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.
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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.
Analysis of products liability litigation and its potential application and adjustments to deal with new contraceptive medication.
Sexual and reproductive freedoms are negative privacy rights that the law should protect from encroachment.
Examination of increasing challenges to affirmative action in the context of an increasingly conservative judiciary.
Discussion regarding the inadequacy of counsel provided to defendants i capital cases.
Exploration of reasons for and possible explanations regarding the growing public support for the death penalty.
Examination of the of the increasing time limitations on death row inmate's ability to file habease corpus petitions.
Examines parameters within which defense counsel can argue that a prosecutor's closing statement establishes grounds for reversing a death sentence.
Data analysis of various habeas procedures and doctrines through looking at habeas cases in SDNY in a three year period.
A cataloguing of wrongful convictions in NY over a 20 year period, supporting position that NY should not reenact death penalty.
High number of those given death penalty not many executed, reflecting state uncertainty around death penalty; looking at data to support this conclusion.
Data shows decisions to charge and sentence defendants to death are not based on legally relevant factors; explores relevancy of factors in Texas cases.
Discussion of the intersection of race and contract theory/contract formalism.
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.
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.