The Urban Lawyer

Author : John P. Heinz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226325408

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Urban Lawyers by John P. Heinz Pdf

Over the past several decades, the number of lawyers in large cities has doubled, women have entered the bar at an unprecedented rate, and the scale of firms has greatly expanded. This immense growth has transformed the nature and social structure of the legal profession. In the most comprehensive analysis of the urban bar to date, Urban Lawyers presents a compelling portrait of how these changes continue to shape the field of law today. Drawing on extensive interviews with Chicago lawyers, the authors demonstrate how developments in the profession have affected virtually every aspect of the work and careers of urban lawyers-their relationships with clients, job tenure and satisfaction, income, social and political values, networks of professional connections, and patterns of participation in the broader community. Yet despite the dramatic changes, much remains the same. Stratification of income and power based on gender, race, and religious background, for instance, still maintains inequality within the bar. The authors of Urban Lawyers conclude that organizational priorities will likely determine the future direction of the legal profession. And with this landmark study as their guide, readers will be able to make their own informed predictions.

Author : Nestor M. Davidson,Geeta Tewari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351245685

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Global Perspectives in Urban Law by Nestor M. Davidson,Geeta Tewari Pdf

The growing field of urban law demands a collaborative scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives. This volume offers diverse insights into urban law, with emerging theories and analyses of topics ranging from criminal reform and urban housing, to social and economic inequality and financial crises, and democratization and freedom for individual identity and space. Particularly now, social, economic, and cultural issues must be closely examined in conjunction with the rule of law not only to address inadequate access to basic services, but also to construct long-term plans for our cities and our world—a bright, safe future.

Author : Nestor M. Davidson,Geeta Tewari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429582820

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Law and the New Urban Agenda by Nestor M. Davidson,Geeta Tewari Pdf

The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future. At the heart of this new vision stand a myriad of legal challenges – and opportunities – that must be confronted for the world to make good on the NUA’s promise. In response, this book, which complements and expands on the editors’ previous volumes on urban law in this series, offers a constructive and critical evaluation of the legal dimensions of the NUA. As the volume’s authors make clear, from natural disasters and resulting urban migration in Honshu and Tacloban, to innovative collaborative governance in Barcelona and Turin, to accessibility of public space for informal workers in New Delhi and Accra, and power scales among Brazil’s metropolitan regions, there is a deep urgency for thoughtful research to understand how law can be harnessed to advance the NUA’s global mission of sustainable urbanism. It thus creates a provocative and academic dialogue about the legal effects of the NUA, which will be of interest to academics and researchers with an interest in urban studies.

Author : Nestor Davidson,Nisha Mistry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317107613

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Law Between Buildings by Nestor Davidson,Nisha Mistry Pdf

The rich field of urban law has thus far lacked a holistic and concerted scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives. This work offers new inroads into the global and comparative streams within urban law by presenting emerging frameworks and approaches to topics ranging from urban housing and land use to legal informality and consumer financial protection. The volume brings together a group of international urban legal scholars to highlight emergent global, interdisciplinary perspectives within the field of urban law, particularly as they have import for comparative legal analysis. The book presents a timely addition to the literature given the urgent legal issues that continue to surface in an age of rapid urbanization and globalization.

Author : Daniel K. Slone,Doris S. Goldstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470053294

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A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects by Daniel K. Slone,Doris S. Goldstein Pdf

Written by pioneering attorneys in the emerging fields of urbanism and green building, A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects offers you practical solutions for legal issues you may face in planning, zoning, developing, and operating such communities. Find information on legal issues related to urban form, legal mechanisms and ways to incorporate good urban design into local land regulation, overcoming impediments to sound urban design practice, and state and Federal issues related to the legal issues of urban design and planning.

Author : Muhammad Ibn Bashir
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1451617127

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Raw Law by Muhammad Ibn Bashir Pdf

The first book of legal advice for the hip hop generation, Covering areas ranging from how to secure the best public defender to what to do when driving DWB, this is a step-by-step guide to the criminal system for those who need it most written by a criminal defense attorney who knows this world from the inside out. A counterpoint to the Law and Order justice the public sees and believes in. This is the real criminal justice system, as told from someone inside, someone fights it ever day. This is not a manual for how to get off, how to be a better criminal. It is proof that the system will eat you up and spit you out if you dare to become involved or think you can beat it. Raw Law authoritatively addresses the legal issues faced by the hip hop generation, and offers a simple guide on how to avoid certain situations and how to learn and respond to others. Here readers will learn the truths and untruths of the justice system and how they can protect themselves from the worst of it. But most of all, they will learn how to follow the first rule of the criminal justice system: AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS.

Author : Randy K. Lippert,Stefan Treffers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000335828

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Condominium Governance and Law in Global Urban Context by Randy K. Lippert,Stefan Treffers Pdf

This book examines condominium, property, governance, and law in international and conceptual perspective and reveals this urban realm as complex and mutating. Condominiums are proliferating the world over and transforming the socio-spatial organization of cities and residential life. The collection assembles arguably the most prominent scholars in the world currently working in this broad area and situated in multiple disciplines, including legal and socio-legal studies, political science, public administration, and sociology. Their analyses span condominium governance and law on five continents and in nine countries: the United States (US), China, Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), Canada, South Africa, Israel, Denmark, and Spain. Neglected issues and emerging trends related to condominium governance and law in cities from Tel Aviv to Chicago to Melbourne are discerned and analysed. The book pursues fresh empirical inquiries and cogent conceptual engagements regarding how condominiums are governed through law and other means. It includes accounts of a wide range of governance difficulties including chronic anti-social owner behaviour, short-term rentals, and even the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they are being dealt with. By uncovering crucial cross-national commonalities, the book reveals the global urban context of condominium governance and law as empirically rich and conceptually fruitful. The book will appeal to researchers and students in socio-legal studies, law, sociology, political science, urban studies, and public administration as well as journalists, social activists, policymakers, and condo owners/board members.

Author : Dwight H. Merriam
Publisher : Amer Bar Assn
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1616328231

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At the Cutting Edge, 2010 by Dwight H. Merriam Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
ISBN : UCAL:B5130283

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The Urban Lawyer by Anonim Pdf

The national quarterly on local government law.

Author : Thomas P. Murphy
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : City planning and redevelopment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118402408

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Urban Law by Thomas P. Murphy Pdf

Author : Dwight H. Merriam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Building laws
ISBN : 161438181X

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At the Cutting Edge 2011 by Dwight H. Merriam Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : City planning
ISBN : 160442785X

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At the Cutting Edge 2009 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tony Lindsay
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1933967293

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One Dead Lawyer by Tony Lindsay Pdf

When a prominent lawyer turns up dead, security escort David Price once again finds himself in trouble, in this action-packed sequel to One Dead Preacher. Original.

Author : Mariana Valverde
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226921914

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Everyday Law on the Street by Mariana Valverde Pdf

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 political culture itself. In Everyday Law on the Street, Mariana Valverde brings to light the often unexpected ways that the development and implementation of policies shape everyday urban life. Drawing on four years spent participating in council hearings and civic association meetings and shadowing housing inspectors and law enforcement officials as they went about their day-to-day work, Valverde reveals a telling transformation between law on the books and law on the streets. She finds, for example, that some of the democratic governing mechanisms generally applauded—public meetings, for instance—actually create disadvantages for marginalized groups, whose members are less likely to attend or articulate their concerns. As a result, both officials and citizens fail to see problems outside the point of view of their own needs and neighborhood. Taking issue with Jane Jacobs and many others, Valverde ultimately argues that Toronto and other diverse cities must reevaluate their allegiance to strictly local solutions. If urban diversity is to be truly inclusive—of tenants as well as homeowners, and recent immigrants as well as longtime residents—cities must move beyond micro-local planning and embrace a more expansive, citywide approach to planning and regulation.

Author : James A. Kushner
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015056809513

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Comparative Urban Planning Law by James A. Kushner Pdf

This text is divided into a series of discussion topics, offering descriptions of the American response to specific urban problems and contrasting the American experience with approaches from other nations. Kushner offers readers, including those with no experience in the field, a wide range of discussion topics to suit their interests. The selected subjects range from traditional planning techniques such as zoning and "smart growth" management systems, to affordable housing, transportation, economic development, and urban revitalization. Other topics such as land use controls and land development laws in different countries are also included. This book can be read by those simply interested in the field, or by readers searching for a lively discussion of contemporary problems.