Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Sophomoric humor at the expense of racial or cultural minorities has enormous opportunity to bring disrepute to fraternal organizations whose members engage in it.  Such was the case when the Sigma Chi Chapter at John...

Dan McCarthy, Manley Burke Many of the most common and important topics discussed in Fraternal Law have all surfaced recently at the University of Colorado in Boulder.  The very real potential consequences of hazing and alcohol abuse were once again...

Matthew Steele Private-public partnerships to redevelop and revitalize neighborhoods are being forged in almost every American community today.  In particular, colleges and universities are joining with municipal and state governments and private developers to revitalize neighborhoods adjoining campuses as part...

Elizabeth Hutton At numerous universities across the country, heated conflicts have arisen between universities that have adopted nondiscrimination policies and fraternal and other organizations that on the one hand wish to restrict membership to those who hold specific religious beliefs...

Dan McCarthy, Manley Burke The City University of New York, College of Staten Island (“CSI”) recently appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals the August 11, 2006 opinion from the United States District Court that granted the Chi Iota...

Dan McCarthy & Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Despite the virtually universal effort of national and international Greek organizations to ban hazing and to discipline members who engage in it, periodic reports of hazing activities continue.  With the constant turnover...