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Third Coast Housing Solutions: The Case for Bringing YIMBY Legal Activist Strategies to Chicago

strategies could serve to improve the housing landscape in Chicago and, if so, how they could be most effectively adapted to the unique political and legal circumstances of the Chicago region. Keywords ... organized group of activists. However, several groups subscribing to the YIMBY philosophy have cropped up around the country and established formal operations. One of these is YIMBY Law, an organization based

Parliamentary Supremacy versus Judicial SupremacyHow can adversarial judicial, public, and political dialogue be institutionalised?

The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel

Hocus Pocus: Modern-Day Manifestations of Witch Hunts

recently, the term “witch hunt” has reappeared with great fervor in the political arena, used by the powerful to generate fear that serves a distinct political narrative that those in power are the true ... victims. Tweets, sound bites, and political speeches rife with accusations of a “witch hunt” reflect a modern usage which has served to delegitimize the historical context of the term. This Article argues

Fundamental Rights and the EU Internal Market: Just how Fundamental are the EU Treaty Freedoms?A Normative Enquiry Based on John Rawls’ Political Philosophy

fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical

One-Way Ticket to Mars: The Privatization of the Space Industry and its Environmental Impact on Earth and Beyond

States engaged in a competition for political superiority and development.2 In 1958, the United States launched its first satellite, the Explorer.3 The Soviets followed with another launch, and the space ... =V7bhhKOON_o&ab_channel=NASA. 46 NASA, supra note 42. 47 Our Philosophy, LUNAR OUTPOST, https://lunaroutpost.com/about/ [https://perma.cc/G9M3-YZPK] (last visited Sept. 14, 2023). 48 Id. 49 Lunar Landers, MASTEN

Paths to cheminformatics: Q&A with Nathaniel Charest

the scientific community. I think sometimes the rush to succeed can overwrite the core tenants of our philosophy – interrogation, deconstruction, and patient ratiocination. And in our community, this ... expressed some consternation with the refocusing from the graphand quantum- quantitative theory of the 20th century to the score-statistic dominated philosophy of the 21st century’s modeling. In the same way

Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political

“Indian” as a Political Classification: Reading the Tribe Back into the Indian Child Welfare Act

of children, but with the special status of tribes and their political membership. As discussed in this Paper, a racial understanding of the ICWA is inconsistent with both the statute itself and the ... ://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njlsp/vol13/iss4/3 Allison Krause Elder - Article 3 Copyright 2018 by Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy “Indian” as a Political

Trade War, PPE, and Race

has made PPE supplies casualties of the trade war. In political terms, the Trump administration prioritized increasing tariffs over public health readiness. Regarding race, PPE shortages exemplify the ... Lighthizer told Congress that the administration preferred tariffs for PPE even though PPE is needed to fight the pandemic.31 Section 301 protects these political choices made by the executive branch. Third

Name Takings

political and social institutions of the targeted group. Land is seized, and populations are forcibly transferred and their movement is restricted. Languages are banned. Spiritual leaders are persecuted ... social and political change, of course. For African Americans it was a time of intensified social protest, marked by the rise of the Black Power movement and a greater emphasis on distinctive African

CMLLite: a design philosophy for CML

content. Our approach for chemistry is Chemical Markup Language (CML) (whose evolution and philosophy is described elsewhere in this issue [4]) which has been developed to support five main areas of ... produce conformant behaviour. To illustrate the philosophy of TDD, we show a typical unit test before describing the construction of the validator. There are thousands of unit tests using CML in JUMBO

Pandemic Emotions: The Good, The Bad, and The Unconscious —Implications for Public Health, Financial Economics, Law, and Leadership

lead to vicious cycles. Fear distorts people’s decision readiness, deliberation, information acquisition, risk perception, and thinking. Distortions affect people’s financial, health, and political ... unfortunate eating,49 economic,50 ethical,51 exercise,52 financial,53 interpersonal,54 health,55 political,56 public policy,57 and sleeping decisions,58 which can in turn cause additional anxieties. Emotions

An Avenue for Corruption: Super PACs and the Common Vendor Loophole

campaign efforts, Super PACs and political candidates often engage professional media agencies or political consulting firms to aid them in production and placement of advertisements on media outlets ... that make bringing complaints regarding common vendors nearly impossible, Super PACs and political candidates continue to evade accountability. The FEC should therefore reconsider adopting a rule

IPSA’s Research Committee 21 on Political Socialization and Education

Education The International Political Science Association (IPSA) has recognized over 50 Research Committees (RCs). Between World Congresses, the research committees – largely as a result of the rapid growth

The (Political) Pursuit of Victim Voice:(Comparative) Observations on the Dutch Draft on the Adviesrecht

? needs used within the political debate may be featured as a homogeneous concept, the legal traditions that need to host victim-oriented arrangements differ. Indeed, the apparent political consensus with ... Victim Support was, however, felt to be beneficial.41 Nevertheless, the expansion of the oral VIS remained a contentious issue within the Dutch debate. In the wake of the political debate with regard to

The Virtuality of Territorial Borders

If architecture is politics, then the rise of data-driven computing systems will transform the course, if not the conditions of possibility for the political. Provoked by the work of artists Ruti ... Toronto Law Journal, no. 2, pp. 196-224. R. Sela & M. Amir (eds.), Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds (2016). The distinction between 'politics' and 'the political' stems from C. Lefort, The Political

Patch seriation to visualize data and model parameters

patches of the neighbouring objects and variables. A patch means a local space, where the given objects are similar to each other. In our philosophy, the object-variable points outside the patches are not

Environmental Justice in Little Village: A Case for Reforming Chicago’s Zoning Law

, undemocratic zoning code, then the people with the narrowest means for seeking political, economic, and medical relief will continue to suffer from lopsided levels of environmental degradation. ... , Immigration Law Commons, Land Use Law Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Race Commons, Law and Society Commons, Legal Studies Commons , Legislation Commons, Natural Resources Law Commons, Political

The ‘Social Market Economy’ in a (Heterogeneous) Social Europe: Does it Make a Difference?

financial and migration crises, serves only to highlight the gap between rhetoric and reality. We identify two main reasons for this, namely a lack of legal competence and a lack of political will. We then ... greater calls for the EU to respond to these challenges, at the very time when there is a lack of significant political will to act. These problems are exacerbated by the fact that some perceive the EU to

An Inconvenient Lie: Big Tobacco Was Put on Trial for Denying the Effects of Smoking; Is Climate Change Denial Off-Limits?

the claim raises political questions that should not be addressed by the judiciary. Some more recent climate change tort claims have also included allegations of fraud on the part of the hydrocarbon ... scientifically complex chain of causation. To the extent that climate change is a more or less scientifically sound chain of causation is a scientific question, not a political one, and is within the competency of