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
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- Reclaiming the Gavel: Making Sense out of the Death Penalty Debate in State Legislatures
- The Execution of the Innocent: The Tragedy of the Hauptmann-Lindbergh and Bigelow Cases
- The Role and Consequences of the Death Penalty in American Politics
- Ambivalence in State Capital Punishment Policy: An Empirical Sounding
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- 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
- Mending the Safety Net's Safety Net: The Federal Courts Study Committee's Proposals for Reforming the Social Security Disability Benefits Review Process
- Tax Glasnost for Millionaires: Peeking behind the Veil of Ignorance along the Publicity-Privacy Continuum
In Depth Reading
Volume 18 Issue 1
Affirmative Action: Unresolved Questions Amidst a Changing Judiciary
Examination of increasing challenges to affirmative action in the context of an increasingly conservative judiciary.
The Bill of Rights--Can It Survive?
The Supreme Court's decisions last term have eroded the protections afforded in the Bill of Rights, and looking forward it seems the trend will continue.
Reclaiming a Public Resource: The Constitutionality of Requiring Broadcasters to Provide Free Television Advertising Time to Candidates for Federal Office
Analyzing constitutional validity of requiring broadcasters to provide free advertising time to political candidates.
Volume 18 Issue 2
Innocence, Federalism, and the Capital Jury: Two Legislative Proposals for Evaluating Post-Trial Evidence of Innocence in Death Penalty Cases
Examination of inadequacy of state and federal level checks on preventing factual inaccuracies resulting in wrongful executions.
The Decline of Executive Clemency in Capital Cases
Examination of the declining use of executive clemency in capital cases.
Foreword
Since its inception in 1970, the Review of Law & Social Change has hosted a series of symposia and colloquia on topics which its members have considered timely and important. These events, which bring together leading aca- demics and practitioners,
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
Book Annotations
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
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.
The Execution of the Innocent: The Tragedy of the Hauptmann-Lindbergh and Bigelow Cases
Looking at Hauptmann and Bigelow capital punishment cases to explore how our system is still fallible and how innocents can be sentenced to death.
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.
Volume 18 Issue 4
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.
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.
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.