Affirmative Action: Unresolved Questions Amidst a Changing Judiciary
Examination of increasing challenges to affirmative action in the context of an increasingly conservative judiciary.
The Review: Volume 18
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Throwing the Book at Revelations: First Amendment Implications of Enforcing Reporters' Promises
- Limiting the Right to a Bias-Free Workplace: A Survey of the Employment Discrimination Decisions of the 1988-89 Term
- Confronting a New Obstacle to Reproductive Choice: Encouraging the Development of RU-486 through Reform of Products Liability Law
- Affirmative Action: Unresolved Questions Amidst a Changing Judiciary
Issue 2
featuring
Issue 3
featuring
- Is Racism Irrelevant? Or Should the Fairness in Death Sentencing Act Be Enacted to Substantially Diminish Racial Discrimination in Capital Sentencing?
- Inevitable Error: Wrongful New York State Homicide Convictions, 1965-1988
- On Metaphors, Mirrors, and Murders: Theodore Bundy and the Rule of Law
- The Great Writ in Action: Empirical Light on the Federal Habeas Corpus Debate
Issue 4
featuring
- 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
Confronting a New Obstacle to Reproductive Choice: Encouraging the Development of RU-486 through Reform of Products Liability Law
Analysis of products liability litigation and its potential application and adjustments to deal with new contraceptive medication.
The Supreme Court and Daily Life: Who Will the Court Protect in the 1990s--Introduction
Introduction to the Articles in this issue, pertaining to a wide vareity of civil liberties and rights the Court will address in its upcoming term and beyond.
Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution
Comparing and contrasting Contractarian and Feminist arguments regarding the validity of legal prostituion.
Volume 18 Issue 2
The Chiropractor as Brain Surgeon: Defense Lawyering in Capital Cases
Discussion regarding the inadequacy of counsel provided to defendants i capital cases.
Foreword
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,
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.
Challenging the Death Penalty: Foreword
Overview of reasons for choosing the death penalty as the subject of the colloquium.
Volume 18 Issue 3
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.
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.
Book Annotations
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.