The Urban Lawyer 51:3

Articles

Probate

Heirs Property and Prescriptive Easements: Intersecting Unrecorded Rights in Property and Practical Solutions for Getting from Here to There

W. Andrew Gowder, Jr.

This article explores the intersection of prescriptive easements and heirs property common in historic African American settlement communities and how providing access to heirs property could be resolved by agreement.

Eminent Domain

Affordable Housing: Three Roadblocks to Regulatory Reform

Dwight Merriam

Three roadblocks to affordable housing requiring our immediate attention are home rule, limitations of the Fair Housing Act, and legally enforceable covenants that preclude affordable housing. Much can be done to push aside these roadblocks.

Discovery

Protecting the Common Good with the Required Records Doctrine

Allard Chu

This article reviews the historical context of the required records doctrine and its applicability to compel the production of records despite an assertion of the privilege against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment.

Local Government

Introduction: Ensuring an Informed Public: State Open Records and Meetings Laws

Aaron C. Dunlap

An introduction to Ensuring an Informed Public: State Open Records and Meetings Laws, an ABA publication on individual states’ open meeting and public records laws, and an excerpt of Chapter 9, concerning cybersecurity challenges and public records.

Federal Government

Introduction: Meeting the Legal Needs of Disaster Survivors

James J. Sandman

Lawyers play a crucial role in providing assistance to victims of natural disasters. Meeting the Legal Needs of Disaster Survivors explains the need for pro bono disaster legal assistance and how service can be provided most effectively.

Student Note

Local Government

Gentrification and the Cycle of (In)Equity—Using Land Use Authority to Combat Displacement

Gabriella Mickel

In addressing inequity, municipalities can trigger displacement. This article argues that municipalities could deploy anti-displacement land use strategies to stop this cycle of (in)equity, and offers an analysis of a selection of such strategies.

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Developments in Interstate Compact Law and Practice 2021

Articles

Heirs Property and Prescriptive Easements: Intersecting Unrecorded Rights in Property and Practical Solutions for Getting from Here to There

Affordable Housing: Three Roadblocks to Regulatory Reform

Protecting the Common Good with the Required Records Doctrine

Introduction: Ensuring an Informed Public: State Open Records and Meetings Laws

Introduction: Meeting the Legal Needs of Disaster Survivors

Student Note

Gentrification and the Cycle of (In)Equity—Using Land Use Authority to Combat Displacement

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The Urban Lawyer 51:3

Developments in Interstate Compact Law and Practice 2021

Articles

Heirs Property and Prescriptive Easements: Intersecting Unrecorded Rights in Property and Practical Solutions for Getting from Here to There

Affordable Housing: Three Roadblocks to Regulatory Reform

Protecting the Common Good with the Required Records Doctrine

Introduction: Ensuring an Informed Public: State Open Records and Meetings Laws

Introduction: Meeting the Legal Needs of Disaster Survivors

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Student Note

Gentrification and the Cycle of (In)Equity—Using Land Use Authority to Combat Displacement

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