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.
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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.
Sexual and reproductive freedoms are negative privacy rights that the law should protect from encroachment.
Examination of increasing challenges to affirmative action in the context of an increasingly conservative judiciary.
Discussion of the increasingly difficulty of lititgating employment discrimination cases in light of new Court decisions.
Discussion of the scope and availability of habeas corpus defenses to capital case defendants in light of recent Supreme Court decisions.
Discussion of the Teague v. Lane's new rule on retroactivity in criminal cases and its effect on past criminal cases.
Examination of inadequacy of state and federal level checks on preventing factual inaccuracies resulting in wrongful executions.
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
Looking at Hauptmann and Bigelow capital punishment cases to explore how our system is still fallible and how innocents can be sentenced to death.
Data analysis of various habeas procedures and doctrines through looking at habeas cases in SDNY in a three year period.
The death penalty has become a prominent issue in a wide range of American political campaigns.
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.
Analyzing the social security review system which is subject to political influences and conflicting law, and suggesting reforms.
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 the intersection of race and contract theory/contract formalism.