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Analyzing constitutional validity of requiring broadcasters to provide free advertising time to political candidates.
Analysis of the racial bias of the death penalty andr access to post-conviction appellate review for death-row prisoners.
Sexual and reproductive freedoms are negative privacy rights that the law should protect from encroachment.
Argues that protections erected by the Supreme Court shielding the press from defamation actions should be imported to the contract setting.
Examination of the declining use of executive clemency in capital cases.
Argues the necessity of public education and exposure of capital trials in order to educate the public regarding the injustice of the death penalty.
Discussion regarding the inadequacy of counsel provided to defendants i capital cases.
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
High number of those given death penalty not many executed, reflecting state uncertainty around death penalty; looking at data to support this conclusion.
Annotations of: FACING THE DEATH PENALTY: ESSAYS ON A CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. Edited by Michael L. Radelet. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989; THE DEATH PENALTY: A WORLD-WIDE PERSPECTIVE: A REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON CRIME PREVENTION AND
A cataloguing of wrongful convictions in NY over a 20 year period, supporting position that NY should not reenact death penalty.
Impact of Teague's limits on habeas corpus jurisdiction and the Teague nonretroactivity doctrine.
Discussion around the idea of family as kin and more modern conceptions of family and how it has become strongly politicized.
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.
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.
Analyzing the social security review system which is subject to political influences and conflicting law, and suggesting reforms.