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.
The Review: Volume 18
Preview
Issue 1
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- Racism and Retrenchment in Capital Sentencing: Judicial and Congressional Haste toward the Ultimate Injustice
- Losing the Negative Right of Privacy: Building Sexual and Reproductive Freedom
- 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
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Issue 3
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Issue 4
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- Tax Glasnost for Millionaires: Peeking behind the Veil of Ignorance along the Publicity-Privacy Continuum
- 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
- A Family Like any Other Family: Alternative Methods of Defining Family in Law
In Depth Reading
Volume 18 Issue 1
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.
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
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.
Volume 18 Issue 2
Suspending Justice: The Unconstitutionality of the Proposed Six-Month Time Limit on the Filing of Habeas Corpus Petitions by State Death Row Inmates
Examination of the of the increasing time limitations on death row inmate's ability to file habease corpus petitions.
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.
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
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.
Reclaiming the Gavel: Making Sense out of the Death Penalty Debate in State Legislatures
Supreme Court hasn't examined fairness in death penalty cases and reduced obstacles to its use; abolitionists need legislative and political strategies.
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.
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.
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.
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.