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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Discriminatory Arizona Law Measures Nation’s Racial Sensibilities
Written by: Karla McKanders If Arizona’s passing the immigration law on Friday is a measure of our nation’s racial sensibilities, our country has a long way to go. Our country has a long history of racial discrimination towards minority groups, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-immigrant, Arizona, discrimination, federalism, Immigration, preemption, Senate Bill 1070
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A Failure of Capitalism?
Written by: andre cummings In 2008 testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the days following the failure of Lehman Brothers, former Federal Bank chair Alan Greenspan told Congress, “Those of us who have looked to … Continue reading
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Immigration Reform on the Back Burner…
Written by: Karla McKanders Shortly after health care reform passed, Republicans stated that there will be no cooperation with Democrats for the rest of the year. Specifically, John McCain stated “There will be no cooperation for the rest of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Administration, Congress, Immigration, McKanders, Obama, Reform, stall
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Contract and Structural Inequality
Written by: Deborah Post Last week we learned that Jim Perdue, Chairman of Perdue Foods Inc., spoke to Maryland legislators on behalf of the small farmers he claimed would be forced out of business if the environmental law clinic at University of … Continue reading
Posted in Legal Education & Regulation, Pedagogy, Social Justice
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New Financial Sector Regulation
Written by: andre cummings The United States Senate will take up new financial sector regulation on Monday. Momentum has been growing in recent weeks as it now appears that new regulation will receive bipartisan support. The financial market crisis of … Continue reading
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Legal Clinics Under Attack
Written by: Steven Bender Within the last week SALT defended the Maryland law school environmental clinic from legislative attack seeking to condition release of public funds on disclosure of client names and other confidential information. SALT’s efforts are described at … Continue reading
SHADRACH, BLECKER, and LODOWICK POST
Written by: Jeff Pokorak The Carnegie report exhorts us to “put the client back into legal education.” I know many have done great work surfacing the biographies of clients and litigants in cases before our students. From a fuller contextualization … Continue reading
The Why, Who, and the How of the New SALT Blog
Written by: Angela Onwuachi-Willig A few years ago, at a retreat where we set certain short and long term goals, the SALT Board agreed that SALT would have a blog. None of us knew much about blogs at that time, … Continue reading