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Analysis of products liability litigation and its potential application and adjustments to deal with new contraceptive medication.
Argues that protections erected by the Supreme Court shielding the press from defamation actions should be imported to the contract setting.
Analysis of the racial bias of the death penalty andr access to post-conviction appellate review for death-row prisoners.
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.
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,
Examination of the declining use of executive clemency in capital cases.
Exploration of reasons for and possible explanations regarding the growing public support for the death penalty.
Annotations of: DEATH WORK: A STUDY OF THE MODERN EXECUTION PROCESS. By Robert Johnson. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1990; DEATH & DISCRIMINATION: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN CAPITAL SENTENCING. By Samuel R. Gross and Robert Mauro. Boston, Massachusetts: North-eastern University
The death penalty has become a prominent issue in a wide range of American political campaigns.
Impact of Teague's limits on habeas corpus jurisdiction and the Teague nonretroactivity doctrine.
High number of those given death penalty not many executed, reflecting state uncertainty around death penalty; looking at data to support this conclusion.
Looking at Hauptmann and Bigelow capital punishment cases to explore how our system is still fallible and how innocents can be sentenced to death.
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.
Discussion around the idea of family as kin and more modern conceptions of family and how it has become strongly politicized.
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.
Discussion of the intersection of race and contract theory/contract formalism.