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The Rutgers Journal of Law & Urban Policy has become a premier forum for articulating the vital intersections between the law and urban policy. Grounded in the ever-deepening awareness that interdisciplinary investigation is crucial to an understanding of both the law and our culture, the Journal provides a unique intellectual arena for encounters between law and a variety of disciplines.
Rutgers University's Journal of Law & Urban Policy is a legal publication dedicated to providing a forum for interdisciplinary discourse on urban legal and policy issues.
A primary objective of JLUP is to serve as a catalyst for collaboration between all areas of legal and urban policymaking in order to broaden the spectrum of scrutiny in related fields.
The Journal publishes work in all areas related to urban law and policy and the effects of policy decisions, regulation and law on society stemming from metropolitan issues.
The Journal of Law & Urban Policy attempts to address the contemporary issues associated with urban development by fostering interaction between policy and legal scholars to create solutions that are effective and develop urban centers away from the negatives associated therewith.
Urban Policy involves almost every area of the law. The Journal's mission is to serve as a forum for studies on the effects of policy, regulation, and law on metropolitan and urban areas including urban planning, poverty, community development, corporate and market forces and trends affecting urban centers, zoning, housing, land use, economic development, environmental policy, education, overcrowding/population control, crime, race, immigration, social issues, suburban/urban relations and effects, education, community/public art, traffic regulation, and community landscaping.
The common thread we apply to all of these areas of law and policy is the way in which they meaningfully affect the growth and the development of our urban centers and the quality of life of residents.
What makes urban policy and law uniquely attractive as an area of interest, study and participation is the way in which we as individuals can influence policy development that effects people on a large scale with much more of a chance of being effective than on a state or national level and be able to clearly see the results of their efforts in their direct affect on the people around us.
The policy and law affecting our urban centers also has a tendency to be less partisan and less cemented in political ideology and more geared to what works- what policies, whether they are economic, social, or simply administrative or regulatory in character produce meaningful, positive changes within communities and within entire urban regions.
Also, on an academic level, the umbrella of law and urban policy invites interaction with experts in multiple fields of study. The great trend for innovation in legal research has been to again try and incorporate the social sciences into areas of legal studies. Law does not exist in a vacuum. There is growing recognition that experts in multiple fields should contribute their understanding to the jurisprudential process.
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Professor Philip L. Harvey
Professor Harvey holds a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and a J.D. from Yale Law School. His research focuses on American social welfare policy, with particular attention to the problem of joblessness. He is the author of two books and numerous scholarly articles in his field of expertise, and is also active in popular advocacy work promoting broader recognition of economic and social human rights. Professor Harvey teaches Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, and Social Welfare Law and Policy. |
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Professor Sarah E. Ricks
Sarah E. Ricks graduated from Yale Law School, where she co-founded the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After clerking for the Hon. Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, she joined Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in Philadelphia as a litigation associate. From 1995 to 2001, she was an appellate and legislative attorney for the City of Philadelphia Law Department, where she successfully litigated dozens of federal and state appeals, including arguments before the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court. She represented the City of Philadelphia at the trial and appeal of its public school desegregation suit and in all litigation challenging the Pennsylvania system of funding public education. Her scholarly interests include municipal liability for civil rights violations, particularly the scope of substantive due process protections. |
Both the Urban Policy Forum, and the Journal of Urban Policy Forum may receive tax deductable donations through the Rutgers Fund.
Sponsors receive discounted tickets to events sponsored by the Journal, and the Forum. Contributors will also be listed on the website. Sponosors may also, from time to time, be featured in detail on our website.
The amount of the contribution that is deductible for federal income tax purposes is limited to the excess of any money (and the value of any property other than money) contributed by the sponsor over the value of goods or services provided by JLUP. JLUP will provide the donor with a good faith estimate of the value of the goods or services received by the sponsor. For more information, please contact business@jlup.org.
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