The Review: Volume 15

Preview

Issue 2

featuring

Book Review: Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts
Recovery of Unemployment Insurance Over-Payments: The Role of Equity and Good Conscience
Pacific Gas & Electric v. Public Utilities Commission of California: Negative First Amendment Rights for Corporations
An Attorney General's Role in the Farm Crisis: The Minnesota Experience

Issue 3

featuring

Petition for Extraordinary Relief: If the LaRouche AIDS Initiative Had Passed in California
Symposium on Federal and State Methods of Repressing Political Activism, February 21, 1987
Employees, Not-So-Independent Contractors, and the Case of Migrant Farmworkers: A Challenge to the Law and Economics Agency Doctrine
Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements in Chapter 11 and the Probability of Strikes: Tipping the Balance of Equities

In Depth Reading

Volume 15 Issue 1

Community Finance in the Age of Gramm-Rudman

Advocates for the expansion of credit unions in low-income neighborhoods as a tool to stimulate reinvestment in these communities.

The Steel Valley Authority

Local response to disinvestment by big intdustries in small communities. Avoiding shut downs and attempting to counteract their effects through eminent domain.

Economic Development for Whom? The Chicago Model

Progressive city development should work to change the position of minorities, women and the poor through structural intervention, taking Chicago as an example.

Employee Ownership: A New Strategy for Economic Development

Explores employee ownership as an underutilized route to economic development in low-income communities that relies neither upon altruism nor outside funders.

Volume 15 Issue 2

Recovery of Unemployment Insurance Over-Payments: The Role of Equity and Good Conscience

In unemployment insurance, states should not have right as in NY to recover unemployment insurance over-payments from own errors; should be equity-based

Book Review: Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts

In a high-technology society many of us are exposed to toxic substances, often without realizing it. The air in our homes might contain radon. The fish we eat might be contaminated with PCBs. News reports abound with stories of newly

Pacific Gas & Electric v. Public Utilities Commission of California: Negative First Amendment Rights for Corporations

Analyzes 1st amendment rights for corporations by examining the Supreme Court case Pacific Gas and the Berger Court's definition of property rights.

America's Decision: Will We Save the Family Farm?

Considering how farming should take place in the US -- how will givernment approach the farm economy?

Volume 15 Issue 3

Symposium on Federal and State Methods of Repressing Political Activism, February 21, 1987

Keynote address on federal and state methods of repressing political activism.

Petition for Extraordinary Relief: If the LaRouche AIDS Initiative Had Passed in California

Petition for extraordinary relief against CA statute requiring HIV positive persons to report themselves to the Dept of Health.

Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements in Chapter 11 and the Probability of Strikes: Tipping the Balance of Equities

Defines how much weight a court should give to strike likelihood when evaluating a debtor's motion to reject its labor contracts.

Employees, Not-So-Independent Contractors, and the Case of Migrant Farmworkers: A Challenge to the Law and Economics Agency Doctrine

Article argues that under law and economics, unskilled migrant farmworkers should be categorically recognized as employees.

N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change