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Dealing with Racist Patients
No full textKimani Paul-Emile, Professor of Law, Associate Director and Head of Domestic Programs and Initiatives at Fordham Law School\u27s Center on Race, Law & Justice, and faculty co-director of the Fordham Law School Stein Center for Law & Ethics, discusses the legal and ethical issues that arise when patients refuse care based on a treating physician\u27s race or ethnic background
HB 479: Repeal of Georgia\u27s Citizen\u27s Arrest Law
Get PDFThe Act revises private arrest powers and repeals the Georgia Citizen’s Arrest Law in its entirety. The Act provides certain arresting powers for law enforcement officers when acting outside of their jurisdiction. In addition, the Act clarifies detention powers for shopkeepers of retail, food service establishments, and other business entities under certain circumstances
A Policy Agenda for Addressing the Homeless Problem
Get PDFWhile the past 40 years has ushered in a period of improved urban real estate development and values, it has also been a time of decreased housing affordability and increased homelessness. The Agenda for Building a Changing World Responsibly needs to include improved housing assistance and affordability policies. This article outlines an agenda for housing assistance and affordability policies at both the federal and local urban jurisdiction levels. Their implementation will collectively help build a changing world responsibly
Saving the World through Zoning: The Sustainable Development Code, Regeneration, and Beyond
Get PDFThe land use and planning community began to address sustainability at the local level in the 1990s, but in reality, state-of-the-art development codes drafted in the 1990s and early 2000s did little to address climate change, energy conservation, community health, loss of biodiversity, shifting biochemical cycles, racial justice, food supply, and other key sustainability issues. This article reviews past challenges that had to be overcome for sustainable development codes to become mainstream. The good news is that an increasing number of local governments are adopting ambitious sustainable development codes that hold great promise to not only protect the environment and society but to encourage and facilitate regeneration of the environment and address past social inequities and injustices
Rebuilding Common Purpose for the 21st Century with New Civic Infrastructure
Get PDFIncreasing polarization and division are the greatest challenges to the U.S. today, because they prevent cooperation in decision making about growing problems of major consequence. The related long swing in rising individualism is assessed for how it undermines common purpose. We survey the ideological divide and how it intersects with preferred urban development patterns, negotiation styles (compromise or hard line), and diverse views on mitigations for stemming the COVID-19 pandemic. An especially potent factor was rapidly changing racial projections, the reckless framing of which led to exaggerated perceptions of “demographic threat” and a widened partisan divide. Renewed civic infrastructure is needed for public communication that spans diverse groups to build shared understanding and new sense of common purpose. A broad suite of strategies is identified at different interpersonal scales of interaction and engagement for narrowing the divide. The overarching strategy redirects attention to commonalities and hopeful outlooks, instead of spotlighting festering division for sensational news or to promote separate interests via wedge issues. Solutions involve narrative construction and rhetorical devices for highlighting interest connections and shared benefits, as well as structured small group meetings for humanizing opponents, taking small steps toward finding common ground, and building small bridges toward mutual understanding. These endeavors seek to build social capital for further strengthening shared middle ground in other deliberations that may follow
