The Liberal Club and its Jamaican Secretary

Between 1913 and 1918 the New York Liberal Club in Greenwich Village was the chief gathering place for radicals, artists, bohemians, writers, and journalists, yet studies of it are patchy and repetitive. This essay adds to the archive the recently published memoir of the club's Jamaican secretary, casting new light on its 1913 move from Gramercy Park to McDougal Street

The Liberal Club and its Jamaican Secretary

Between 1913 and 1918 the New York Liberal Club in Greenwich Village was the chief gathering place for radicals, artists, bohemians, writers, and journalists, yet studies of it are patchy and repetitive. This essay adds to the archive the recently published memoir of the club's Jamaican secretary, casting new light on its 1913 move from Gramercy Park to McDougal Street

Walking Titanic\u27s Charity Trail in New York City: Part One, Gramercy Park and Madison Square Park

This article combines insights form travel writing, history, and urban studies to explore the social welfare milieu of early twentieth century New York City and its connection to disaster relief efforts for Titanic survivors in 1912

Parks, People, and Property Values: The Changing Role of Green Spaces in Antebellum Manhattan

The role that parks played in Manhattan changed dramatically during the antebellum period. Originally dismissed as unnecessary on an island embraced by rivers, parks became a tool for real estate development and gentrification in the 1830s. By the 1850s, politicians, journalists, and landscape architects believed Central Park could be a social salve for a city with rising crime rates, increasingly visible poverty, and deepening class divisions. While many factors (public health, the psychological need for parks, and property values) would remain the same, the changing social conversation showed how ideas of public space were transforming, in rhetoric if not reality

Tribunalizing Sovereign Debt: Argentina\u27s Experience with Investor-State Dispute Settlement

The global sovereign debt market, lacking a formal bankruptcy regime or binding regulatory oversight, is fundamentally shaped by the specter of conflicts between debtors that refuse to pay and holdout creditors that refuse to settle. Never was this more evident than in Argentina\u27s most recent sovereign debt crisis, which spurred daring, innovative, and often controversial legal strategies. This Article focuses on one of the legacies of Argentina\u27s sovereign debt crisis: the use of investor-state arbitration under international investment law to enforce sovereign bond contracts. Following Argentina\u27s financial collapse in 2001, private creditors brought dozens of cases against Argentina before the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Among these ICSID cases was Abaclat and Others v. The Argentine Republic, which marked the first time that an arbitral tribunal ruled that it had jurisdiction to rule on a sovereign debt default and restructuring under international investment law. With the proliferation of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms in bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and other international investment agreements, this remedy will likely grow in importance. In light of Abaclat and subsequent ICSID cases, this Article analyzes Argentina\u27s experience with sovereign debt claims under BITs in the broader context of sovereign debt disputes and ongoing measures undertaken by sovereigns in response to tribunalization. Looking forward, this Article assesses the systemic implications of ISDS for the exercise of sovereign authority in sovereign debt finance

Joseph Cummings Chase Correspondence

Entries include the typed biographical account of a portrait artist during and after a world war on personal stationery and letters of correspondence from the Maine State Library

Arts in the Hotel Industry: Bridging Creative and Financial Goals for a Twenty-First Century Experience

The hospitality landscape of cities has changed significantly in recent years: hotels are themselves destinations. The trend is to manage atmospheric interior yet not overwhelming the area with pieces. However, the fine line separating art and design has become increasingly blurry. This article will analyze the implications of displaying world-class contemporary art in hotels. In essence, art has the potential to transform the industry even further. It could even be said that exhibitions can be a boon to hotel business. Furthermore, this paper demonstrates that the emergence of boutique and life hotels will facilitate the movement of displaying artwork in hotels. In order to meet changing guest preferences, hoteliers seek innovative alternatives to traditional lodging products. Identifying specific target groups in accordance with specific hotel features is necessary to hoteliers so that they can confirm their market position. Bringing in museum quality art to the intimate environments offered by hotels will give rise to a new hotel-as-gallery phenomenon. As the hotel industry utilizes the arts as a marketing tool, the face of art will change as well. Art can benefit hotels, as hotels can benefit art

Marguerite Vance Correspondence

Entries include brief biographical information, a typed letter from Vance during a New York change of residence on personal stationery concerning a house where she had lived in Lincolnville, Maine, and the real boy about whom her story Jeptha and the New People was written -- before Vance moved back to New York City, a lengthy typed biography of Vance on News About Books and Authors stationery from the E.P. Dutton Publicity Department describing Vance\u27s progress from the Children\u27s Book Department of the Dutton 5th Avenue bookstore to her change of position as an editor of Children\u27s Books at Dutton, a typed letter from Vance on Christmas Day of 1960 in hopes of attaining facts for a book she would like to write concerning what was perhaps a nonfictional tale Vance had heard about in Rockport, Maine, and typed letters of book presentation from director Helen Ward and Barbette Thompson of the Library and Education Department on E.P. Dutton Company, Inc., Publishers stationery

Cardozo Law News Brief: July 13, 2018

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