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State Air Pollution Control Boards
Full text linkIntroduction: By its nature the air pollution problem presents a suitable framework for an analysis of the concept of interest. Air pollution is a complex social and political problem as well as a complex scientific and technological one. This article will attempt to determine if the concept of interest is a concept through which satisfactory solutions to complex problems maybe derived. It is around the concept of interest that many of our legal institutions are created. In addition, interest and combination of interests are used to explain and predict social change. Lawyers often see their role solely as the representatives of interests. This article will explore the effectiveness of legal institutions organized about the concept of interest by analyzing the development, composition, and functioning of a particular set of legal institutions created to respond to the air pollution problem: state air pollution control boards
The Threat to Citizen Participation in Model Cities
Full text linkCitizen participation has been advocated as an essential feature of urban antipoverty programs. Ideally, such participation can serve both individual and societal goals. It can provide self-realization and develop personal competence in participants. It can also promote substantively better decisions for government, integrate alienated groups into the governmental process, make government more visible, and gain consent and confidence for a program from the citizenry. All too often, however, bureaucracy has retained a great deal of control over the participatory aspects of governmental programs. The resultant overregulation has stifled the potentially creative role that citizens might have played and destroyed program credibility. There are indications that this is now happening in the Model Cities Program funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). History can forewarn us of the dangers that program now faces
Creating a Community Process of Land Development for Urban Growth
Full text linkThree centuries before Christ, Aristotle postulated that an essential element of a stable democracy is the presence of a landholding middle class-a group of citizens having an intrinsic interest in the effective functioning of the state. He perceived that a home is more than just shelter; it provides the individual with an interest in the success of the commonwealth. This theory takes on special importance today as the press of urban living presents a serious challenge to the ability of our present system to provide adequate living conditions for our citizenry. At present, our population is 205 million; it will double in the next 40 to 60 years. This influx, under present growth patterns, will seek to settle in an area described by census statisticians as urban.\u27\u27 In 1960, 70 percent of our population was urban; by 1980, it will be 80 percent. It is suburbia, where most of our urban residents presently reside, that will absorb the preponderance of this increase. With these multitudes will come the problem of congestion, adequate education, transportation, air and water pollution, recreational facilities, unemployment, crime, taxation, and racial strife. Assuming we could provide shelter for our increasing population, what kind of life would they lead
A Compleat Lawyer
Full text linkGeorge D. Horning, Jr., Professor Emeritus of The Washington College of Law of The American University, is the compleat lawyer
A Legislative History of the Property Rights in Inventions Provisions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Washington College of Law Graduating Class of 1928
No full textWashington College of Law graduating class of 1928 proudly pose for their class picture. Dean Riley conferred the degree of Bachelor of Laws upon 52 members of the Class of 1928. Six candidates received the degree of Master of Patent Law, and two received their Master of Laws degree.
To this our school happy greetings we bring, And soon goodbye and farewell we will sing. Memories of days we have passed, In our school home here will last, The most things fade very fast.
As the year pass by perhaps some name Of this class of \u2728 will gain much fame. We have tried to learn and so This one thing we surly know That seed planted here will grow.https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/heritage/1003/thumbnail.jp
In Memoriam Emma Gillett
No full textThe College Grit, published by the undergraduates of the Washington College of Law, in its edition of February 1, 1927, announces the death of Dean Emeritus, Emma M. Gillet on January 23, 1927.https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/heritage/1002/thumbnail.jp
K Street Building
No full textThe Washington College of Law initially held its first law classes in the offices of Mrs. Mussey and Miss Gillett, the school\u27s founders. Fund-raising efforts by students and faculty enabled the Washington College of Law to purchase its first permanent home in 1920. Its new residence was the former home of philosopher Robert Ingersoll at 1315 K Street NW in Washington, DC. Soon, the Law School outgrew the entire building, and in 1924 purchased the spacious and elegant building at 2000 G Street NW, where it remained for the next 28 years. The K Street building was later razed, and today the Sphinx Club at Almas Temple occupies the land.https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/heritage/1005/thumbnail.jp