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.
The Review: Volume 23
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- The Constitutionality of Pregnancy Discrimination: The Lingering Effects of Geduldig and Suggestions for Forcing its Reversal
- Neighborhood Legal Services As House Counsel to Community-Based Efforts to Achieve Economic Justice: The East Brooklyn Experience
- The Heart of Equal Protection: Education and Race
- Dead Man Walking without Due Process? A Discussion of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
Issue 2
featuring
- The Cultural Meaning of the Welfare Queen: Using State Constitutions to Challenge Child Exclusion Provisions
- Lobbying for Mandatory-Arrest Policies: Race, Class, and the Politics of the Battered Women's Movement
- Legal Education: A Problem of Learning from Text
- Whistling Vivaldi: Legal Education and the Politics of Progress
Issue 3
featuring
- Protecting Consumers, Prodding Companies, and Preventing Conception: Toward a Model Act for No Fault Liability for Contraceptives
- Contraceptive Update
- Disbursement of Indemnity for Injuries Related to Reproductive Drugs and Devices: A Swedish Perspective
- Litigation Rules and Culture: The European Perspective
Issue 4
featuring
- The Role of Race in Child Custody Decisions between Natural Parents over Biracial Children
- Regulating Prisons of the Future: A Psychological Analysis of Supermax and Solitary Confinement
- Maintaining Procedural Protections for Welfare Recipients: Defining Property for the Due Process Clause
- Book Annotations 23.4
In Depth Reading
Volume 23 Issue 1
The Constitutionality of Pregnancy Discrimination: The Lingering Effects of Geduldig and Suggestions for Forcing its Reversal
Explores the lasting impacts of Geduldig, which held pregnancy discrimination constitutional, and avenues for narrowing or overturning the decision.
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.
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.
Volume 23 Issue 2
Legal Education: A Problem of Learning from Text
Considers the reading process, particularly with complex material like law, and suggests how law professors might improve students' textual learning.
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.
A Dialogue about Socratic Teaching
Examines strengths and weaknesses of the Socratic method and its effectiveness for achieving the pedagogic goals of law school.
Volume 23 Issue 3
Contraceptive Update
Examines contraceptives to illustrate the need for more research on them.
Disbursement of Indemnity for Injuries Related to Reproductive Drugs and Devices: A Swedish Perspective
Discusses the Swedish pharamceutical insurance system and its impact on liability stemming from injuries related to contraceptives.
Comparison of the Availability of Contraceptive Methods in Selected European Countries and the United States
Comparison of pharmaceutical and non-drug forms of contraceptives.
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.
Volume 23 Issue 4
Maintaining Procedural Protections for Welfare Recipients: Defining Property for the Due Process Clause
Review of due process and its applicability to benefits litigation. Proposed doctrinal solution in how interprets interests and property.
The Role of Race in Child Custody Decisions between Natural Parents over Biracial Children
Analysis of social trends in custody after divorce of biracial children and the family law approach to race as a factor in judicial decision making
Book Annotations 23.4
Reviews of Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law by Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry (1997) and Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law by Elyn R. Saks and Stephen H. Behnke (1997).
Regulating Prisons of the Future: A Psychological Analysis of Supermax and Solitary Confinement
Indictment of supermax and solitary isolation including legal doctrine, phycological research, policy evaluations, etc.