The Review: Volume 19

Preview

Issue 4

featuring

Resistances and Possibilities: A Critical and Practical Look at Public Interest Lawyering
The Pending Crisis in Employer-Provided Health Benefits for Retirees: Are Tax Breaks for Employers the Answer
Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius
An Alternative to Privacy: The First Amendment Right of Intimate Association

In Depth Reading

Volume 19 Issue 1

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.

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.

Brief Amicus Curiae, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey

Brief advocating the preservation of Roe v. Wade, and a woman's right to choose. Restrictive abortion laws hurt women's health and NYC resources.

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

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.

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

Volume 19 Issue 3

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.

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.

Individualizing Back Pay Relief in Title VII Class Actions

Discusses the goals of back pay relief and procedures under Title VII jurisprudence.

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.

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

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change