A growing set of social movements has in recent years revived interest in “community
control,” the idea that local residents should exercise power over services like the police …

This Article examines the federal government's community engagement efforts with
American Muslim communities as part ofa larger infrastructure for policing radicalization and …

Law is an increasingly pervasive force in our society. At the same time, however, the
obstacles to law's effectiveness are also growing. In The limits of Law, Yale law professor …

In this remarkable inquiry into the bases of social theory, Gordon L. Clark argues that the
heterogeneous nature of our society, with its pluralism of values, causes the rules of social …

Introduction Community justice practitioners argue that the justice system has long ignored
its biggest clients—citizens and neighborhoods that suffer the everyday consequences of …

Stories about law and social change can have a sameness to them. Yet in many ways, the
tales told in this volume stand out from the crowd. Each story is shaped around a campaign …

Like its predecessors, the 9th Edition focuses on the critical roles played by states and local
governments and the complex structure of our state-local system. It challenges students to …

What role should lawyers play in broader movements for social change? Can progressive
lawyers use the law to restructure deeply ingrained political and economic relationships and …

Local courts are, by far, the most commonly used courts in our justice system. Cases filed in
local courts outnumber those filed in federal court by a factor of over two hundred. Few …

Participants in the debate over suburban sprawl regularly refer to" home rule," by which they
mean the autonomy that state law supposedly now confers on cities and suburbs …