Unpacking Adverse Possession and Ownership as Crude Legal Functionalisms: Starecheski on the Lower East Side Squatters
By Marc L. Roark+ In 1996, five buildings on 13th Street in the Lower East Side of New York City were transferred to a housing developer to gut, refurbish, and transform into low-income housing. In the years preceding that, squatters and the city engaged in on-again, off-again claims for the space that weaved careful narratives […]
Spotlight: Authors Robert Thomas and Ilya Somin Share Their Experiences Publishing with FULJ
Our most recent scholarship, Volume 47.3, discusses the Supreme Court’s decision in Knick v. Township of Scott and its impact on takings jurisprudence and the role of Stare Decisis. Recently, two of our outstanding authors, Robert Thomas and Ilya Somin, blogged further insights about the case, Fordham Urban Law Journal’s symposium, and the publication process […]
2019 Cooper-Walsh Colloquium Round-up (Part 1)
Panelists (from left): Nestor Davidson, Constantine E. Kontokosta, Arnaud Sahuget, Dan Wu, and Geeta Tewari. This is Part 1 of our 2019 Cooper-Walsh Colloquium Round-up. The 2019 Cooper-Walsh Colloquium, Urban Intelligence and the Emerging City, took place on Friday, October 25th, 2019. Fordham Urban Law Journal’s City Square team will briefly summarize each panel and […]
Banning Plastic Bags Under the New York “Home Rule”
By Kelly O’Connor New York City residents use an estimated ten billion plastic shopping bags annually, resulting in 1,700 tons of residential garbage per week.[i] Despite the fact that city government has long recognized the great environmental and financial costs of single-use plastic bags, local proposals to reduce the number of carryout bags in the […]
New York City’s Ranked-Choice: Can NYC Bypass Albany and Unilaterally Change Its Voting System?
By Sacha Urbach For progressives living in New York, the 2018 primaries felt like a long overdue bright spot during a time of uncertainty and unrest. Letitia James became the first African-American woman to receive the Democratic nomination for New York State Attorney General, a position that Eric Schneiderman relinquished after revelations of a pattern […]
Thomas Coggin: Law & the New Urban Agenda: a role for the right to the city?
In October 2016 member states of the United Nations agreed on the New Urban Agenda. A core philosophical component of this agenda was the right to the city. This is a paradigm which provides an alternative framework to re-think urbanization along a more user-generated trajectory.
Policing in America: On Behalf of the Community
By Eric J. Miller* The development of the institutional approach to policing, and procedure more generally, is one of the most exciting features of criminal procedure over the past decade. More accurately, there are a series of institutional approaches—doctrinal, philosophical, sociological, empirical—that all claim that there is independent value in regulating the police, separate from […]
Policing in America: Rafa Esparza’s Red Summer
Yxta Maya Murray Yxta Maya Murray is a professor at Loyola Law School. She has authored six novels, and also serves as a contributing editor for Artillery Magazine, an arts publication based in Los Angeles. On Saturday, August 13, 2016, from dawn to dusk, performance artist Rafa Esparza carved weapons out of dead trees in […]
Policing in America: American Policing in the Post-Ferguson Era
By Justin Nix* American policing is currently in the midst of a legitimacy crisis, fueled primarily by numerous highly publicized fatal shootings of black citizens over the last two and a half years.[1] Arguably the most consequential was the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This incident sparked protests throughout the United States […]
Guilty of Homelessness: The Criminalization of Homelessness in the United States
Each year, the Urban Law Journal holds the Jason Libou Online Writing Competition, which considers student-written work on topics in urban planning, education, urban criminal justice, and energy and sustainability. Samantha Frankel‘s piece on the growing problem of homelessness in U.S. cities, this year’s winning submission, explores the ways in which urban governments, rather than […]