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December 04, 2009 |

Columbia University's Expansion Plan Hits Roadblock Over Eminent Domain

Columbia University's planned 17-acre expansion into the Manhattanville area of Harlem was derailed yesterday when the Appellate Division, First Department, in a 3-2 decision, upset a state ruling that would have allowed the condemnation of land for the school to develop the $6.3 billion project. The exercise of eminent domain power by the New York State Urban Development Corporation to benefit a "private elite education institution" violates the U.S. and New York state constitutions, and the "first principles of the social contract," Justice James M. Catterson wrote for the majority.
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October 15, 2004 |

From the Courthouse to the White House

I'll never forget the shock of disillusionment I felt the first time I read an international treaty. What I had imagined as august documents of war and peace, comity between nations, the elevated realm of national interests, statesmanship and realpolitik were just ... contracts. Opaque, turgid, stilted contracts, just like the ones I review every day (and, all too often, write).
8 minute read
April 24, 2009 |

International Environmental Law

examines the enforcement of environmental impact assessment mitigation commitments by international financial institutions and the European Union and then suggests three alternative approaches to improve both the monitoring and enforcement of those commitments and, by extension, the effectiveness of the EIA process.
13 minute read
December 07, 2006 |

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February 27, 2002 |

Deconstructing Service Level Agreements

ECHNOLOGY service agreements define the services to be provided, of course. Most go farther, and promise a specific level of performance and specific penalties if the promised level of services is not delivered (a service level agreement, or "SLA").
9 minute read
September 12, 2006 |

Law Firms See an Array of Fates After Sept. 11

In the five years since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, all sizes of law firms in New York have been picking themselves back up. Some law firms have returned to the downtown area, but many others have opted to start over in areas less scarred. Some, such as immigration solo H. Taufiq Choudhury, have faced bureaucratic red tape in re-establishing their practices, while others were able to return due to relatively low market rates and through federal and local incentive programs.
5 minute read
January 04, 2010 |

Movers

George Jordan III of Fulbright & Jaworski has been elected to the board of directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
3 minute read
October 11, 2007 |

Associates Class of 2007

The Law Journal's eighth annual magazine devoted to new associates at New Jersey law firms.
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