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Nurturing a More Just and Sustainable Food System: The First Year of Pace Law\u27s Food and Beverage Law Clinic
This article looks back at the Clinic\u27s first year and explores lessons learned in putting the theory behind the Clinic\u27s model into practice. Launching the Clinic required a leap of faith. Was there in fact a client demand for its services? Was there sufficient interest from law students in the intersection of transactional law and food systems? Was the scope of legal matters too broad? Was the client focus too narrow? The early returns from the first year have given us valuable insights and experience from which to draw. First, this article discusses the unmet legal need the Clinic seeks to address and the choices that went into the Clinic\u27s approach to client selection. Second, it discusses student interest in food law practice and describes the Clinic\u27s pedagogical approach. Third, it assesses the value of direct transactional legal services for food and beverage businesses as an organizing principle for a law school clinic and a legal practice
Representation theory of rectangular finite -algebras
We classify the finite dimensional irreducible representations of rectangular
finite -algebras, i.e., the finite -algebras where
is a symplectic or orthogonal Lie algebra and is a nilpotent element with Jordan blocks all the same size.Comment: 34 page
Beyond Corporate Form: A Response to Dan Depasquale, Surbhi Sarang, and Natalie Bump Venaâs Forging Food Justice Through Cooperatives in New York City
In their article, Forging Food Justice Through Cooperatives in New York City, Dan DePasquale, Surbhi Sarang, and Natalie Bump Vena (the âAuthorsâ) argue that consumer-owned and worker-owned cooperatives hold promise as a means for advancing policy objectives associated with âfood justice,â namely building community wealth and power and providing more affordable access to healthy food in low-income and minority communities. Looking to examples of legislation and policies in other jurisdictions, they advocate for a wide range of policies to promote the viability of cooperatives in New York City, including reforms to cooperative corporation laws and strategies for better allocating funding and technical assistance to cooperatives.
I largely agree with the Authorsâ argument and support their effort to identify practical policy solutions that would help food cooperatives in New York City overcome barriers to success. This Response makes three observations about their proposals. First, this Response observes that food access and economic development are distinct objectives and that consumer and worker cooperatives may have different roles to play in food justice strategies depending on how these objectives are defined and prioritized. Second, the significance of cooperative corporation statutes may be overstated, both because a variety of legal entity forms are available to cooperative organizations (mitigating the impact of potential reforms to New Yorkâs cooperative corporation law) and because the legal form itself does not guarantee adoption of many of the values and principles commonly associated with cooperatives. Third, this Response argues that the role of other, non-cooperative organizational models should not be overlooked in shaping policy in this area. This Response advocates for a more comprehensive strategy that promotes a wide range of community-based businesses and organizations, including but not limited to cooperatives, and that allocates resources according to the identity of organizationsâ stakeholders and the degree of their community impact, rather than relying on their legal form
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Elementary invariants for centralizers of nilpotent matrices
We construct an explicit set of algebraically independent generators for the
center of the universal enveloping algebra of the centralizer of a nilpotent
matrix in the Lie algebra gl_N(C). In particular, this gives a new proof of the
freeness of the center, a result first proved by Panyushev, Premet and Yakimova
(math.RT/0610049).Comment: 12 page
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