Discussion on Post-Sentencing Strategies: The Politics of Prison Construction
Discussion as part of the colloquium on the prison over crowding crisis.
Discussion as part of the colloquium on the prison over crowding crisis.
Discussion on The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation as part of the colloquium on the prison overcrowding crisis.
Examination of the political and legal processes of prison expansion; proposal for how important decisions should be made by key stakeholders
Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
Tracks the development of selective incapacitation as an alternative sentencing procedure; argues for rejection because its impossible to predict dangerousness.
Examines ways the law can ensure democratic governance in the internal affairs of unions
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.
Disparate treatment of child welfare laws and the impact of the psychological parenting theory on poor nonwhite families.
Discussion of the impact on child welfare law and policy of seminal works arguing for less state intervention in removing children from functional families.
Explanation of the psychological dimensions of child and parent; argument that privacy of family should be protected, and child's rights should be paramount
Discussion of private adoption in New York; it is unfair, unconstitutional to terminate parental rights for one who has given extrajudicial consent.