The Review: Volume 23

Preview

Issue 1

featuring

Dead Man Walking without Due Process? A Discussion of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
The Heart of Equal Protection: Education and Race
Neighborhood Legal Services As House Counsel to Community-Based Efforts to Achieve Economic Justice: The East Brooklyn Experience
A Moralist in a Legalist World: A Memorial Essay for Henry Schwarzschild

Issue 3

featuring

Comparison of the Availability of Contraceptive Methods in Selected European Countries and the United States
Tort Liability and the Availability of Contraceptive Drugs and Devices in the United States
Book Annotation 24.3
Protecting Consumers, Prodding Companies, and Preventing Conception: Toward a Model Act for No Fault Liability for Contraceptives

In Depth Reading

Volume 23 Issue 1

A Moralist in a Legalist World: A Memorial Essay for Henry Schwarzschild

Essay memorializing Henry Schwarzschild, who led the ACLU Capital Punishment Project and died on the day the death penalty in military trials was upheld.

Dead Man Walking without Due Process? A Discussion of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

Discussion of due process violations in capital cases, specifically after passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.

Neighborhood Legal Services As House Counsel to Community-Based Efforts to Achieve Economic Justice: The East Brooklyn Experience

Analyzes the benefits and disadvantages of the house counsel model as a way for public interest lawyers to support community-based economic development.

The Heart of Equal Protection: Education and Race

Explores waning commitment to racial and educational equality post-Brown and considers how emotional intelligence skills show importance of equal education.

Volume 23 Issue 2

Whistling Vivaldi: Legal Education and the Politics of Progress

Explores ongoing challenges for women in law schools: few women faculty in areas of academic award, marginalization of "women's issues," devaluation of women.

A Pre-Memorial Message on Law School Teaching

Explores ways of rethinking legal education, particularly in the context of constitutional law. Focus on creating participatory classes.

The Cultural Meaning of the Welfare Queen: Using State Constitutions to Challenge Child Exclusion Provisions

Argues that welfare reform and the child exclusion provision are racially discriminatory, but Equal Protection Clause does not protect against this.

Lobbying for Mandatory-Arrest Policies: Race, Class, and the Politics of the Battered Women's Movement

Explores problems in the battered women's movement stemming from a lack of acknowledgment of race and class differences among battered women.

Volume 23 Issue 3

Litigation Rules and Culture: The European Perspective

Analyzes product liability law in Europe before and after the implementation of the EU Directive on product liability law.

In 1995, the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored a conference to look at public and private sector collaboration in the field of contraceptive research and development, and to make recommendations for reducing constraints and promoting this partnership. One recommendation of this conference

Book Annotation 24.3

Toni Fme’s American Legal Systems is designed to introduce law students and students considering law school to American legal systems and to basic legal research and writing techniques (p. xv). The book certainly succeeds on that level, but it will

Protecting Consumers, Prodding Companies, and Preventing Conception: Toward a Model Act for No Fault Liability for Contraceptives

Explores legislative proposals to create no-fault compensation schemes, rather law strict liability, in order to increase access, development of contraceptvies.

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

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change