Editor’s Preface – Vol. 78, No. 4 (Winter 2023)
By Dalia Fuleihan As the New Year approaches, we may feel called to reflect on the past year. 2022 has been a turbulent year with many dramatic events with far reaching implications—war in Ukraine, setbacks in abortion rights, continued violence against marginalized communities, the midterm elections, and a controversial World Cup hosted in Qatar, to [...]
A Carefully Selected Tenancy: Public Housing and Racial Segregation in New York City
By David Leeds David Leeds graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center with exceptional pro bono pledge recognition in 2022 and is currently the Region II Legal Honors fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Professor Sheryll D. Cashin, Diane Lee, and the rest of [...]
Book Review: No Equal Justice: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett
Book by Edward J. Littlejohn and Peter J. Hammer Review by David Gesspass David Gespass has been on the editorial board of the National Lawyers Guild Review for over twenty-years including several years as Editor in Chief. He is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. David is doing his best to retire from [...]
Promoting Justice During Union Organizing: The Persuader Rule
By Jeffrey P. Nieznanski Jeffrey P. Nieznanski is a supervising attorney at Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc. and co-chairs the Monroe County Bar Association Elder Law Committee. Prior to his legal career, he was a union representative in Washington, D.C. and Rochester, N.Y. https://www.nlg.org/nlg-review/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Persuader-Rule.pdf
Book Review: Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s, by Luca Falciola
Book by Luca Falciola Review by Dalia Fuleihan Dalia Fuleihan is Editor in Chief of the National Lawyers Guild Review and an immigration attorney with Scott D. Pollock & Associates, P.C., in Chicago, IL. She maintains a general immigration practice with emphasis on asylum, removal defense, and family-based immigration. She has been a member of [...]