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.
The Review: Volume 21
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Clinical Contexts: Theory and Practice in Law and Supervision
- 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?
Issue 2
featuring
- 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
- Access to Health Care: What Are the Barriers to Equitable Access and How Can They Be Overcome?
- Labor Pains: Childbearing Centers in a New Health Care System
Issue 3
featuring
- The Millian Thoughts of Lani Guinier
- 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.
- Criminal Responsibility, Social Responsibility, and Angry Young Men: Reflections of a Feminist Criminal Defense Lawyer
In Depth Reading
Volume 21 Issue 1
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.
The Transracial Adoption Controversy: An Analysis of Discourse and Subordination
Discusses transracial adoptions in depth, focusing on the adoption of Black children.
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
Access to Health Care: What Are the Barriers to Equitable Access and How Can They Be Overcome?
Discusses the many obstacles of making health care accessible to everyone, including lack of public resources.
The Clinton Health Plan: We Deserved Better
Examines flaws with the health care system despite the proposed reforms by the Clinton Administration.
Is Equal Access the Prescription for Equity
Transcript of roundtable discussion re: inequalities and issues within the healthcare system ranging from prenatal to geriatric care to racism to immunization.
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
The Millian Thoughts of Lani Guinier
Review of Tyranny of the Majority by Lani Guinier, about voting rights.
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.
Volume 21 Issue 4
Keynote Address
Keynote address for colloquium on education reform.
What's Quality Got to Do With It?: Constitutional Theory, Politics, and Education Reform
Compares recent education reform in Kentucky and New Jersey through both constitutional and political theory, looking at which is more effective.
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.
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."