Keynote Address
Address on the landscape of meaningful racial reform.
The Review: Volume 12
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In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Prison Overcrowding Crisis--Introduction, The
Introduction of keynote speaker Judge Morris Lasker
Discussion on Institutional Litigation in the Post-Chapman World
Discussion on the panel and replies to Susan N. Herman's paper Institutional Litigation in the Post-Chapman World.
Response to Post-Sentencing Strategies: The Politics of Prison Construction
Response to panel on post-sentencing strategies.
Volume 12 Issue 2
Title I and Union Democracy
Examines ways the law can ensure democratic governance in the internal affairs of unions
Selective Incapacitation and the Justifications for Imprisonment
Tracks the development of selective incapacitation as an alternative sentencing procedure; argues for rejection because its impossible to predict dangerousness.
Differentiating Sex from Sex: The Male Irresistible Impulse
The male sexual impulse is a means for courts to find that men and women are not similarly situated; application of this principle in different areas of the law.
Volume 12 Issue 3
Psychological Parenting vs. Attachment Theory: The Child's Best Interests and the Risks in Doing the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons
Discussion of the controversial nature of psychoanalytic view of parent-child relationships; suggests it is an incorrect theory that generates proper outcomes
Solnit/Fanshel Discussion
Critical exchange between Drs. Solnit and Fanshel regarding theoretical underpinnings of child welfare law
The Constitutional Rights of Natural Parents Under New York's Adoption Statutes
Discussion of private adoption in New York; it is unfair, unconstitutional to terminate parental rights for one who has given extrajudicial consent.
Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
Analysis of child welfare legal frameworks and their failure to incorporate non-nuclear family kinship structures and cultural nuances