The Review: Volume 19

Preview

Issue 2

featuring

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
Burying the Dead: The Case against Revival of Pre-Roe and Pre-Casey Abortion Statutes in a Post-Casey World
Abandoned But Not Forgotten: The Illegal Confinement of Elderly People in State Psychiatric Institutions
Death in the Legislature: Inventing Legal Tools for Autonomy

Issue 4

featuring

The Pending Crisis in Employer-Provided Health Benefits for Retirees: Are Tax Breaks for Employers the Answer
Rethinking the Work-Family Conflict in the Labor Arbitration Context
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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Volume 19 Issue 2

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change