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Highways and Bi-Ways for Environmental Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the past, present, and future of the environmental justice movement as illustrated by the highway between Selma and Montgomery in Alabama and the highway system surrounding the City of Atlanta in neighboring ...
Lazarus, Richard J.
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Foreword and Prologue [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
Milton Konvitz (Ph.D. \u2733) embodied the spirit of Cornell University. An authority on civil rights and human rights, and constitutional and labor law, he served on the Cornell faculty for 27 years, holding dual appointments at the Law School and the ...
Danelski, David J., McKersie, Robert B.
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Palsgraf, Punitive Damages, and Preemption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This Article utilizes civil recourse theory along with a pragmatic conceptualist methodology to solve three problems in tort law: one on Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., one on punitive damages (as seen in the Supreme Court’s struggles with Philip ...
Zipursky, Benjamin C.
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Authorized Managerialism Under the Federal Rules— and the Extent of Convergence With Civil-Law Judging [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article, part of a symposium marking the fortieth anniversary of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, first surveys the (very considerable) extent to which changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure over the ...
Rowe, Thomas D., Jr.
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Civil Society and Philanthropy Under Putin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
"Civil Society and Philanthropy Under Putin," The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law 8: 3 (May ...
Richard Weitz
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Legal Origins and the Evolution of Institutions: Evidence from American State Courts [PDF]

open access: yes
Several important studies of institutions assume that the quality of institutions is persistent following some formative historic event. The assumption of institutional persistence, however, begs the question of how these institutions persisted.
Daniel Berkowitz, Karen Clay
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Power Sharing and the Rule of Law in the Aftermath of Civil War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
What effect do power-sharing institutions agreed to as part of civil war settlements have on the development of the rule of law in post–civil war states?
Hartzell, Caroline A., Hoddie, Matthew
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Fighting Terrorism in an Electronic Age: Does the Patriot Act Unduly Compromise Our Civil Liberties? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The USA PATRIOT Act is tremendously controversial, both lauded by law enforcement and decried by civil liberties groups. This iBrief considers two of the Act\u27s communications monitoring provisions, concluding that each compromises civil liberties to a
Raab, Christopher P.
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