Equal Protection and a Deaf Person's Right to Serve as a Juror
Article seeks to show deaf people are equally as competent to serve on a juror as any other person, and the idea they are not is unsupported.
The Review: Volume 17
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Issue 1
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- Equal Protection and a Deaf Person's Right to Serve as a Juror
- The Political Economy of the Dormant Commerce Clause
- Permitting Prejudice to Govern: Equal Protection, Military Deference, and the Exclusion of Lesbians and Gay Men from the Military
- A Judge Shapes and Manages Institutional Reform: School Desegregation in Buffalo
Issue 2
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Issue 3
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Issue 4
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- The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988: New Strategies for New Procedures
- The Remedies Gap: Compensation and Implementation under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act
- Damage Actions as a Strategy for Enhancing the Quality of Care of Persons with Mental Disabilities
- Helping the Mute to Speak: The Availability of Augmentative Communication Devices under Medicaid
In Depth Reading
Volume 17 Issue 1
A Judge Shapes and Manages Institutional Reform: School Desegregation in Buffalo
A judge's role in the desegregation of Buffalo's schools after Brown presents an example for a new role of the judiciary in institutional reform cases.
The Political Economy of the Dormant Commerce Clause
The Court should rethink its commerce clause jurisprudence to better align with modem economic realities already recognized by the Court's other decisions.
Permitting Prejudice to Govern: Equal Protection, Military Deference, and the Exclusion of Lesbians and Gay Men from the Military
Exluding lesbians and gay men from the military is unconstitutional, and courts are not required by their deference to the military to allow the discrimination.
Volume 17 Issue 2
Subcontracting and the Duty to Bargain
Industry practice reveals that subcontracting must be considered a mandatory subject of collective bargaining, despite the Court's relaxtion of this duty.
Charles Dickens Meets Franz Kafka: The Maladministration of New York City's Public Assistance Programs
In recent years, the increased denial of benefits to people who are "eligible" for pubilc assitance has had devestating effects, and reforms are neccessary.
Colorblindness and Context
Unfortunately the command for racial neutrality in the law follows a two-century history of racism and its consequences for racial minorities today.
Treating Physician Rule: Morgan Presumption in Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income Cases, The
One way to aid Social Security disability claimants is to enforce the recent articulation of the Treating Physician Rule as a Morgan evidentiary presumption.
Volume 17 Issue 3
Federal Welfare Reform in Light of the California Experience: Early Lessons for State Implementation of the Jobs Program
Suggestions states can take to avail themselves of the Family Support Act's opportunities and to avoid its pitfalls, using a California program as an example.
Legal Text and Lawyers' Culture in South Africa
An examination of the use of law in South Africa during Apartheid to control the black majority, and how conflict shaped the law and legal cutlure.
An Examination of Comparatively Excessive Death Sentences in South Carolina 1979-1987
The theory and practice of proportionality review in South Carolina offers inadequate protection against disproportionate death sentences.
Women and AIDS--Racism, Sexism, and Classism
This Article focuses on the reproductive freedom issues that arise in the context of AIDS and HIV infection in pregnant women and women of childbearing age.
Volume 17 Issue 4
Representation of Clients with Disabilities: Issues of Ethics and Control
This Article analyzes ways to further client-centered legal representationof clients with mental disabilities.
The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988: New Strategies for New Procedures
This article provides guidance to those representing litigants in housing discrimination matters to negotiate the procedural choices provided by the FHAA.
Damage Actions as a Strategy for Enhancing the Quality of Care of Persons with Mental Disabilities
Exploration of the reasons behind the historic lack of traditional damage remedies on behalf of those with mental disabilities.
Helping the Mute to Speak: The Availability of Augmentative Communication Devices under Medicaid
Examination of the availability of and the proper standard for providing augmentative communication devices under Medicaid.