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.
The Review: Volume 18
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Confronting a New Obstacle to Reproductive Choice: Encouraging the Development of RU-486 through Reform of Products Liability Law
- Losing the Negative Right of Privacy: Building Sexual and Reproductive Freedom
- The Supreme Court and Daily Life: Who Will the Court Protect in the 1990s--Introduction
- Throwing the Book at Revelations: First Amendment Implications of Enforcing Reporters' Promises
Issue 2
featuring
- Challenging the Death Penalty: Foreword
- Innocence, Federalism, and the Capital Jury: Two Legislative Proposals for Evaluating Post-Trial Evidence of Innocence in Death Penalty Cases
- Habeas Corpus as a Safety Valve for Innocence
- Suspending Justice: The Unconstitutionality of the Proposed Six-Month Time Limit on the Filing of Habeas Corpus Petitions by State Death Row Inmates
Issue 3
featuring
- Ambivalence in State Capital Punishment Policy: An Empirical Sounding
- The Execution of the Innocent: The Tragedy of the Hauptmann-Lindbergh and Bigelow Cases
- More Than Slightly Retro: The Rehnquist Court's Rout of Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction in Teague v. Lane
- The Great Writ in Action: Empirical Light on the Federal Habeas Corpus Debate
Issue 4
featuring
- Woman Behind the Blindfold: Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Rawls' Theory of Justice, The
- 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
- 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
Affirmative Action: Unresolved Questions Amidst a Changing Judiciary
Examination of increasing challenges to affirmative action in the context of an increasingly conservative judiciary.
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.
Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution
Comparing and contrasting Contractarian and Feminist arguments regarding the validity of legal prostituion.
Volume 18 Issue 2
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 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
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.
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.
More Than Slightly Retro: The Rehnquist Court's Rout of Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction in Teague v. Lane
Impact of Teague's limits on habeas corpus jurisdiction and the Teague nonretroactivity doctrine.
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.
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.
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.