Fairness in Immigration Proceedings
Discusses the shift in immigration deportation proceedings within the span of 80 years and the climate of immigration courts.
The Review: Volume 16
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Fairness in Immigration Proceedings
- Defending the Rights of the Undocumented: A Challenge to the Civil Rights Movement and Local Governments
- Implementation and Impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986: Who Carries the Burden of the Bill
- Cold Winds from the North: An Analysis of Recent Shifts in North American Refugee Policy
Issue 2
featuring
- Parratt v. Taylor: Unauthorized Deprivations and the Content of an Adequate Remedy
- Pregnancy Police: The Health Policy and Legal Implications of Punishing Pregnant Women for Harm to Their Fetuses
- Undermining Congressional Oversight of Covert Intelligence Operations: The Reagan Administration Secretly Arms Iran
Issue 3
featuring
- The Misadventures of State Postconviction Remedies
- The Right to Counsel after Kuhlmann v. Wilson: Deliberate Elicitation or Interrogation
- Sandbagging Constitutional Rights: Federal Habeas Corpus and the Procedural Default Principle
- Alien Status Restrictions on Eligibility for Federally Funded Assistance Programs
Issue 4
featuring
- Child Support for Welfare Families: Family Policy Trapped in Its Own Rhetoric
- Income Deeming in the AFDC Program: Using Dual Track Family Law to Make Poor Women Poorer
- Squatting in New York City: Justification and Strategy
- Administrative Closings of Public Assistance Cases: The Rise of Hunger and Homelessness in New York City
In Depth Reading
Volume 16 Issue 1
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.
Cold Winds from the North: An Analysis of Recent Shifts in North American Refugee Policy
Traces refugee policy in the U.S. and Canada, coming to the conclusion that such changes are ultimately not progress for providing refugees a safe haven.
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.
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
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.
The Misadventures of State Postconviction Remedies
Argues that potential federal habeas corpus petitioners should not be required to exhaust state postconviction remedies before applying for federal relief.
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.
Volume 16 Issue 4
Squatting in New York City: Justification and Strategy
Addresses the problem of squatting in NYC and how the many objections to squatting can be dismissed. It describes squatting campaigns like ACORN and MHANY.
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.
Colloquium
Index
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.