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.
The Review: Volume 18
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- Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution
- Limiting the Right to a Bias-Free Workplace: A Survey of the Employment Discrimination Decisions of the 1988-89 Term
- The Supreme Court and Daily Life: Who Will the Court Protect in the 1990s--Introduction
- Throwing the Book at Revelations: First Amendment Implications of Enforcing Reporters' Promises
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Issue 4
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- A Family Like any Other Family: Alternative Methods of Defining Family in Law
- Mending the Safety Net's Safety Net: The Federal Courts Study Committee's Proposals for Reforming the Social Security Disability Benefits Review Process
- Woman Behind the Blindfold: Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Rawls' Theory of Justice, The
- Classical Nostalgia: Racism, Contract Ideology, and Formalist Legal Reasoning in Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
In Depth Reading
Volume 18 Issue 1
Reclaiming a Public Resource: The Constitutionality of Requiring Broadcasters to Provide Free Television Advertising Time to Candidates for Federal Office
Analyzing constitutional validity of requiring broadcasters to provide free advertising time to political candidates.
Racism and Retrenchment in Capital Sentencing: Judicial and Congressional Haste toward the Ultimate Injustice
Analysis of the racial bias of the death penalty andr access to post-conviction appellate review for death-row prisoners.
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
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.
Understanding Teague v. Lane
Discussion of the Teague v. Lane's new rule on retroactivity in criminal cases and its effect on past criminal cases.
Challenging the Death Penalty: Foreword
Overview of reasons for choosing the death penalty as the subject of the colloquium.
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,
Volume 18 Issue 3
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
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.
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.
The Great Writ in Action: Empirical Light on the Federal Habeas Corpus Debate
Data analysis of various habeas procedures and doctrines through looking at habeas cases in SDNY in a three year period.
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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.
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.
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.
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.