The Fordham Urban Law Journal addresses policy issues affecting urban areas. The Journal is Fordham Law School's second oldest publication. The Fordham Urban Law Journal is the fourth most cited student-edited specialty journal of the more than 400 specialty journals in the country.
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Current Issue: Volume 51, Number 4 (2024) Raising the Bar: Local Governments as Labor and Employment Innovators
Articles
How Local Government Can Protect Workers’ Rights Even When States Do Not Want Them To: Opportunities for Local Creativity and Persistence despite Double Preemption
Terri Gerstein and LiJia Gong
How Local Paid Sick Time Innovations —And the COVID-19 Pandemic —Have Shaped a Growing Paid Leave Movement across the United States
Sherry Leiwant, Jared Make, and Elena Rodriguez Anderson
“Let Us Work, Man”: Asserting Rights to Employment for Individuals with Conviction Histories in Austin, Texas
Elissa Underwood Marek
Editorials
Protecting Workers as Consumers and Consumers from Workers in New York City
Louis Cholden-Brown
The Right to Stable Employment: Lessons from the U.S. Virgin Islands
Anthony M. Ciolli
Response or Comment
In Pursuit of Meaningful Civil Representation: Advocacy Strategy Proposals for an Integrated Civil Gideon and Legal Empowerment Approach
Sophia T. Slater