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The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service is proud to announce the publication of Volume 6. This volume features: Putting Social Change in Perspective: An Editor’s Note for Volume 6 by Zachary Hale Arkansas’s Manufactured Incarceration Crisis: How Policymakers Made Arkansas the Fastest Growing Prison State in the United States.  by Omavi Shukur

The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service is proud announce our two newest members: 2L Simon Kelly and 1L Ashleigh Creed. Simon is a second year law student from Kentucky and President of the Student Veterans Organization. He and his wife moved to Little Rock in 2016, so he could study law at … The Journal Welcomes New Members

John M. Burman* “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”[1] The title to this article is based on a book called FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt]’s Splendid Deception, a story about the extent of FDR’s disability, and how he and the media combined to deceive the American electorate about FDR’s disability.[2]  The quotation is from an opinion … Overcoming the Disability Deceptions

Robert Steinbuch* Law schools—particularly those struggling to stay above water under contemporary economic challenges and the changing dynamics in legal education—should act in conformity with the ethical rules that govern lawyers. The professional rules of legal ethics require attorneys to act with full candor towards a court.[1] In litigation, this not only means that lawyers … Law Schools Should Stop Misleading Prospective Students in Pursuit of their Desperately Sought Tuition Dollars

David R. Lurie* and Robert Steinbuch** I. INTRODUCTION The nuclear deal that President Obama has struck with the theocratic dictatorship of Iran will dramatically reverse policies of the United States toward that regime, as reflected in legislation enacted over several years by bipartisan votes in Congress. First, while the Congress has committed the U.S. to … Retrofitting a Bad Deal: Congress’s Ability, and Responsibility, to Cure Defects in the Iran Deal

Joshua M. Silverstein* The use of race-based affirmative action (RBAA) in higher education admissions remains a controversial political and legal issue.  In fact, the United States Supreme Court recently agreed to hear yet another case in which the plaintiff contends that RBAA at public universities is unconstitutional.  Accordingly, now is an opportune time to revisit … Corrective Justice, Reparations, and Race-Based Affirmative Action

Dr. Yang Luo-Branch* I.      INTRODUCTION Many Little Rock residents perceive the area around the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (“UALR”) campus as decayed, dangerous, and threatening to the long-term growth of UALR and the surrounding area of Little Rock. While validating the civic perception, this paper examines the actual crime rate in the area … Becoming an In-Town Destination: Urban Planning and Placemaking Approaches for Improving Urban Safety around the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Campus

By Michael S. Yoder, Ph.D* Abstract. Small cities in Arkansas overall exhibit a lower density of commercial and residential land uses than the norm for American Sunbelt metropolitan areas. The results include highly inefficient traffic patterns that prioritize lengthy high-velocity roads over compact grids, linear real estate development along such thoroughfares, and an amplification of … The Sprawling of Small Cities of Arkansas: The Case for Sustainable Urban Planning

By Abigail Niehaus* “’Re-homing is not regulated; there’s no legal framework to address it. It’s mostly an underground affair.’”[1] “Re-homing” is when adoptive parents post an advertisement on the internet (usually on a message board or group site) to give away their adopted child to a stranger. Re-homing is just one of the major problems … The Underground Market of Internationally Adopted Children: Re-homing and Questioning the Practice of International Adoption

by Westley Ashley At a very young age, I knew I was adopted. My parents felt it was important to be honest with me about that fact, but at the same time, it was obvious. My parents are “black” Americans; they have darker skin tones and their hair is kinkier than my own; I am … Reconsidering the Presumption: A Proposal to Provide Arkansas’s Adult Adoptees Open Access to their Original Birth Records