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.
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
- Affirmative Action: Unresolved Questions Amidst a Changing Judiciary
- Limiting the Right to a Bias-Free Workplace: A Survey of the Employment Discrimination Decisions of the 1988-89 Term
- Confronting a New Obstacle to Reproductive Choice: Encouraging the Development of RU-486 through Reform of Products Liability Law
Issue 2
featuring
Issue 3
featuring
- On Metaphors, Mirrors, and Murders: Theodore Bundy and the Rule of Law
- Is Racism Irrelevant? Or Should the Fairness in Death Sentencing Act Be Enacted to Substantially Diminish Racial Discrimination in Capital Sentencing?
- Prosecutorial and Jury Decision-Making in Post-Furman Texas Capital Cases
- The Role and Consequences of the Death Penalty in American Politics
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
- Classical Nostalgia: Racism, Contract Ideology, and Formalist Legal Reasoning in Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
- 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
In Depth Reading
Volume 18 Issue 1
Throwing the Book at Revelations: First Amendment Implications of Enforcing Reporters' Promises
Argues that protections erected by the Supreme Court shielding the press from defamation actions should be imported to the contract setting.
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.
Confronting a New Obstacle to Reproductive Choice: Encouraging the Development of RU-486 through Reform of Products Liability Law
Analysis of products liability litigation and its potential application and adjustments to deal with new contraceptive medication.
Volume 18 Issue 2
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
Understanding Teague v. Lane
Discussion of the Teague v. Lane's new rule on retroactivity in criminal cases and its effect on past criminal cases.
The Chiropractor as Brain Surgeon: Defense Lawyering in Capital Cases
Discussion regarding the inadequacy of counsel provided to defendants i capital cases.
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
On Metaphors, Mirrors, and Murders: Theodore Bundy and the Rule of Law
Article discusses the Ted Bundy case and debunks myths about Ted Budy receiving super due process and his attorneys caused delays in executing his sentence.
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.
The Great Writ in Action: Empirical Light on the Federal Habeas Corpus Debate
Data analysis of various habeas procedures and doctrines through looking at habeas cases in SDNY in a three year period.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.