Immigration Reform: Rights for America's Undocumented: Keynote Address
Keynote address from the colloquium discussing the need for immigration reform and steps, both proposed and actual, taken to effect change.
The Review: Volume 16
Preview
Issue 1
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Issue 2
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- Pregnancy Police: The Health Policy and Legal Implications of Punishing Pregnant Women for Harm to Their Fetuses
- Parratt v. Taylor: Unauthorized Deprivations and the Content of an Adequate Remedy
- Undermining Congressional Oversight of Covert Intelligence Operations: The Reagan Administration Secretly Arms Iran
Issue 3
featuring
- Restricting Access to Federal Habeas Corpus: Justice Sacrificed on the Altars of Expediency, Federalism and Deterrence
- The Right to Counsel after Kuhlmann v. Wilson: Deliberate Elicitation or Interrogation
- Alien Status Restrictions on Eligibility for Federally Funded Assistance Programs
- The Misadventures of State Postconviction Remedies
Issue 4
featuring
- Squatting in New York City: Justification and Strategy
- The Transformation of Aid to Families with Dependent Children: The Family Support Act in Historical Context
- The Antinomies of Poverty Law and a Theory of Dialogic Empowerment
- Mobilization on the Margins of the Lawsuit: Making Space for Clients to Speak
In Depth Reading
Volume 16 Issue 1
Unions and the New Immigration Law
Transcript of panel discussion presenting different views about the impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 on labor unions and their members.
Defending the Rights of the Undocumented: A Challenge to the Civil Rights Movement and Local Governments
Analyses discriminatory practises against immigrants based on race and national origin, with special reference to undocumented immigrants.
The Right of Undocumented Workers to Reinstatement and Back Pay in Light of Sure-Tan, Felbro, and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Discusses impact of IRCA on undocumented workers; legislation to restrict immigrant workers is ineffective and misguided.
Volume 16 Issue 2
Undermining Congressional Oversight of Covert Intelligence Operations: The Reagan Administration Secretly Arms Iran
Discusses covert arms sales and the violation of Title V of the National Securities Act, 1947 and executive privilege in intelligence matters.
Parratt v. Taylor: Unauthorized Deprivations and the Content of an Adequate Remedy
Analyses actions by the state, whether remedies can be obtained from a federal court and the due process implications of the same.
Pregnancy Police: The Health Policy and Legal Implications of Punishing Pregnant Women for Harm to Their Fetuses
Analyses sanctions to pregnant women for any harm they may cause to their unborn children. Analyses a subjective and objective health policy standard.
Volume 16 Issue 3
Restricting Access to Federal Habeas Corpus: Justice Sacrificed on the Altars of Expediency, Federalism and Deterrence
Critical analysis of the limited acces to federal habeas corpus by state prisoners with reference to proposed legislations and their impact on this issue.
Sandbagging Constitutional Rights: Federal Habeas Corpus and the Procedural Default Principle
Discussion on finality of criminal proceedings and the shrinking scope of habeas corpus. Addresses the issue of possible procedural reform.
Alien Status Restrictions on Eligibility for Federally Funded Assistance Programs
Analyzes changes to the IRCA and compares them with restrictions on aliens eligibility for federally funded assistance programs.
The Right to Counsel after Kuhlmann v. Wilson: Deliberate Elicitation or Interrogation
Analysis of the right to cousel following miranda warnings and the ambiguity between deliberate elicitation and interrogation.
Volume 16 Issue 4
Administrative Closings of Public Assistance Cases: The Rise of Hunger and Homelessness in New York City
Analyses the problem of restricted public assistance programs due to bureaucratic hurdles in NYC. [Abstract only]
The Antinomies of Poverty Law and a Theory of Dialogic Empowerment
Examines the perception of poverty law. Posits that it is vindicated, not when lawyers effect change through litigation, but by empowering the poor.
Litigation Strategies for Addressing Bureaucratic Disentitlement
An analyses of statutory rights aimed at providing welfare that are stymied by bureaucratic processes rendering those rights virtually useless.
Mobilization on the Margins of the Lawsuit: Making Space for Clients to Speak
Exploration of welfare litigation to further education and mobilization the poor.