Urban State category: 462 books
Sword and Shield
A Practical Approach to Section 1983 Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Section 1983 claims are as
legally and factually complex as ever. Every official policy or conduct of state
government is potentially subject to a suit on some constitutional or statutory
theory of liability – such as tracing the lines of authority that set forth the
parameters for an illegal search...
Banished
The New Social Control In Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects their presence inflicts on property values and public safety, many cities have wholeheartedly embraced...
by Patrick John McGinley
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This law school casebook analyzes the Constitution of the State of Florida. It begins with the idea of a state being a "laboratory of democracy" where rights may be expanded or invented within the minimum requirements of the federal constitution. It explores the question of how a state constitution...
Everyday Law on the Street
City Governance in an Age of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Toronto prides itself on being “the world’s most diverse city,” and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited by problems inherent in the...
Enterprise of Law
Justice Without the State
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the minds of many, the provision of justice and security has long been linked to the state. To ask whether non-state institutions could deliver those services on their own, without the aid of coercive taxation and a monopoly franchise, runs the risk of being branded as naive anarchism or dangerous...
The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock
Judicial Independence and Civic Populism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case...
Snob Zones
Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the Northeast
Winner of the 2014 Bruss Silver Award and First-Time Author Award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors
Towns with strict zoning...
by Mehmet Merdan Hekimoglu
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Public Law / Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This Study concerns itself with the Turkish constitutional developments from Ottoman times to the present state of the modern Turkish Republic.In this way, the historical...
The Poverty Industry
The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net
Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected...
Servants of the Law
Judicial Politics on the California Frontier, 1849-89
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created a lasting influence on the politics and judicial history of California's Supreme Court during the court's formative years of 1855 to 1865. These jurists shared the state's highest...
by Geoffrey McGovern, Michael D. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
RAND Corporation researchers surveyed experts from five states that use a variety of approaches to funding state court systems to assess financing, accounting, and governance issues under various systems.
From Dissonance to Sense
Welfare State Expectations, Privatisation and Private Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
First published in 1999, this book focuses on the new role of private law in late modernity. It analyses the pressures for changes in this area of law due to the present processes of privatisation and marketisation. The perspective is welfarist: in what ways and to what extent can the welfare state...
The American Commonwealth
Vol. 2: The State Governments
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Professor Bryce's work rises at once to an eminent place among studies of great nations and their institutions. It is, so far as America goes, a work unique in scope, spirit, and knowledge. There is nothing like it anywhere extant, nothing that approaches it. Without exaggeration, it may be called...
by Lawyer Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
A Local Practice Guide for Attorneys
Procedures and Forms for Local, State and Federal Courts in Harris County
With contributions from: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston,
Jefferson,Liberty, and Montgomery counties
A Joint Project of the
Houston Young Lawyers...