Much Ado about Nothing: NLRB Regulation of Union Affiliation Elections
NLRB's current review policy of union affiliations is flawed and there is a question as to whether it should exist; review intrudes on union internal affairs.
The Review: Volume 19
Preview
Issue 1
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Issue 2
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- Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment for Incompetent Patients: New York's Response to Cruzan
- Death in the Legislature: Inventing Legal Tools for Autonomy
- Abandoned But Not Forgotten: The Illegal Confinement of Elderly People in State Psychiatric Institutions
- The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
Issue 3
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- Gestational Surrogacy: Unsettling State Parentage Law and Surrogacy Policy
- Systemic Deterrence against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of the South Texas Immigration District
- Individualizing Back Pay Relief in Title VII Class Actions
- Sentencing Enhancements under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Punishment without Proof
In Depth Reading
Volume 19 Issue 1
Choosing the Insidious Path: West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey and the Importance of Experts in Civil Rights Litigation
The disallowance of shifting testimony fees to the losing party in civil rights cases impedes access to courts for parties that cannot afford it.
Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law
Feminism takes as its distinctive focus gender-based injustices, and critically investigates the nature of and remedies for these injustices. Feminism flourishes in diverse fields of thought and practice, and its critical claims – centering on injustices to women – play
Diversity and Learning: Imagining a Pedagogy of Difference
It is not enough to increase diverse enrollment in law schools, and a change in law school pedagogy to better integrate everyone is necessary.
Volume 19 Issue 2
Death in the Legislature: Inventing Legal Tools for Autonomy
Examines the role of the legislature in shaping health care legislations with reference to the Patient Self Determination Act. Also examines the court's role.
Book Annotations
In The Past and Future of Affirmative Action, Ronald Turner strives to describe and explain the law without joining in the debate over the moral and political justifications of affirmative action. His goal is to explain in detail how the
Burying the Dead: The Case against Revival of Pre-Roe and Pre-Casey Abortion Statutes in a Post-Casey World
Discusses the problem of Casey and the confusion and ambiguity it has caused and argues against the revival of pre-Casey criminal abortion statutes.
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
Since 1976 have been working with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and various allied organizations. These groups work to advance the interests of low and moderate income people, which certainly implies significant social change. ACORN is
Volume 19 Issue 3
Gestational Surrogacy: Unsettling State Parentage Law and Surrogacy Policy
Critical analysis of the rights of the surrogate gestator and the allied state policies that are applicable to these arrangements.
Capital Punishment in America
Capital punishment has been applied in North America virtually since the first European settlers arrived. It has been estimated that about 16,000 people have been legally executed in the United States and its colonial predecessors; an unknown additional number of
Sentencing Enhancements under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Punishment without Proof
Critical analysis of standards of proof and federal sentencing guidelines. Also examines burden of proof determination.
Individualizing Back Pay Relief in Title VII Class Actions
Discusses the goals of back pay relief and procedures under Title VII jurisprudence.
Volume 19 Issue 4
Resistances and Possibilities: A Critical and Practical Look at Public Interest Lawyering
Analyses the traditional role of public interest lawyering and addressed the issue of critical lawyering in the present legal framework.
An Alternative to Privacy: The First Amendment Right of Intimate Association
Explores the role of the state in shaping our network and therefore, the importance of privacy in matters of our personal networks.
Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius
In 1968, a First Amendment lawyer named Charles Rembar published a book entitled The End of Obscenity. Rembar described his adventures defending such twentieth century literary classics as Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover against
The Pending Crisis in Employer-Provided Health Benefits for Retirees: Are Tax Breaks for Employers the Answer
Explores post retirement benefits and the procedural and policy reforms that can enhance it.