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National Public Lands Day, Saturday September 23rd

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted. They were closed during a 2013 shutdown. There is tension in the federal laws on parks and public lands, between access and protection, including keeping some lands natural, or wilderness.

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Income Inequality and Democratic Backsliding

The Lowe Down

The number of democracies across the globe has decreased from its peak in 2019. Freedom Houseā€ gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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National Public Lands Day, Saturday September 24th

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I finally finished reading The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks (" How did our national parks come to be? Leahy served as solicitor for the US Department of Interior and is the author of a definitive casebook on federal public lands law. Urban federal parks to complement the big Western parks.

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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"), SB 1790, 133 Stat 1198, into law. 2013) ("We can think of no other judicially-created doctrine which has been criticized so stridently, by so many jurists, for so long [as the Feres doctrine]."). United States , 733 F.3d

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

Attending a school with a high suspension rate could mean a 15% to 20% higher likelihood of a child being incarcerated as an adult, a 2019 NBER paper finds. 18% of black boys and 10% of black girls received an out-of-school suspension in 2013-14, compared to only 5% of white boys and 2% of white girls, the U.S.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When Itā€™s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

15] The typical method of attaching an MH unit to the underlying land –which is based upon something less than a traditional foundation but considered adequate to resist high winds - is not permanent enough to qualify as being joined together for real property law to allow both to be considered joined into a single economic unit.

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