Limiting the Right to a Bias-Free Workplace: A Survey of the Employment Discrimination Decisions of the 1988-89 Term
Discussion of the increasingly difficulty of lititgating employment discrimination cases in light of new Court decisions.
The Review: Volume 18
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Racism and Retrenchment in Capital Sentencing: Judicial and Congressional Haste toward the Ultimate Injustice
- Limiting the Right to a Bias-Free Workplace: A Survey of the Employment Discrimination Decisions of the 1988-89 Term
- The Bill of Rights--Can It Survive?
- Confronting a New Obstacle to Reproductive Choice: Encouraging the Development of RU-486 through Reform of Products Liability Law
Issue 2
featuring
- Innocence, Federalism, and the Capital Jury: Two Legislative Proposals for Evaluating Post-Trial Evidence of Innocence in Death Penalty Cases
- Death Penalty Opinion in the Post-Furman Years
- Chipping Away at the Great Writ: Will Death Sentenced Federal Habeas Corpus Petitioners Be Able to Seek and Utilize Changes in the Law
- Foreword
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
- Reclaiming the Gavel: Making Sense out of the Death Penalty Debate in State Legislatures
- Prosecutorial and Jury Decision-Making in Post-Furman Texas Capital Cases
Issue 4
featuring
- 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
- A Family Like any Other Family: Alternative Methods of Defining Family in Law
In Depth Reading
Volume 18 Issue 1
Introduction
The papers which follow grew out of a one-day conference entitled “The Supreme Court and Daily Life: Who Will the Court Protect in the 1990’s?” which was held on October 21, 1989. This event, co-sponsored by The Nation Institute and The
Affirmative Action: Unresolved Questions Amidst a Changing Judiciary
Examination of increasing challenges to affirmative action in the context of an increasingly conservative judiciary.
Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution
Comparing and contrasting Contractarian and Feminist arguments regarding the validity of legal prostituion.
Volume 18 Issue 2
Habeas Corpus as a Safety Valve for Innocence
Examination of if Teague and its exceptions continue to protect the innocent defendant as do the rules pertaining to abuse of the writ and procedural default.
Law and Reality in the Capital Penalty Trial
Argues the necessity of public education and exposure of capital trials in order to educate the public regarding the injustice of the death penalty.
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.
Challenging the Death Penalty: Foreword
Overview of reasons for choosing the death penalty as the subject of the colloquium.
Volume 18 Issue 3
The Role and Consequences of the Death Penalty in American Politics
The death penalty has become a prominent issue in a wide range of American political campaigns.
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.
On Metaphors, Mirrors, and Murders: Theodore Bundy and the Rule of Law
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.
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
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.
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.
Tax Glasnost for Millionaires: Peeking behind the Veil of Ignorance along the Publicity-Privacy Continuum
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.
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.