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
- The Transracial Adoption Controversy: An Analysis of Discourse and Subordination
- Clinical Contexts: Theory and Practice in Law and Supervision
- Book Review: The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Life's Dominion and Dworkin's Integrity
- Closing the Gap between Reich and Poor: Which Side is the Department of Labor On?
Issue 2
featuring
Issue 3
featuring
- Criminal Responsibility, Social Responsibility, and Angry Young Men: Reflections of a Feminist Criminal Defense Lawyer
- Evidence of a Sexually Hostile Workplace: What is it and How Should it Be Assessed after Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
- A Regime of Social Death: Criminal Punishment in the Age of Prisons
- Crossing the Threshold: Equal Marriage Rights for Lesbians and Gay Men and the Intra-Community Critique
In Depth Reading
Volume 21 Issue 1
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.
The Transracial Adoption Controversy: An Analysis of Discourse and Subordination
Discusses transracial adoptions in depth, focusing on the adoption of Black children.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Clinton Health Plan: We Deserved Better
Examines flaws with the health care system despite the proposed reforms by the Clinton Administration.
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.
Evidence of a Sexually Hostile Workplace: What is it and How Should it Be Assessed after Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
Examines what constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace in the aftermath of Harris, including a discussion on the relevant standard of proof.
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
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.
Fiscal Equity in Education: Deconstructing the Reigning Myths and Facing Reality
Identifies judicially constructed barriers to the fiscal equity in education and proposes solutions.
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.
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."