general housing practices such as the sale, rental, or lease of a residence. Many states and local communities prohibit housing discrimination based on sexual orientation, including Massachusetts and several of its cities and... |
2002 |
Laura M. Padilla |
GENDERED SHADES OF PROPERTY: A STATUS CHECK ON GENDER, RACE & PROPERTY |
5 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 361 (Spring 2002) |
Approximately 75% of women between the ages of twenty and fifty-four now work, including nearly 65% of women with children under the age of six. Yet, women on average still earn between 70% to 75% of what men earn. Working women also continue to perform between two to three times as much housework as men, remain overwhelmingly responsible for child... |
2002 |
Clifford C. Schrupp |
GENTRIFICATION AND FAIR HOUSING LAWS: THE DETROIT EXPERIENCE |
4 Journal of Law in Society 13 (Fall, 2002) |
Is it gentrification when hundreds, even thousands, of African American middle and upper middle class single persons and families purchase and rehabilitate homes, buy units in housing cooperatives or condominiums, or purchase or rent and rehabilitate apartments and lofts in central city neighborhoods that had previously been occupied primarily by... |
2002 |
Gordon Cavanaugh |
GLOBALIZATION OF AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING NONPROFIT |
11-WTR Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 121 (Winter, 2002) |
The Cooperative Housing Foundation (CHF) was established in 1952 to take advantage of the 1950 addition of section 213 to the National Housing Act, which permitted blanket mortgage insurance of cooperatives by the Federal Housing Administration. CHF has launched more than 61,000 cooperative units, both sales and membership, throughout the country,... |
2002 |
Andrea B. Berkowitz |
HOMELESS CHILDREN DREAM OF COLLEGE TOO: THE STRUGGLE TO PROVIDE AMERICA'S HOMELESS YOUTH WITH A VIABLE EDUCATION |
31 Hofstra Law Review 515 (Winter 2002) |
In the third grade, Chuck Bacon attended eight different schools. He never had the opportunity to attend the fourth grade because his family lived in abandoned houses, in the family car, or outside in open fields. He bathed himself at a gas station and slept on a piece of cardboard. When he was twelve, he and his younger brothers began their... |
2002 |
Lee Anne Fennell |
HOMES RULE |
112 Yale Law Journal 617 (December, 2002) |
The Homevoter Hypothesis: How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies. By William A. Fischel. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 329. $45.00. In this important new book on local governance, economist William Fischel presents and defends a deceptively simple and intuitively resonant... |
2002 |
Deborah Kenn |
HOUSING CHOICE CASE STUDIES: THE TWIN CITIES REGION IN MINNESOTA AND CITY OF ROCHESTER/MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK |
11-SPG Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 303 (Spring, 2002) |
Throughout our nation, cities continue to struggle with the pernicious problem of housing segregation. Housing segregation proves itself an extremely troublesome and persistent force. The effects of historical patterns of housing segregation have become so entrenched that efforts to reverse these patterns can seem futile at worst, a drop in the... |
2002 |
Barbara Ehrlich Kautz |
IN DEFENSE OF INCLUSIONARY ZONING: SUCCESSFULLY CREATING AFFORDABLE HOUSING |
36 University of San Francisco Law Review 971 (Summer 2002) |
A CALIFORNIA COURT of appeal has decisively upheld the constitutionality of inclusionary zoning--a program that in the past twenty-five years has housed over 50,000 low- and moderate-income families in new homes that they would otherwise have been unable to afford. Inclusionary zoning requires a developer of new residences to make a certain... |
2002 |
Jennifer C. Chang |
IN SEARCH OF FAIR HOUSING IN CYBERSPACE: THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT FOR FAIR HOUSING ON THE INTERNET |
55 Stanford Law Review 969 (December, 2002) |
Introduction. 970 I. The Fair Housing Act in Cyberspace. 973 A. The Harms of Discriminatory Housing Listings. 973 B. Holding Online Service Providers Liable Under the Fair Housing Act. 977 II. The Communications Decency Act. 982 A. Text. 982 B. Legislative History. 988 C. Case Lore: § 230 According to the Courts. 994 1. Zeran v. America Online,... |
2002 |
Maria Grahn-Farley |
INTERNATIONAL CHILD RIGHTS AT HOME & ABROAD: A SYMPOSIUM ON THE UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD |
30 Capital University Law Review 657 (2002) |
Foreword: Crossing Borders Maria Grahn-Farley The Non-Discrimination Principle and Its Effect on the Education of Roma Children in the Czech Republic Leslie Burton Sex and AIDS Education in the United States: Implications of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Jason R. Hight Children's Rights to Health Care and Participation: United... |
2002 |
Peter H. Schuck |
JUDGING REMEDIES: JUDICIAL APPROACHES TO HOUSING SEGREGATION |
37 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 289 (Summer, 2002) |
Using the law to promote diversity in residential communities is probably more difficult than promoting it in any other public policy domain. Many reasons for this difficulty arise from the distinctive nature of housing markets, which in turn reflects the unique ethos that surrounds housing in American culture. Other problems are endemic to public... |
2002 |
Duncan Kennedy |
LEGAL ECONOMICS OF U.S. LOW INCOME HOUSING MARKETS IN LIGHT OF "INFORMALITY" ANALYSIS |
4 Journal of Law in Society 71 (Fall, 2002) |
This essay proposes a general framework for understanding the phenomenon of neighborhood transitions in low income housing markets in large urban areas. It is an attempt to bring to bear on typical Unitedstatesean phenomena the insights of a number of legal and nonlegal disciplines and subdisciplines that have up to now had little to say to one... |
2002 |
John R. Thomas |
LIBERTY AND PROPERTY IN THE PATENT LAW |
39 Houston Law Review 569 (2002) |
I. Patenting As Privatization. 571 II. Patenting and Public Advocacy. 580 A. Patenting Abortion. 580 B. Patenting Law. 585 C. Patenting Speech. 588 III. Patent Enforcement as State Action. 592 A. Patent Fundamentals and State Action. 594 B. The Licensing Cases. 597 C. The Speech Cases. 599 IV. Contemporary Patenting Trends and Constitutional... |
2002 |
Tim Iglesias |
MANAGING LOCAL OPPOSITION TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING: A NEW APPROACH TO NIMBY |
12-FALL Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 78 (Fall, 2002) |
San Marcos, CAOfficials from Casa de Amparo, a home for abused and neglected children in Oceanside, thought everything was going well for their plans to relocate to San Marcos. At the first two workshops, things were going swimmingly for us, said Jerry Stein, chairman of Casa's building committee. But Casa officials say they now are trying to... |
2002 |
by David L. Hudson, Jr. |
Meyer |
2001-02 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 140 (November 29, 2002) |
Corporate owners and officers generally cannot be held personally liable for the unlawful acts of a subordinate unless they directly participated in or authorized the subordinate's wrongful conduct. The Fair Housing Act, however, provides broad protection to victims of housing discrimination and the Court must now address whether the sole owner,... |
2002 |
Michael Kagan , William P. Johnson |
PERSECUTION IN THE FOG OF WAR: THE HOUSE OF LORDS' DECISION IN ADAN |
23 Michigan Journal of International Law 247 (Winter 2002) |
Of all the words in the international refugee definition, for reasons of are possibly the most forgettable. Yet these three words are leading some courts and tribunals to deny asylum to people at risk of the most serious human rights violations when committed in the context of civil war. International law requires that a refugee have a... |
2002 |
Dennis Dunmyer |
PITTSBURGH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS v. DEFELICE: THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA HOLDS THAT IT IS DISCRIMINATION UNDER THE PITTSBURGH CODE TO OFFER DISPARATE RENTAL RATES |
11 Widener Journal of Public Law 319 (2002) |
In Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations v. DeFelice, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, in a case of first impression, affirmed the decision of the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, holding that a rental property owner discriminated against members of a protected class by offering disparate rates. Additionally, the court affirmed... |
2002 |
Kristen D.A. Carpenter |
PROMISE ENFORCEMENT IN PUBLIC HOUSING: LESSONS FROM ROUSSEAU AND HUNDERTWASSER |
76 Tulane Law Review 1073 (March, 2002) |
This Article presents a new theory of public-housing reform called Promise Enforcement. Promise Enforcement is based upon Rousseau's social contract and consists of three elements: contextual thinking, valuing individuality, and comprehensive responsibility. The theory is elucidated through the work of the late Viennese artist Friedensreich... |
2002 |
Peter W. Salsich, Jr. |
PROPERTY LAW SERVES HUMAN SOCIETY: A FIRST-YEAR COURSE AGENDA |
46 Saint Louis University Law Journal 617 (Summer 2002) |
Property law is about people and how they use things. The people element underlies the two branches of property law, estates, also known as probate law, and real estate. However, it often gets obscured because of the emphasis on things in those two branches. Practicing property lawyers affectionately mark the distinction between the two branches... |
2002 |
Leland Ware |
RACE AND URBAN SPACE: HYPERSEGREGATED HOUSING PATTERNS AND THE FAILURE OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION |
9 Widener Law Symposium Journal 55 (2002) |
Reports of the 2000 census confirm a disturbing pattern: while America is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, the nation's inner cities are more segregated today than they were 50 years ago. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed discrimination in the sale and rental of housing on the basis of race, religion and national origin. During... |
2002 |
Cara Hendrickson |
RACIAL DESEGREGATION AND INCOME DECONCENTRATION IN PUBLIC HOUSING |
9 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 35 (Winter, 2002) |
On November 28, 1993, 43-year-old Yetta M. Adams froze to death on a bench across the street from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Washington, D.C. According to a childhood friend, Ms. Adams was a former child care worker, now homeless, who had sought shelter on that cold night but was turned away. Housing Secretary... |
2002 |
Spencer Overton |
RACIAL DISPARITIES AND THE POLITICAL FUNCTION OF PROPERTY |
49 UCLA Law Review 1553 (June, 2002) |
Race theorists note that racial discrimination has shaped the existing distribution of economic resources, and use this observation to justify reparations, to defend affirmative action, and to call for other legal changes that would improve the socioeconomic status of people of color. This Article takes the theorists' observation further. Property... |
2002 |
Bradley J. Nicholson |
REFLECTIONS ON CAPITALISM, PROPERTY, AND THE LAW OF SLAVERY |
27 Oklahoma City University Law Review 151 (Spring 2002) |
The connection between the rise of capitalism and the appearance, and later disappearance, of slavery in the New World has held great fascination for many scholars. In particular, the relationship between law, capitalism, and slavery has received a great deal of attention. Some have focused on the relationship between only two of these three... |
2002 |
Drew S. Days, III |
RETHINKING THE INTEGRATIVE IDEAL: HOUSING |
33 McGeorge Law Review 459 (Spring, 2002) |
Nobody talks about racial integration anymore. Is it because we don't believe in it? That we never believed in it? Is it because whites think that African-Americans have turned their backs on the integrative ideal? Have blacks endured too many acts of racism to trust even the most sincere white avowals of commitment to a shared destiny in America?... |
2002 |
Florence Wagman Roisman |
TEACHING ABOUT INEQUALITY, RACE, AND PROPERTY |
46 Saint Louis University Law Journal 665 (Summer 2002) |
That the federal government, including HUD, has a long history of having precipitated and perpetuated housing discrimination, there can be no question . . . . The federal government's home-ownership programs also reinforced discrimination and separation by income and race in our housing markets. The earliest Federal Housing Administration (FHA)... |
2002 |
David D. Haddock, Lynne Kiesling |
THE BLACK DEATH AND PROPERTY RIGHTS |
31 Journal of Legal Studies 545 (June, 2002) |
The Black Death visited unprecedented mortality rates on Europe, realigning relative values of factors of production, and in consequence the costs and benefits of defining and enforcing property rights. Our model refines the conceptual range of shared claims that exist between open access and private property, improving analysis of the postplague... |
2002 |
Joshua W. Dixon |
THE CASE AGAINST A NONDELEGABLE DUTY ON OWNERS TO PREVENT FAIR HOUSING ACT VIOLATIONS |
69 University of Chicago Law Review 1293 (Summer 2002) |
Imagine that the owner of a residential investment property hires a broker to find tenants for the property. The owner specifically instructs the broker not to discriminate in the selection of tenants, and takes affirmative steps to ensure that the broker does not do so. Without the owner's knowledge, the broker discriminates while selecting... |
2002 |
Jane B. Baron |
THE EXPRESSIVE TRANSPARENCY OF PROPERTY |
102 Columbia Law Review 208 (January, 2002) |
This Essay examines expressive theories of law. In two new books, property theorist Joseph Singer condemns the dominant, absolutist conception of property for failing to express the full range of our values; he suggests its replacement with a model, epitomized by the generous commitment of Malden Mills owner Aaron Feuerstein to rebuild his plant... |
2002 |
John F. Stanton |
THE FAIR HOUSING ACT AND INSURANCE: AN UPDATE AND THE QUESTION OF DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION |
31 Hofstra Law Review 141 (Fall 2002) |
It is the policy of the United States to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair housing throughout the United States. Little imagination is needed to understand the paramount importance of eliminating unfair discrimination in housing. To combat such discrimination, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act (FHA) over thirty years ago.... |
2002 |
Brian K. Payne, Randy R. Gainey, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Old Dominion University |
THE INFLUENCE OF DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF HOUSE ARREST |
66-DEC Federal Probation 64 (December, 2002) |
A GREAT DEAL of research has focused on how various groups perceive and experience incarceration. Research into this area is justified on the grounds that understanding will yield information about appropriate strategies to effectively and efficiently supervise, protect, and treat incarcerated offenders. Groups whose incarceration experiences have... |
2002 |