The Review: Volume 15

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Issue 2

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Equitable Estoppel, Unjust Enrichment and the Good Samaritan Doctrine: Three Possible Defenses to a Farmers Home Administration Foreclosure Proceeding
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
Recovery of Unemployment Insurance Over-Payments: The Role of Equity and Good Conscience

In Depth Reading

Volume 15 Issue 1

Crisis and Opportunity: Economic Development for the 90's: Introduction

An in-depth look at the naming of the colloquium, broken down word by word.

Employee Ownership: An Economic Development Tool for Anchoring Capital in Local Communities

Demonstrates employee ownership may not keep jobs and capital in communities; recommends federal policy and examples that could prevent these pitfalls.

Creative Strategies for Community Finance--Introductory Remarks

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

State Economic Development Policy: Strategic Approaches for the Future

States must engage in strategic planning to achieve economic development. The need for creative state policies has been subordinated to national policy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change