The Review: Volume 18

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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
Tax Glasnost for Millionaires: Peeking behind the Veil of Ignorance along the Publicity-Privacy Continuum
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

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.

Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution

Comparing and contrasting Contractarian and Feminist arguments regarding the validity of legal prostituion.

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.

Losing the Negative Right of Privacy: Building Sexual and Reproductive Freedom

Sexual and reproductive freedoms are negative privacy rights that the law should protect from encroachment.

Volume 18 Issue 2

Challenging the Death Penalty: Foreword

Overview of reasons for choosing the death penalty as the subject of the colloquium.

Chipping Away at the Great Writ: Will Death Sentenced Federal Habeas Corpus Petitioners Be Able to Seek and Utilize Changes in the Law

Discussion of the scope and availability of habeas corpus defenses to capital case defendants in light of recent Supreme Court decisions.

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.

Death Penalty Opinion in the Post-Furman Years

Exploration of reasons for and possible explanations regarding the growing public support for the death penalty.

Volume 18 Issue 3

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change