Racism and Retrenchment in Capital Sentencing: Judicial and Congressional Haste toward the Ultimate Injustice
Analysis of the racial bias of the death penalty andr access to post-conviction appellate review for death-row prisoners.
The Review: Volume 18
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Reclaiming a Public Resource: The Constitutionality of Requiring Broadcasters to Provide Free Television Advertising Time to Candidates for Federal Office
- Confronting a New Obstacle to Reproductive Choice: Encouraging the Development of RU-486 through Reform of Products Liability Law
- Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution
- The Supreme Court and Daily Life: Who Will the Court Protect in the 1990s--Introduction
Issue 2
featuring
Issue 3
featuring
- Is Racism Irrelevant? Or Should the Fairness in Death Sentencing Act Be Enacted to Substantially Diminish Racial Discrimination in Capital Sentencing?
- Ambivalence in State Capital Punishment Policy: An Empirical Sounding
- The Role and Consequences of the Death Penalty in American Politics
- Reclaiming the Gavel: Making Sense out of the Death Penalty Debate in State Legislatures
Issue 4
featuring
- Mending the Safety Net's Safety Net: The Federal Courts Study Committee's Proposals for Reforming the Social Security Disability Benefits Review Process
- A Family Like any Other Family: Alternative Methods of Defining Family in Law
- Woman Behind the Blindfold: Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Rawls' Theory of Justice, The
- Classical Nostalgia: Racism, Contract Ideology, and Formalist Legal Reasoning in Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
In Depth Reading
Volume 18 Issue 1
The Supreme Court and Daily Life: Who Will the Court Protect in the 1990s--Introduction
Introduction to the Articles in this issue, pertaining to a wide vareity of civil liberties and rights the Court will address in its upcoming term and beyond.
Losing the Negative Right of Privacy: Building Sexual and Reproductive Freedom
Sexual and reproductive freedoms are negative privacy rights that the law should protect from encroachment.
Limiting the Right to a Bias-Free Workplace: A Survey of the Employment Discrimination Decisions of the 1988-89 Term
Discussion of the increasingly difficulty of lititgating employment discrimination cases in light of new Court decisions.
Volume 18 Issue 2
Chipping Away at the Great Writ: Will Death Sentenced Federal Habeas Corpus Petitioners Be Able to Seek and Utilize Changes in the Law
Discussion of the scope and availability of habeas corpus defenses to capital case defendants in light of recent Supreme Court decisions.
Book Annotations
Annotations of: DEATH WORK: A STUDY OF THE MODERN EXECUTION PROCESS. By Robert Johnson. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1990; DEATH & DISCRIMINATION: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN CAPITAL SENTENCING. By Samuel R. Gross and Robert Mauro. Boston, Massachusetts: North-eastern University
Prosecutors' Closing Arguments at the Penalty Trial
Examines parameters within which defense counsel can argue that a prosecutor's closing statement establishes grounds for reversing a death sentence.
The Decline of Executive Clemency in Capital Cases
Examination of the declining use of executive clemency in capital cases.
Volume 18 Issue 3
Inevitable Error: Wrongful New York State Homicide Convictions, 1965-1988
A cataloguing of wrongful convictions in NY over a 20 year period, supporting position that NY should not reenact death penalty.
Reclaiming the Gavel: Making Sense out of the Death Penalty Debate in State Legislatures
Supreme Court hasn't examined fairness in death penalty cases and reduced obstacles to its use; abolitionists need legislative and political strategies.
Ambivalence in State Capital Punishment Policy: An Empirical Sounding
High number of those given death penalty not many executed, reflecting state uncertainty around death penalty; looking at data to support this conclusion.
Prosecutorial and Jury Decision-Making in Post-Furman Texas Capital Cases
Data shows decisions to charge and sentence defendants to death are not based on legally relevant factors; explores relevancy of factors in Texas cases.
Volume 18 Issue 4
Mending the Safety Net's Safety Net: The Federal Courts Study Committee's Proposals for Reforming the Social Security Disability Benefits Review Process
Analyzing the social security review system which is subject to political influences and conflicting law, and suggesting reforms.
A Family Like any Other Family: Alternative Methods of Defining Family in Law
Discussion around the idea of family as kin and more modern conceptions of family and how it has become strongly politicized.
Tax Glasnost for Millionaires: Peeking behind the Veil of Ignorance along the Publicity-Privacy Continuum
Discussion of if current law impedes forming public policy around the ability of the wealthy to pay higher taxes by allowing secrecy around income tax returns.
Classical Nostalgia: Racism, Contract Ideology, and Formalist Legal Reasoning in Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
Discussion of the intersection of race and contract theory/contract formalism.