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
- Abandoned But Not Forgotten: The Illegal Confinement of Elderly People in State Psychiatric Institutions
- Death in the Legislature: Inventing Legal Tools for Autonomy
- Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment for Incompetent Patients: New York's Response to Cruzan
- The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
Issue 3
featuring
- Systemic Deterrence against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of the South Texas Immigration District
- Individualizing Back Pay Relief in Title VII Class Actions
- Gestational Surrogacy: Unsettling State Parentage Law and Surrogacy Policy
- Determining Asylum Claims in the United States: A Case Study on the Implementation of Legal Norms in an Unstructured Adjudicatory Environment
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
- Resistances and Possibilities: A Critical and Practical Look at Public Interest Lawyering
- Recognizing Rape as a Method of Torture
In Depth Reading
Volume 19 Issue 1
A Deconstruction of (M)otherhood and a Reconstruction of Parenthood
Discussion of gender roles, motherhood, & challenging societal construction of motherhood as a problem. Advocates for mothers to redefine and retain autonomy.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Volume 19 Issue 3
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.
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.
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.
Volume 19 Issue 4
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.
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
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.