Community Development Corporations: Discussion
Panel discussion on the future of Community Development Corporations and how to spur and sustain local development projects.
The Review: Volume 15
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
Issue 2
featuring
- An Attorney General's Role in the Farm Crisis: The Minnesota Experience
- Recovery of Unemployment Insurance Over-Payments: The Role of Equity and Good Conscience
- Book Review: Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts
- Pacific Gas & Electric v. Public Utilities Commission of California: Negative First Amendment Rights for Corporations
Issue 3
featuring
- Employees, Not-So-Independent Contractors, and the Case of Migrant Farmworkers: A Challenge to the Law and Economics Agency Doctrine
- Petition for Extraordinary Relief: If the LaRouche AIDS Initiative Had Passed in California
- Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements in Chapter 11 and the Probability of Strikes: Tipping the Balance of Equities
- Symposium on Federal and State Methods of Repressing Political Activism, February 21, 1987
Issue 4
featuring
- The Relative Cost of 18-B Panel and Legal Aid Society Defense Services
- The Distribution of Multiple-Defendant (Conflict) Cases Between the Legal Aid Society and the 18-B Panel at Arraignment
- The Intractability of Reform
- The Shedding of Legal Aid Society Cases to 18-B Panel Attorneys after Arraignment
In Depth Reading
Volume 15 Issue 1
Creative Strategies for Community Finance--Introductory Remarks
Overview of development/creative strategies in financing community economic development.
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.
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
Foreign Farm Workers in the U.S.: The Impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Analyzes each of the major provisions of IRCA that affect foreign farm workers.
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.
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
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
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.
Symposium on Federal and State Methods of Repressing Political Activism, February 21, 1987
Keynote address on federal and state methods of repressing political activism.
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.
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.
Volume 15 Issue 4
Research Goals and Method
Outlines methodology for conducting research on the 18-B Panel and how it differs from data on the Legal Aid Society.
The Structure and Operation of the 18-B Panel and the Legal Aid Society
Introduces the structure and operation of the 18-B Panel and Legal Aid Society.
The Distribution of Multiple-Defendant (Conflict) Cases Between the Legal Aid Society and the 18-B Panel at Arraignment
Analyzes how Legal Aid Society distributed multiple-defendant cases to Panel attorneys, and the ramifications of delegating cases that required more skill.
Criminal Defense of the Poor in New York City Appendices
Click the PDF above for Appendices to Issue 15.4, Criminal Defense of the Poor in New York City.