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Analyzing constitutional validity of requiring broadcasters to provide free advertising time to political candidates.
Analysis of the racial bias of the death penalty andr access to post-conviction appellate review for death-row prisoners.
Examination of increasing challenges to affirmative action in the context of an increasingly conservative judiciary.
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.
Discussion regarding the inadequacy of counsel provided to defendants i capital cases.
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.
Argues the necessity of public education and exposure of capital trials in order to educate the public regarding the injustice of the death penalty.
A cataloguing of wrongful convictions in NY over a 20 year period, supporting position that NY should not reenact death penalty.
The death penalty has become a prominent issue in a wide range of American political campaigns.
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
Data shows decisions to charge and sentence defendants to death are not based on legally relevant factors; explores relevancy of factors in Texas cases.
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.
Analyzing the social security review system which is subject to political influences and conflicting law, and suggesting reforms.
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 around the idea of family as kin and more modern conceptions of family and how it has become strongly politicized.