The Transracial Adoption Controversy: An Analysis of Discourse and Subordination
Discusses transracial adoptions in depth, focusing on the adoption of Black children.
The Review: Volume 21
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Book Review: The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Life's Dominion and Dworkin's Integrity
- The Transracial Adoption Controversy: An Analysis of Discourse and Subordination
- Closing the Gap between Reich and Poor: Which Side is the Department of Labor On?
- Clinical Contexts: Theory and Practice in Law and Supervision
Issue 2
featuring
- Labor Pains: Childbearing Centers in a New Health Care System
- Silent No More: Physician's Legal and Ethical Obligations to Patients Seeking Abortions
- Federal Menus and State Programs: An Intergovernmental Health Care Partnership for the 1990s
- Roundtable Discussion: Is Equal Access the Prescription for Equity?
Issue 3
featuring
- A Regime of Social Death: Criminal Punishment in the Age of Prisons
- Evidence of a Sexually Hostile Workplace: What is it and How Should it Be Assessed after Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
- Crossing the Threshold: Equal Marriage Rights for Lesbians and Gay Men and the Intra-Community Critique
- Criminal Responsibility, Social Responsibility, and Angry Young Men: Reflections of a Feminist Criminal Defense Lawyer
In Depth Reading
Volume 21 Issue 1
Closing the Gap between Reich and Poor: Which Side is the Department of Labor On?
Examines the concept of exclusion/exemption in the labor compensation context in relation to Robert Reich's term as Secretary of Labor.
Clinical Contexts: Theory and Practice in Law and Supervision
Traces the structure of clinical education as part of the law school experience and examines the role of the clinic professor as it extends beyond supervision.
Book Review: The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Life's Dominion and Dworkin's Integrity
While individuals remain free to some extent to select their own life paths, larger choices about women's roles in the family and in society are determined by the collective social and political body.
Volume 21 Issue 2
Federal Menus and State Programs: An Intergovernmental Health Care Partnership for the 1990s
Discusses intergovernmental partnership as a method of implementing healthcare reforms, including past problems with delegating to states and possible remedies.
Roundtable Discussion: Is Equal Access the Prescription for Equity?
Roundtable discussion on healthcare reform.
The Clinton Health Plan: We Deserved Better
Examines flaws with the health care system despite the proposed reforms by the Clinton Administration.
Silent No More: Physician's Legal and Ethical Obligations to Patients Seeking Abortions
Examines physicians' legal and moral obligations to patients seeking abortions against the realities of medical practice, and remedies to address these issues.
Volume 21 Issue 3
Criminal Responsibility, Social Responsibility, and Angry Young Men: Reflections of a Feminist Criminal Defense Lawyer
Discusses from feminist perspective how personal history should be used in criminal cases as a matter of defense strategy and social responsibility.
Crossing the Threshold: Equal Marriage Rights for Lesbians and Gay Men and the Intra-Community Critique
Overviews the state of arguments in favor of marriage equality at the time, particularly those raised by the community.
A Regime of Social Death: Criminal Punishment in the Age of Prisons
Analyzes prison as a form of social death that produces harm for the people exposed through it by design, though US history; uses psychoanalytical theory.
The Millian Thoughts of Lani Guinier
Review of Tyranny of the Majority by Lani Guinier, about voting rights.
Volume 21 Issue 4
Fiscal Equity in Education: Deconstructing the Reigning Myths and Facing Reality
Identifies judicially constructed barriers to the fiscal equity in education and proposes solutions.
Review Essay: Normative and Going Nowhere
Review of School Choice: The Struggle for the Soul of American Education, by Peter W. Cookson Jr. arguing plan proposed is "utopian and largely irrelevant."
Schoolhouse Rocked: Re-Evaluating and Reforming Public School Education
Foreward introducting the titular colloquium, highlighting the need to challenge privatization's challenge to equitably distributed public school education.
Public Education Programs for African-American Males: A Gender Equity Perspective
Examines the existing proposals for education reform for Black girls and boys, then develops a more gender-equitable approach to reform moving forward.