The Review: Volume 19

Preview

Issue 3

featuring

Gestational Surrogacy: Unsettling State Parentage Law and Surrogacy Policy
Systemic Deterrence against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of the South Texas Immigration District
Individualizing Back Pay Relief in Title VII Class Actions
Determining Asylum Claims in the United States: A Case Study on the Implementation of Legal Norms in an Unstructured Adjudicatory Environment

In Depth Reading

Volume 19 Issue 1

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.

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

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.

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.

Volume 19 Issue 2

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change