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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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

CRIMINAL ADVISORY JURIES: A SENSIBLE COMPROMISE FOR JURY SENTENCING ADVOCATES

applied independent of black-letter law, supported the predominant political philosophy of the eighteenth and earlynineteenth centuries. Id. at 172. Because natural law was thought to be accessible by ... goals the law seeks to achieve.2 Unlike both the judge and the legislator, a jury’s expression of moral condemnation is immune from impeachment by institutional and political influences.3 And in the

Changing Attitudes About Democratic Participation Through a Catalytic Experience

, but this Article posits that by engaging citizens in the political process through an initial catalyst democratic participation experience, these citizens will ultimately think more positively about ... , 460 (2013); See generally LESTER MILBRATH, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION (1965); ROBERT DAHL, WHO GOVERNS? DEMOCRACY AND POWER IN AN AMERICAN CITY (1961). 3 See Hill, supra note 2, at 460. 4 Jose A. DelReal

Changing Attitudes About Democratic Participation Through a Catalytic Experience

, but this Article posits that by engaging citizens in the political process through an initial catalyst democratic participation experience, these citizens will ultimately think more positively about ... , 460 (2013); See generally LESTER MILBRATH, POLITICAL PARTICIPATION (1965); ROBERT DAHL, WHO GOVERNS? DEMOCRACY AND POWER IN AN AMERICAN CITY (1961). 3 See Hill, supra note 2, at 460. 4 Jose A. DelReal

Investing in Iraq: Legal and Political Aspects

community, and to remove the state from the commanding heights of the Iraqi economy. These changes would inevitably lead to political reforms. I applied to the Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") for a ... starters, what is happening in Iraq may be the central foreign policy issue in this year's Presidential election in the United States. Although China has political salience in terms of jobs and outsourcing

Managing Political Risks in Emerging Market Investment

investing in emerging markets, including impediments to such investments, is reasonably evident. High on the list of things that make emerging market investment special is political risk. If one is concerned

To “Advice and C̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶t̶Delay”: The Role of Interest Groups in the Confirmation of Judges to the Federal Courts of Appeal

Political and partisan battles over nominees to the federal courts of appeal have reached unprecedented levels. This article considers the reasons for this change in the process. Using evidence from ... deeper than mere qualifications, and justifies inquiry into a nominee’s ideology and judicial philosophy (i.e., how a nominee will decide particular issues if confirmed).9 Still others have argued that the

To “Advice and C̶o̶n̶s̶e̶n̶t̶Delay”: The Role of Interest Groups in the Confirmation of Judges to the Federal Courts of Appeal

Political and partisan battles over nominees to the federal courts of appeal have reached unprecedented levels. This article considers the reasons for this change in the process. Using evidence from ... deeper than mere qualifications, and justifies inquiry into a nominee’s ideology and judicial philosophy (i.e., how a nominee will decide particular issues if confirmed).9 Still others have argued that the

Outside Tinker’s Reach: An Examination of Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L. and its Implications

and the Ninth Circuit, determining that the speech at issue in Fraser was unlike the speech protected in Tinker because it combined non-political origins with inappropriate content.41 Taken altogether ... , schools can still prohibit the use of “lewd and indecent language” in a non-political context “during a school-sponsored activity” to protect minors from inappropriate behavior and educate them about “the