The Review: Volume 19

Preview

Issue 3

featuring

Gestational Surrogacy: Unsettling State Parentage Law and Surrogacy Policy
Sentencing Enhancements under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Punishment without Proof
Individualizing Back Pay Relief in Title VII Class Actions
Systemic Deterrence against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of the South Texas Immigration District

Issue 4

featuring

Rethinking the Work-Family Conflict in the Labor Arbitration Context
Resistances and Possibilities: A Critical and Practical Look at Public Interest Lawyering
An Alternative to Privacy: The First Amendment Right of Intimate Association
The Pending Crisis in Employer-Provided Health Benefits for Retirees: Are Tax Breaks for Employers the Answer

In Depth Reading

Volume 19 Issue 1

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.

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

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.

Off the Pedestal and into the Arena: Toward Including Women in Experimental Protocols

Note discussing sex discrimination against women in medical trials and the deletirious consequences this may have on the results.

Volume 19 Issue 2

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

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.

Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment for Incompetent Patients: New York's Response to Cruzan

Explores the impact of Cruzan in New York especially when it comes to incompetent patients being forcibly given treatment that does not benefit them.

Abandoned But Not Forgotten: The Illegal Confinement of Elderly People in State Psychiatric Institutions

Article about geriatric patients in pschiatric institutions being detained illegally. Examines the kind of medicines administered to them as well.

Volume 19 Issue 3

Systemic Deterrence against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of the South Texas Immigration District

Explores the process of seeking asylum and analyses the procedural nuances involved with reference to South Texas.

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.

Determining Asylum Claims in the United States: A Case Study on the Implementation of Legal Norms in an Unstructured Adjudicatory Environment

Article discusses the problems in asylum claims and focuses on the legislative and judicial framework to decide them.

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.

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

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change