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
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Issue 1
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- Sentencing Enhancements under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Punishment without Proof
- Systemic Deterrence against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of the South Texas Immigration District
- Gestational Surrogacy: Unsettling State Parentage Law and Surrogacy Policy
- Individualizing Back Pay Relief in Title VII Class Actions
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- Organization Life and Critical Legal Thought: A Psychopolitical Inquiry and Argument
- Resistances and Possibilities: A Critical and Practical Look at Public Interest Lawyering
- Rethinking the Work-Family Conflict in the Labor Arbitration Context
- An Alternative to Privacy: The First Amendment Right of Intimate Association
In Depth Reading
Volume 19 Issue 1
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.
Book Annotations
Feminism is approaching the turn of the century with an eventful past. With history comes legitimacy; accordingly, women’s issues and feminist scholarship have established an unprecedented presence in academic and political arenas. In particular feminism has attainted a unique prominence
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
Rethinking the Work-Family Conflict in the Labor Arbitration Context
Analyses the need to change the narrow perception of the worker to a more holistic one and hopes to reconcile the work-family divide.
Recognizing Rape as a Method of Torture
Discusses recognising rape as a method of torture with reference to international conventions and by analysing the physical and emotional dimensions of rape.
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.
Organization Life and Critical Legal Thought: A Psychopolitical Inquiry and Argument
Discusses critical legal studies, legal oppositionism and the notion of organisation life.