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.
The Review: Volume 18
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution
- Losing the Negative Right of Privacy: Building Sexual and Reproductive Freedom
- Confronting a New Obstacle to Reproductive Choice: Encouraging the Development of RU-486 through Reform of Products Liability Law
- Racism and Retrenchment in Capital Sentencing: Judicial and Congressional Haste toward the Ultimate Injustice
Issue 2
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Issue 3
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- Is Racism Irrelevant? Or Should the Fairness in Death Sentencing Act Be Enacted to Substantially Diminish Racial Discrimination in Capital Sentencing?
- On Metaphors, Mirrors, and Murders: Theodore Bundy and the Rule of Law
- The Great Writ in Action: Empirical Light on the Federal Habeas Corpus Debate
- Prosecutorial and Jury Decision-Making in Post-Furman Texas Capital Cases
Issue 4
featuring
- A Family Like any Other Family: Alternative Methods of Defining Family in Law
- Tax Glasnost for Millionaires: Peeking behind the Veil of Ignorance along the Publicity-Privacy Continuum
- Woman Behind the Blindfold: Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Rawls' Theory of Justice, The
- Mending the Safety Net's Safety Net: The Federal Courts Study Committee's Proposals for Reforming the Social Security Disability Benefits Review Process
In Depth Reading
Volume 18 Issue 1
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.
Introduction
The papers which follow grew out of a one-day conference entitled “The Supreme Court and Daily Life: Who Will the Court Protect in the 1990’s?” which was held on October 21, 1989. This event, co-sponsored by The Nation Institute and The
Volume 18 Issue 2
The Chiropractor as Brain Surgeon: Defense Lawyering in Capital Cases
Discussion regarding the inadequacy of counsel provided to defendants i capital cases.
The Decline of Executive Clemency in Capital Cases
Examination of the declining use of executive clemency in capital cases.
Challenging the Death Penalty: Foreword
Overview of reasons for choosing the death penalty as the subject of the colloquium.
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.
Volume 18 Issue 3
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.
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.
Is Racism Irrelevant? Or Should the Fairness in Death Sentencing Act Be Enacted to Substantially Diminish Racial Discrimination in Capital Sentencing?
Effects of implementing FIDSA and how it can be used to combat racism in death sentencing cases.
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.
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.
Woman Behind the Blindfold: Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Rawls' Theory of Justice, The
Examining Rawls' theory of justice through a feminist lens, and particularly how it fails to deal with sexism in a sexual/marital contract between men & women.
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.
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.