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Professor Valerie Hans discusses the importance of jury representativeness and how even with some of the best practices in the country, some New York counties have a wide discrepancy between the racial makeup of their communities and the racial makeup of those who actually serve on the jury.
Introduction The law of eminent domain in New York is an area characterized by its lack of clarity. How cities and municipal corporations operate within the limitation imposed by the phrase “public use” is a particularly complicated area. Recently, they have begun to assert a more expansive interpretation of this phrase, following the national trend