The Review: Volume 15

Preview

Issue 2

featuring

An Attorney General's Role in the Farm Crisis: The Minnesota Experience
Pacific Gas & Electric v. Public Utilities Commission of California: Negative First Amendment Rights for Corporations
Foreign Farm Workers in the U.S.: The Impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Equitable Estoppel, Unjust Enrichment and the Good Samaritan Doctrine: Three Possible Defenses to a Farmers Home Administration Foreclosure Proceeding

In Depth Reading

Volume 15 Issue 1

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.

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.

Crisis and Opportunity: Keynote Address

The questions posed at this colloquium touch on some of the major issues confronting New York City over the next four years and beyond. How we answer these questions will have wide-ranging implications for the future direction of economic development

Creative Strategies for Community Finance--Introductory Remarks

Overview of development/creative strategies in financing community economic development.

Volume 15 Issue 2

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

An Attorney General's Role in the Farm Crisis: The Minnesota Experience

Argues state attorneys general have a crucial role to play in the farm crisis; case study of Minnesota.

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.

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

Volume 15 Issue 3

Challenging Fake Abortion Clinics: Protecting Women's Privacy Interests without Violating the First Amendment

Argues state attorneys can challenge fake abortion clinics under existing state statutes without violating 1st amendment.

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