The Review: Volume 18Issue 1

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

Throwing the Book at Revelations: First Amendment Implications of Enforcing Reporters' Promises

Argues that protections erected by the Supreme Court shielding the press from defamation actions should be imported to the contract setting.

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.

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.

Losing the Negative Right of Privacy: Building Sexual and Reproductive Freedom

Sexual and reproductive freedoms are negative privacy rights that the law should protect from encroachment.

Limiting the Right to a Bias-Free Workplace: A Survey of the Employment Discrimination Decisions of the 1988-89 Term

Discussion of the increasingly difficulty of lititgating employment discrimination cases in light of new Court decisions.

Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution

Comparing and contrasting Contractarian and Feminist arguments regarding the validity of legal prostituion.

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 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.

Affirmative Action: Unresolved Questions Amidst a Changing Judiciary

Examination of increasing challenges to affirmative action in the context of an increasingly conservative judiciary.

N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change