Albany Law School

Prof. Brescia was previously Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Albany Law School. His recent publications address the sub-prime mortgage crises and legal housing issues. Before coming to Albany Law, he was the Associate Director of the Urban Justice Center in New York, N.Y., where he coordinated legal representation for community-based institutions in areas such as housing, economic justice, workers' rights, civil rights and environmental justice. He also served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School from 1997 through 2006. Prior to his work at the Urban Justice Center, he was a staff attorney at New Haven Legal Assistance and the Legal Aid Society of New York, where he was a recipient of a Skadden Fellowship after graduation from law school. He also served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Constance Baker Motley, Senior U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York. While a student Yale Law School, Professor Brescia was co-recipient of the Charles Albom Prize for Appellate Advocacy; was a student director of several clinics, including the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic and the Homelessness Clinic; and was Visiting Lecturer in Yale College.

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This page provides the data support for The Iqbal Effect: The Impact of New Pleading Standards in Employment and Housing Discrimination Litigation, 100 Kentucky Law Journal 235 (2012).

For this article, two data bases of cases were compiled.  The first data base, a zip file constructed in the data management program SPSS, includes all of the cases reviewed and included in the analysis in the article.  A description of the categories and coding used in the data base is available here.  You must have SPSS installed on your computer to access this data base and review it.

The second data base, a PDF file, includes all of the cases that were excluded from the review. 

For all inquiries, please contact the author at rbres@albanylaw.edu.

To review other articles by Raymond H. Brescia, please consult his author page on the Social Science Research Network.

The Politics of Procedure: An Empirical Analysis of Motion Practice in Civil Rights Litigation under the New Plausibility Standard, Akron Law Review (forthcoming)

The Community Reinvestment Act: Guilty, but Not as Charged, St. John's Law Review (forthcoming)

Scoring the Banks: Building a Behaviorally Informed Community Impact Report Card For Financial Institutions, with Sonia Steinway, 18 Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law (forthcoming 2012)

When Cities Sue: The Standing of Municipalities in Nuisance Litigation to Combat Climate Change, chapter in GREENING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: LEGAL STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING SUSTAINABILITY, EFFICIENCY, AND FISCAL SAVINGS, K. Hirokawa & P. Salkin, eds., American Bar Association, 2012

The Iqbal Effect: The Impact of New Pleadings Standards in Employment and Housing Discrimination Litigation, 100 Kentucky Law Journal 235 (2012).
Data Support for "The Iqbal Effect"

Crisis Management: Strategies for the Disposition of Federally Owned and Foreclosed Homes, 45 Indiana Law Review 305 (2012)

Leverage: State Enforcement Actions in the Wake of the Robo-Sign Scandal, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 38 (2010)

The Cost of Inequality: Social Distance, Predatory Conduct, and the Financial Crisis, 66 NYU Annual Survey of American Law 641 (2010)

On Public Plaintiffs and Private Harms: the Standing of Municipalities in Climate Change, Firearms and Financial Crsis Litigation, 24 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 7 (2010)

Line in the Sand: Progressive Lawyering, 'Master Communities', and a Battle for Affordable Housing in New York City, 73 Albany Law Review 715 (2010) 

Tainted Loans: The Value of a Mass Torts Approach in Subprime Mortgage Litigation, 78 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1 (2009)

Trust in the Shadows: Law, Behavior, and Financial Re-Regulation, 57 Buffalo Law Review 1361 (2009)

A CRA for the 21st Century: Congress Considers the Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009, 28 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report 1 (October 2009)

Beyond Balls and Strikes: Towards a Problem-Solving Ethic in Foreclosure Proceedings, 59 Case Western Reserve Law Review 305 (2009)

Part of the Disease or Part of the Cure: The Financial Crisis and the Community Reinvestment Act, 60 University of South Carolina Law Review 617 (2009)

Subprime Communities: Reverse Redlining, the Fair Housing Act and Emerging Issues in Litigation Regarding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, 2 Albany Government Law Review 164 (2009)

Sheltering Counsel: Towards a Right to Counsel in Eviction Proceedings, 24 Touro Law Review 187 (2008)

Capital in Chaos: The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Social Capital Response, 56 Cleveland State Law Review 271 (2008)

Who's in Charge Anyway? A Proposal for Community-Based Legal Services, 25 Fordham Urban Law Journal 831 (1998) (with Robert Solomon and Robin Golden) 

Procedural Justice and International Human Rights: Towards a Procedural Jurisprudence for Human Rights Tribunals, 18 Yale Journal of International Law 559 (1993) (with Gates Garrity-Rokous)

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