This Colloquium goes to the heart of what our legal system is all about; that our society is not ready to address such crucial issues is troublesome, and very damning.

However, when the resources provide dare not adequate to allow the system to fulfill its constitutional obligation to provide competent representation, the government's desire to economize, no matter how understandable, must be constrained.

Throughout the development of the public education system in this country, the Supreme Court, Congress, and the American majority have supported the power and right of the public schools to serve a socialization function.

Replacing the constitutionally mandated requirement of probable cause with a reasonableness standard subject to wide interpretation is especially dangerous where aright as fundamental as privacy is at stake.

Avoiding both the due process and the cruel and unusual punishment analyses, the Court held that such action violates the fourth amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Although rule 68 will undoubtedly have harsh consequences in somecases, and although Marek has given more leverage to defendants than to plaintiffs, the Supreme Court's construction of the rule ought to encourage defendants to make generous rule 68 offers relatively

For me, the criminalization of homosexuality is, at bottom, a grievous harm to the spiritual lives of people who deserve more from their constitutional traditions than unjust contempt. Constitutional privacy affords the remedy for this wrong. It is time that

Notwithstanding Supreme Court decisions which assert that capital punishment is now administered fairly, the plain truth is that the process is administered unfairly in a tremendous number of cases.