Problem: As community benefits agreements or community benefits arrangements (CBAs)
become more common in redevelopment practice they are generating conceptual confusion …

Over the past decade, scholars and practitioners have turned greater attention to the role of
lawyers in social movements. Although lawyers' work on behalf of movements spans the …

Generations of scholarship on the political economy of land use have tried to explain a world
in which tony suburbs use zoning to keep out development but big cities allow untrammeled …

The rise of social movements in US legal scholarship is a current response to an age-old
problem in progressive legal thought: harnessing law for social change while maintaining a …

The clinic would become a center of activity in the community, a place where organizers and
collective members interact with each other, build alliances, or mediate disputes (that seem …

Community benefits agreements (CBAs) are the latest in a long line of tools neighbors have
used to protect their neighborhood from the burdens of development, and to try to secure …

In this report I assess progress in legal geography–past and potential–in terms of its
contributions to two significant projects in contemporary critical geographic thought: the …

Local government law has fallen behind the times. Over the past two decades, economists
have developed a deep understanding of" agglomeration economics," or the study of how …

Clinical legal education is playing an increasingly important role in educating lawyers
worldwide. In The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice, editor …

A community room overflows with neighbors protesting a for-profit, out-of-town real estate
developer's efforts to bypass local zoning. The developer seeks to build what the neighbors …