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.
The Review: Volume 19
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
Issue 2
featuring
- Burying the Dead: The Case against Revival of Pre-Roe and Pre-Casey Abortion Statutes in a Post-Casey World
- Death in the Legislature: Inventing Legal Tools for Autonomy
- Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment for Incompetent Patients: New York's Response to Cruzan
- Abandoned But Not Forgotten: The Illegal Confinement of Elderly People in State Psychiatric Institutions
Issue 3
featuring
- Individualizing Back Pay Relief in Title VII Class Actions
- Gestational Surrogacy: Unsettling State Parentage Law and Surrogacy Policy
- Systemic Deterrence against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of the South Texas Immigration District
- Sentencing Enhancements under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Punishment without Proof
Issue 4
featuring
- Rethinking the Work-Family Conflict in the Labor Arbitration Context
- Recognizing Rape as a Method of Torture
- The Pending Crisis in Employer-Provided Health Benefits for Retirees: Are Tax Breaks for Employers the Answer
- Resistances and Possibilities: A Critical and Practical Look at Public Interest Lawyering
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Volume 19 Issue 4
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
Organization Life and Critical Legal Thought: A Psychopolitical Inquiry and Argument
Discusses critical legal studies, legal oppositionism and the notion of organisation life.
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.